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A felt-lined box of tarnished silverware and stacks of dusty board games. That wasn’t all. There were action figures, Legos, Lincoln Logs, and the ubiquitous Magic Eight Ball, which answered every question with: Ask Again Later. An old Nintendo Gameboy, and a Texas Instruments word processor. A pleather cowboy gun-belt. Wax Calavera skulls for the Day of the Dead. A Nikon digital camera, in decent shape. Rusty old tools. Tins full of assorted colored beads, marbles, rubber bands, and, oddly enough, a basket full of used cell phones. But nothing interested him until a black shimmer caught his eye among rows of dented matchbox cars and piles of jacks.