One Man's Treasure

There's nothing like a stockpile of 150-year-old glass eyeballs to help see a future in buying and selling vintage things.

Today, those artificial eyeballs from the Civil War are among the first things a would-be customer spots when he or she enters Rick's Trading Post in Fort Myers. You can't miss them. They're in a box and staring right back at you.

To the right is a 1930 Texaco Fire Chief gasoline pump. Nearby is a never-used 1935 outboard boat motor — once on display in a Sears, Roebuck in Chicago. Toward the back of the store is a museum, where items with genuine historic value are kept and sometimes sold.