As a boy, Victor Bonutto would press his face to the plate-glass window of his local fishing tackle shop and fix his eyes on not the newest, but the oldest rods and reels. “The seed was sown. I ...

She pulls the next one from the pile, a white plate with the grey, circa 1930s with an art-deco logo of the famed 20th Century Limited train that pulled out of Grand Central from 1902 to 1967.