John Amalfitano, of Dunellen, N.J., has collected a lot of old stuff, but no item stranger than the chicken egg on which a message was written back in 1951. Whoever wrote that message was a mystery. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports on how Amalfitano turned to Facebook to crack the case.

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