“I gotta show you something,” says Bob Cairl. “We got it at our last dig at Pompeii.”
“Oh, Bob ,” cries his wife, Jane, as Bob charts a course through the meticulously arranged Toledo Architectural Artifacts, a welcome contrast to the cramped antique stores so frequently squeezed into dusty city corners.
“When you see it, you’ll think that’s what it is,” he promises before revealing a tile mosaic, bearing — in his defense — a marked similarity to the classic Roman style of antiquity…