Yet the Web can be very useful for finding obscure items.

I scanned through the rest of the news, found an obscure item at the very end.

A few special mail order catalogues offer these obscure items.

An obscure item on an inner page of the daily newspaper was responsible for The Shadow's decision.

Lots of new taxes and fees on obscure items were tucked away in both the state budget and the plan for the city.

How often do you encourage a reporter to go after an obscure item that might be representative of a larger, interesting phenomenon?

Here are some of the more obscure and bizarre items gleaned from half a dozen of the July issues.

The best places to look for obscure items, of course, are markets in Asian neigborhoods.

"Without those obscure items, even the best gamers would find the further battles of this game a nightmare."

A relative does it every year and I've had some really obscure items.