 "Collecticus" magazine reported in October 2007 that clothes hangers have now become collectible, especially those with a famous company or event advertised across the front.For example, a 1950 Butlins hanger sold for £10.10 in October 2006 within "Collecticus".In 1995, while performing surgery in an airliner at 35,000 feet, orthopedic surgeon Angus Wallace and his fellow doctor Tom Wong used an unfolded coathanger, sterilised with brandy, as a trocar to stiffen a catheter for use as a chest tube to relieve a passenger's pneumothorax.