How to make your Thanksgiving look good.H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty ImagesWhy make the turkey the star of your Thanksgiving show when you can wow family and friends with just the right vintage flair? Ruby Lane, the world’s largest curated online marketplace for high-quality vintage collectibles and antiques, has just the right festive furnishings to create the perfect dazzling...
If you run into Terry Kovel this week, wish her a happy birthday. The Grande Dame of Antiques, as her friends at Antique Trader like to call her, turns 94 on Thursday, October 27. Terry is one of our favorite people in the hobby, and for good reason. She and her late husband, Ralph, have long played a...
There once was a time when mere pocket change could buy you an entire afternoon of entertainment. By simply dropping a penny, nickel or quarter into the slot of a coin-operated machine, turn-of-the-century fun seekers could have their fortunes told, watch primitive motion pictures, listen to rhapsodic tunes from a mechanical band, or try their luck at...
A Michigan-based photography dealer has been charged with defrauding elderly collectors out an estimated $1.6 million in a scheme where she allegedly faked serious illness and created phony employees, all to cheat consignors.Wendy Halsted Beard of the Wendy Halsted Gallery in Birmingham, a suburb of Detroit, was charged with wire fraud and bank fraud in a U.S....
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If you’re a lover of antiques, you won’t be surprised to hear that vintage vacuum cleaners have gained considerable retro appeal in the past decade. Besides making beautiful display items, the irresistible story behind these favored appliances has added to their charm as a collector’s item over the years. The transformation timeline of the vacuum cleaner as...
If you were a child in the U.S. anywhere from around 1950 to 1990 and dreamed of being a princess, Superman, GI Joe, an astronaut, Barbie, a spooky monster or any character you watched on TV, you could make your dream come true each Halloween for less than $5. And for that amount, you’d get what you...
American artist and illustrator Robert McGinnis has created more than 1,200 memorable paperback book covers as well as several iconic movie posters, but it was his original movie poster illustration for the 1965 James Bond classic that left bidders shaken and stirred.The original illustration for Thunderball (11-7/8 x 18-5/8 inches) sold for $275,000 in robust bidding at Heritage...
Fine glass paperweights, created to keep papers from flying about in drafty rooms, are among the most popular collectibles. Early ones were likely any eye-catching pebbles that came to hand. As letter writing became increasingly popular, however, members of the European upper class sought more appealing weights to grace their lavish desk sets.In response, glassworkers created shiny,...
Like most collectors, I own several items I don’t ever intend to sell. Among my treasured cache are more Napier jewelry designs from the 1950s than any other timeframe. This includes one of my very first antique shop jewelry purchases in the 1990s, an outstanding Napier silver plated Maltese cross necklace with powder blue rhinestones. It’s one...
More than a decade after the Melvins‘ Kurt Cobain–decorated 1972 Dodge van was listed on eBay, the “Melvan” is...
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