A number of notable collections that hit the auction block in 2021 had blue-chip pieces that happy collectors were eager to snap up, including comics, toys, pinback sports buttons, folk art, pinball machines and more, with some pieces even setting new world records:Paul Cole Collection of Toys and TrainsThe exceptional 50-year collection of American and European trains, early...
The normal fare offered by comic books in the 1940s was fantasy, science fiction, superheroes, hard-boiled detectives and rough-and-tumble cowboys and gunslingers, but also a lesser-known genre: real-life heroes — the mavens of medicine.True adventure comic books spun off of the highly successful superheroes’ genre, and were presented in numerous innovative titles. Each booklet was chock-full of...
DOWNINGTOWN, PA - Pook & Pook will ring in the New Year by auctioning a number of rare and important works of American folk art and fraktur, as well as a large group of tall case clocks and fine art in its wide-ranging Americana & International sale January 13 and 14.Session 1 on Thursday starts at 6 p.m. EST and...
A yellowing picture that a Massachusetts man bought at an estate sale for $30 is exciting the art world, as it is believed to be a rare work by renowned German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer that could be worth tens of millions.A panel of experts that gathered earlier this month at the British Museum in London to...
While it might only come to the front of the wearable line between Thanksgiving and Christmas, hunting holiday-themed jewelry all year long is a pastime for many collectors. I count myself among them with a penchant for Santa Claus brooches, but I also have a few Christmas tree pins and other assorted goodies in my holiday stash....
He may look like jolly old St. Nick with his snow white hair and flowing beard, but the character known as Belsnickle is a crotchety version of Santa Claus. Stern-looking and brandishing a switch instead of a sack full of toys, Belsnickle is like the dark side of Santa incarnate. Belsnickle figures, coveted Christmas collectibles that grace...
The best part of Christmas has nothing to do with presents – not the ones we give nor the ones we receive. We’re not suggesting Santa skip anyone this year, because that would be silly, especially after all those wonderful letters sent to the North Pole. What we are suggesting is that the best part of the...
Robert L. May was down in the dumps. It was early 1939 and the life May was living was not what he had hoped for.A copywriter for the retail and catalog giant Montgomery Ward in Chicago, May (1905-1976) was almost 35, heavily in debt and grinding out catalog copy. “Instead of writing the great American novel, as...
There is a scene in the 1965 holiday classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas, when Charlie and Linus go shopping for the biggest aluminum Christmas tree Lucy asks them to get that’s “maybe painted pink.” They end up at a lot filled with aluminum trees in bright colors of violet, red, yellow, blue and the requested pink. There in the middle of those dazzling technicolor creations is...
UNION, IL - Over the course of his 50 years of collecting, Howard Hazelcorn amassed a world-class collection over more than 30 fields of collectibles. But when it came to collecting phonographs, Hazelcorn literally wrote the book on it. In fact, he wrote several books. He spent decades researching Columbia and its phonographs and other products, and built the...
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