WILLIAMSPORT, IN – TOYS! Stout Auctions has great toys for our next auction, held February 24-25, 2012 at our Williamsport, Indiana, gallery, beginning at 10AM Eastern each day. Our auction includes a large and unbelievable black memorabilia collection that is primarily tin. Many are black Americana items, about a third include their original boxes. This auction includes more Buddy L [...]
VINELAND, N.J. – You never know what will come through the doors of Bertoia Auctions’ spacious, fully showcased New Jersey gallery. Sometimes a toy is brought in that can be slotted into the next appropriate sale without delay. Other times, a consignor is better served by letting the toy wait to be included in a future sale with other toys [...]
HERSHEY, PA – The economy is thriving amongst toy and coin-op collectors, according to USA Theatres, producers of the upcoming American Antique Toy & Coin-Op Show, who just announced that buyers will be coming from overseas to seek out American made antique toys and coin-operated machines. “We have received several emails from collectors overseas who will be attending the show,” [...]
The new issue of Antique Toy World Magazine is now available. Just look what’s inside! Brent H. Bass Bertoia to Auction Richard T. Claus Collectionof Nautical Toys and Boats in 2012 The Outstanding Pedal Car and Toy Collection of Ed and Christy Ramsey will be Sold March 30-April 1 by Showtime Auction Services Thrifty Tom’s Jigger Bank by Sy Schreckinger [...]
DENVER, Pa. – More than 2,000 lots of antique toys, trains, advertising and rare comics are primed and ready to make their appearance Feb. 9-11 in Morphy Auctions’ first sale of 2012. All forms of bidding will be available, including live via the Internet, with start times set for 10 a.m. on Thursday and Friday, and 9 a.m. for the [...]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The outstanding lifetime pedal car and toy collection of Ed and Christy Ramsey will headline a massive, three-day auction slated for Mar. 30-Apr. 1 by Showtime Auction Services, at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor. Also offered will be the 35-year collection of Al and Peg Araiza, collectors in many categories. The first day [...]
IN A STORMING FINISH to the Vectis 2011 Military, Civilian Figures, Equipment and Accessories sale season it was yet again the plastics sections which led the way, achieving some stunning prices. A Trojan “Half Moon” display card made £1100, 2 x uncatalogued Trojan half sets £2600 and £2500 apiece, a scarce issue boxed Windmill by FG Taylor made an amazing [...]
BY JACK HERBERT AMONG the very earliest of American-made toys are the rarely seen tinplate Riverboats designed and manufactured by such firms as Althof Bergmann and Francis Field & Francis in the 1860s and 70s. They are quite fragile by now, of course, which may account for the scarcity of some of them which were not originally made of cast [...]
BY STEVE BUTLER UNFORTUNATELY, BOXED SETS tend to be stored away, out of sight and out of mind – places where they can’t be truly enjoyed. On the bottom shelf of my center storage cabinet is the home for the #375 Courtland DO-IT YOURSELF set pictured herein. I was looking for a subject for my next ATW article (this one) [...]
BY JACK HERBERT EVERY ONCE IN A BLUE MOON a good reader of this magazine will send me a set of pictures and a fact sheet for a toy I never knew even existed. Who sez mail can’t occasionally be exciting? Here are two such toys that have come my way recently. They are both unique, both inordinately scarce, and [...]
