MELVIN AND ANNE GETLAN have spent more than 40 years meticulously building perhaps the finest collection of coin-operated devices in America. And 350 of their items will comprise much of the Victorian Casino Antiques Auction in Las Vegas on May 4th, 5th and 6th. The fact that the Getlan Collection features the very best in coin-operated gambling, vending, arcade and [...]
FAIRFIELD, MAINE, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2011. For three days at the close of November in rural Maine, as many are thinking of holiday preparations, the staff at James D. Julia was immersed in an auction event that showcased an outstanding array of quality antiques to contemporary objects d’art. Combining the efforts of Julia’s advertising, toy & doll division head Andrew [...]
BY STEVE BUTLER ON A MUCH TOO seldom occasion, a collector may encounter things with tags, not necessarily price tags although they can be interesting. Instead, this tome is about things with tags that indicate a time, place, event or other circumstance(s) under which the toy was made, issued and/or acquired all not necessarily reflecting the price. As examples of [...]
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A Baltimore curiosity is going on the auction block. The Baltimore Antique Toy Museum has closed its doors. Its contents: dollhouses and accessories, countless games, books and toys are in need of new caretakers. These simple yet elegant playthings, from a time long gone, enthralled children back then as an Xbox 360 does today. Their beauty is their simplicity, time [...]
PITTSBURGH – Armchair generals and commanders of upscale bathtub fleets worldwide will show their firepower over the weekend of June 2-3 during a very special Old Toy Soldier Auctions event containing 1,200+ lots from several choice collections. Headlining the auction are soldiers from the collection of the late K. Warren Mitchell, plus the Bob Bailey collection of prewar Britains, and [...]
ZIONSVILLE, Ind. – Morphy Auctions has been chosen to auction the vast collection of antique and vintage toys, advertising items and other amusements belonging to Carter’s Toy Museum in Zionsville, Indiana. The Oct. 5-6 auction will be an uncataloged live event produced and conducted by Morphy’s at the Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Indiana. There will be no provision [...]
FREDERICK, Md. – Ask any regular who attends auctions conducted by Mosby & Co., and they’ll tell you what the Maryland-based company is best known for: everything. Owner Keith Spurgeon makes a point of personally selecting only the most interesting, best-quality pieces from dozens of collecting categories for his well-attended sales. Spurgeon’s April 28 Spring Antiques Auction, which will be [...]
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WHETHER IT WAS $25 for a novice collector’s very first collectible or tens of thousands of dollars for any number of rare and highly prized items, the full house in attendance at Victorian Casino Antiques Winter Auction held on January 14th and 15th was impressed, enthusiastic and very busy. Particularly strong sales dominated slot machines and other coin-op devices. Some [...]
