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 [...]
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 [...]
SAY “TOY BOATS” THREE times fast and if your tongue doesn’t get completely tied up, scientists say you are definitely in the minority. Now just imagine saying toy boats hundreds of times and being surrounded by one of the most extensive collections of toy boats in the world. That’s what collectors will get treated to, at the Rich Penn Auction [...]
RON MCCRINDELL, one of the great pioneer UK toy collectors, died in August 2011 aged 91. He was well known and well loved by the many who knew him. He was also easy to find, as he was the famed landlord of the ‘John Snow’ pub in Soho for many years. Starting soon after World War II, he was an [...]
VINELAND, NJ – If all the nautical toys in the world were lined up in a single fleet, their captain would surely be Dick Claus, whose magnificent collection of antique boats is being offered in two parts this year by Bertoia Auctions of Vineland, NJ. Park 1 of the Claus collection, a 220-lot array of ships and related toys, will [...]
FOR CENTURIES, La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss Neuchâtel Jura has been regarded as an instrument-making center of excellence, producing precision engineering, clocks, toys and musical boxes of the highest quality, some of which are now exhibited in the famous horology museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The La Chaux-de-Fonds district is also the birthplace of the renowned horologist Pierre Jaquet-Droz, whose three [...]
DENVER, Pa. – An overflow crowd gathered at Morphy Auctions’ gallery on March 17, 2012 to bid on selections from the late Frank Zygmunt Sr.’s personal collection of antique slot, coin-op, gambling and mechanical music machines. The 415-lot auction, which also included early Coca-Cola items and other types of antique advertising, grossed $942,000 (all prices quoted inclusive of 20% buyer’s [...]
The GR Webster collection, arguably the largest and most comprehensive assemblage of toy aircraft ever amassed, is headed for the auction block. A highly decorated Vietnam War pilot, Geoffrey “GR” Webster says his fascination for flying dates back to his childhood and the exposure he had to airplanes as the son of a naval pilot. His interest in 20th-century aircraft [...]
DENVER, Pa. – A wealth of rare antique signs, figures and other promotional items from the golden era of advertising is currently on display at Morphy’s central Pennsylvania gallery, all to be auctioned on Friday and Saturday, April 20-21. The 1,260-lot sale incorporates a fantastic array of signage, with the centerpiece being the revered Coca-Cola advertising collection of the late [...]
ELIZABETHTOWN, KY – The biggest and oldest items from the prestigious Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia will be sold at the museum’s next auction. Today, the museum announced the next auction dates will be March 24 and 25, 2012, at the museum in Elizabethtown, Ky. Proceeds will go to a charitable foundation being set up by the Schmidt family. The [...]
