COLUMBIA, PA – Look around you – on your desk, in your office, your grandchild’s playroom, perhaps even in the parking meter you placed a quarter in this morning—and you will find a device with a clockwork mechanism. The National Watch & Clock Museum recently opened an exhibit of the clockwork mechanism, a device that has greatly influenced the operation [...]
The year was 1971. Richard Nixon was in the White House. The average American earned $10,600 per year and lived in a house costing around $25,000. A brand new Datsun 1200 sports coupe could be purchased for around $1,865, its gas tank filled for a mere $4.20. It was also a year bursting with invention and innovation. In 1971, Fed [...]
BY DIANA TABIN The most talked about purchase at the October 2010 Antique-Collectible Toy & Doll Show was the sale of the actual show. Collectors have always known that the best of the best is available at this event, a fact proven once again by the sale of the show itself. Talk about finding a rare gem, mint in the [...]
BY PATRICK-JAMES CAMPBELL FTER 27 YEARS AND 51 great shows, Bruce & Dee Beimers have decided to retire from running the Circus Maximus Antique Toy & Collectible Show in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They now plan on being on the other side of the table; selling many of the items they have accumulated after all those years. (But I’ll bet they’ll be [...]
BY NORMAN SCHAUT Three hours before the box office opened on March 22, 1986 an anxious line stretched down the boardwalk for eight city blocks and continued to build until all attendance records for the huge convention center were broken. ‘Atlantique City’ didn’t grow into the largest indoor antique and collectibles fair in the world, it started that way, thanks [...]
