NEW HOPE, PA – Antique toy expert and Antiques Roadshow senior appraiser Noel Barrett hosted a Nov. 18-19 auction featuring clockwork toys and automata from the Frank Mohr collection. The sale also included early advertising signs and toys from the personal collection of Bill Powell, a Tennessee-based dealer known for his well-cultivated taste in antiques of many types. The auction [...]
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 [...]
FAIRFIELD, MAINE, November 30, 2011. Over the past 40 years, James D. Julia Auctioneers have established themselves as one of the leading auction houses the world over. During that time, their company has evolved into four separate divisions, each of which has established their prowess. Their firearms division is unquestionably by far the leader in the world today for rare [...]
HAGERSTOWN, Md. – Many would say that Matt Protos, owner of Old Town Auctions, takes a risk by not allowing reserves on any of the items entered in his auctions, but his gamble has been paying off nicely and proving the naysayers wrong. The company’s June 11-12 toy and advertising auction drew 300 live bidders, hundreds of absentee and phone [...]
When ever I came across Bill Powell’s booth at an antique show I knew I was going to see some of the most exciting things in the show – Bill has one of the great “eyes” in the business – whether it is a great trade or tin sign, a fabulous store fixture, or a lithographed paper-on-wood toy – it [...]
ACCORDING TO Peter Sidlow, President of Victorian Casino Antiques, the company will hold a live auction session consisting of 250 uncatalogued lots at 11:00 am, on Friday October 14th, 2011, for the live audience only. During this session, there will be no Internet, telephone, or absentee bidding allowed. The remaining sessions on Friday afternoon, beginning at 2:00 pm and both [...]
ANN ARBOR, MICH.– The lifetime country store, advertising and toy collection of Mike and Colleen Empey will headline a major auction slated for the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 2 by Showtime Auctions. The event will be held at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor. Hundreds of additional, fresh-to-the-market items from other consignors will also be sold. The list [...]
ANN ARBOR, MICH. – A magnificent Rock Island Railroad reverse glass sign, made in 1890 by an employee of the firm who fashioned reverse glass lamp shades for the Pullman cars, sold for $165,000 at an auction held April 1-3 by Showtime Auctions, at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds. The 54 inch by 43 inch piece was beautifully housed in [...]
The 40-year collection of antique advertising tins, signs, store displays and promotional items amassed by Chicago design executives David and Marcia Hirsch made $560,000 (inclusive of 15% buyer’s premium) in a Nov. 19-20 auction held at Dan Morphy’s gallery in Lancaster County, Pa. More than half of the articles offered in the 1,520-lot sale pertained to tobacco, with as many [...]
THIS SPRING Rich Penn Auctions gives new meaning to Spring Color. This May the explosion of color will come from the hundreds of neon clocks, lights and motion advertising signs from the Wayne and Shirley Woodrum lifetime collection. Rich Penn Auctions will sell this incredible collection, without reserve, during a great three day auction event. Held May 5, 6 & [...]
