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 [...]
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 [...]
DONALD KAUFMAN (1930-2009) didn’t collect toys with a finish line as the objective. He relished every moment of the nearly six-decade journey he embarked upon in 1950 with the $4 purchase of an Arcade Red Baby truck. The same passion for automotive forms that had been ignited in him as a young man selling automobiles “off the curbstone” seemed to [...]
VINELAND, N.J. – It’s doubtful that even a crystal ball could have been more accurate than Bertoia Auctions’ experts who predicted the Donald Kaufman auction series would finish at around $12 million. As the record now shows, with the hammering of the last lot in the fifth and final auction to disperse the fabled collection, held on April 15-16, 2011, [...]
DENVER, PA – This year, collectors won’t have to wait until Christmas to add a great toy, train or Barbie doll to their shelf or showcase. The second session of Morphy’s December 10-11 antiques auction can make that happen two weeks early — if you’re the winning bidder on any of approximately 850 choice lots. There will be two separate [...]
BY MIKE TAYLOR I recently restored three pedal cars and had them sitting on the floor in the living room, primarily because there was no good place to showcase them. I didn’t want them to get bumped with the vacuum cleaner or slobbered on by our dogs, so I had to come up with something better and decided to fabricate [...]
