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Above: Kyser & Rex (Philadelphia) Roller Skating cast-iron mechanical bank, excellent condition retaining bright original paint colors. Sold for $24,000 Oct. 14 sale continued Schroeders’ [...]

Above: Original Yonezawa (Japan) tin windup Diamond Planet Robot, rare variation with blue body and red arms. At 10in high, Diamond Planet is the largest windup robot ever produced. 100% original [...]

Above: Circa-1904 Caille Bros. 5-cent Roulette floor-model slot machine with seven coin-slots. Fresh to the market after being purchased from The Las Vegas Club hotel and casino in the 1970s. The [...]

Above: Single-cylinder cutaway motor for 1916 Model K Indian motorcycle. Condition 9 out of 10. Sold for $6,000 against a broad estimate of $100-$10,000 Select additions to sale included [...]

Above: Masudaya Machine Man robot, est. $50,000-$75,000 Featured: The last and best of Bob Brady’s toys, Jack White’s entire collection of mechanical banks, and the Linda and Curtis Smith [...]

By Steve Butler MENTION A TOOTSIETOY race set to knowledgeable Tootsietoy collectors and most will immediately envision Tootsietoy’s #5081 Speedway Set game. That game consisted of eight #4666 [...]

In Memory of Rodney Abensur Table of Contents East Coast – West Coast – Gulf Coast: Prized Toys and Banks from Three Legendary Collections Unite at Bertoia’s Nov. 17-18 Annual Fall Auction Simon [...]

WHILE AUSTRIA has had its own vehicle makes and models such as Steyr and is the birthplace of ingenious vehicle developers like Ferdinand Porsche, historical car miniatures from Austria have [...]

DENVER, PA – It was playday but it was also payday for those hoping to acquire rare robots and space guns at Morphy’s August 9-10 Toys & Collectibles Auction. The sale took in $1.5 million, [...]