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Above: Arcade flat-top Yellow Cab bank, $2,500-$3,500. Featured: Hubley Packard Straight Eight sedan, many fine Arcade vehicles & taxi banks; mechanical banks & doorstops; Sturditoy & [...]

Above: Exceedingly rare circa 1902-1904 Caille Bros Triple Eclipse upright musical slot machine incorporating three separate machines to accept 5 cents, 50 cents, and 5 cents, respectively. [...]

ABOVE:The top lot of the three-day sale was this stunning and rare Wasatch Gasoline 48-inch-diameter porcelain service station sign, which sold for $324,000 against an estimate of [...]

Rudd Trowbridge’s Mechanical Banks & Bell Toys, and Phil and Joan Steel’s Tin Windups are Prestigious Headliners at Bertoia’s March 24-25 Signature Sale Collecting Spirit in Full Bloom at [...]

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By Steve Butler IFE SAVERS WERE introduced in 1912 and were only one flavor, peppermint. The best selling roll of five fruit flavors appeared in 1935. Sometime in the interim at least an orange [...]

By Don Heim THE TRANSVAAL MONEY BOX, made in1895 by John Harper Ltd., Willenhall Staffordshire, England, who made all kinds of decorative iron goods beginning in the 1800s thru at least 1953 when [...]

MAY IS A GREAT MONTH for the collecting spirit to burst into full bloom. Warm weather, blue skies and the urge to get out & about strikes us all. That’s when collectors like the late Don [...]

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THIS SMALL TOOTSIETOY toy set, which was actually intended as a gag gift, made a limited appearance in the September 2019 issue of this magazine. It and several other toys and boxes were [...]