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Above: J & E Stevens ‘Two Frogs’ cast-iron mechanical bank, estimate $8,000-$12,000. Featured: Vintage sports cards and unopened Topps wax packs, early video games and consoles, comics, 1950s [...]

Above: one of only five CGC 9.6 copies in existence and one of only three in its grade to have been offered for public sale in the past 10 years. Provenance: John B. Goodrich collection. [...]

Featured: Sinclair double-sided ‘airplane’ service station sign, new/old stock Musgo Gasoline ‘Michigan’s Mile Maker’ one-piece baked gas pump globe with Native American graphic DENVER, Pa. – The [...]

In Memory of David Finn The Schoenhut Humpty Dumpty Circus Collection of Keith Kaonis will be Auctioned at Theriault’s Marquis Event on July 31, 2023 The Art Of Transportation – Part 2 By Rick [...]

ON A COLD FEBRUARY day in 1902, Fritz Meinecke briskly walked into the Philadelphia office of Albert Schoenhut and plunked a wooden toy clown or animal onto Albert’s desk. We don’t know the [...]

The background of the Rick Ralston collection, Art of Transportation By Rick Ralston COMING FROM Hawaii, standing in line at Brimfield at 6:30 AM, 45 degrees felt chilly. My hands were wrapped [...]

Four lots, alone, sold for a combined $1.1M; top-lot Wasatch Gasoline sign commanded $324K DENVER, PA – The energy was palpable at Morphy’s March 21- 23 Automobilia, Petroliana & [...]

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Rare-variation Watling ‘Cupid’ slot machine made a love connection at $72,000; while Esmeralda fortune teller defied prognostications to earn a hefty $66,000 DENVER, PA – Morphy Auctions’ lively [...]

Text and photos by Henry I. Kurtz DURING A VISIT to Polk’s Hobby Shop in New York City in 1950, I came upon some early U.S. Cavalry by Dr. Ralph Bussler, a Massachusett’s osteopath turned model [...]