Rich Penn Auctions: History Repeats Itself
YES IT DOES. History will repeat itself at the Rich Penn Auction event, November 4-6, in Waterloo, IA. This exceptional auction includes some of the very best advertising you’ll see in decades. [...]
Morphy’s hits a high note with $2.3M sale of renowned Henri Krijnen collection of mechanical music machines
Pictured: Gebroeders Decap dance organ with robot musician figures, Belgium, 1963. Sold for $350,550 against an estimate of $100,000-$200,000 Owner of Florida toy museum pays $350,550 for [...]
Milestone to host diverse Oct. 15 auction of classic cars and rare parts, automotive and Coca-Cola advertising, coin-ops, antiques, decorative art and collectibles
Pictured: 1936 Packard 1407 Coupe, $120,000-$150,000 740-lot sale features the many fascinating collections of late Virginia businessman Mark Smith WILLOUGHBY, Ohio – When the doors open to [...]
Antique toys are on a roll at Milestone Auctions, with a fresh offering ready to impress on Sept. 24
Mark Smith collection of rare automotive and other vintage toys is joined by select additional consignments ABOVE: Duesenberg silver No. 7 gas-powered tether, $4,000-$6,000 WILLOUGHBY, Ohio – If [...]
Dolce Vita on Wheels: Anticomondo presents a fine collection of tin car rarities from Rome
THIS IS GOING to be a hot summer: Anticomondo (Germany) has just set to print a special catalogue about a spectacular automobilia-collection coming from the Italian capital. The temperature is [...]
A Spring in your Step – Highlights from Auction Team Breker May 14, 2022
Above: Live-steam model of a Fowler showman’s engine, “Katharine”, by John Folder, Leeds. Sold: 6.734 € / $ 7,003. AUCTION TEAM BREKER’S second outing into the world of antique and collectable [...]
Morphy’s to auction premier Henri Krijnen mechanical music collection, Sept. 9-10, featuring spectacular dance organs, orchestrions, automata, fully functional Muller antique carousel
Morphy’s CEO Tom Tolworthy comments: “Not since Sotheby’s 2012 sale of the Milhous Collection have so many rare and exceptional orchestrions come to the auction marketplace.” DENVER, Pa. – The [...]
Bertoia’s to auction long-held Bill and Stevie Weart antique toy collection in special Sept. 8-9 Signature Auction
Noted collectors for several decades, the Wearts also authored ‘Cast Iron Automotive Toys,’ a now-classic reference book about a category that was of particular interest to them VINELAND, N.J. – [...]
Morphy’s serves up rare soda fountain, soda pop and other antique advertising in colorful August 23-25 auction series
Sensational 19th-century soda fountain front and backbar with lighted fountain and marble soda dispenser expected to sell for $60,000-$100,000 DENVER, Pa. – Just as nightclubs are today’s social [...]