by Ingrid Floyd TUCKED AWAY IN a corner of Lancaster, PA, is the enchanting National Christmas Center that is sprinkled throughout with toys from the […]

To order: visit www.schifferbooks.com By Katharine Kaye McMillan & Patricia Hart McMillan Almost 400 color images treat readers to dazzling holiday visions that leading designers […]

2800 online bidders battled gallery and phone bidders over European toys and Christmas antiques VINELAND, N.J. – What’s an auctioneer’s first clue that a sale […]

DO YOU REMEMBER Punkin Head? Eaton’s Beauty Dolls? The T. Eaton & Co. at 190 Yonge St. TORONTO Canada? Santa Claus Parades? Yes, Virginia there […]

VINELAND, NJ — Wherever early character toys gather, collectors soon follow. The next destination for both is Bertoia Auctions’ Friday/Saturday March 28-29 auction of toys, […]

DOLPH GOTELLI HAS been playing with his toys for over 60 years. As a young boy with a large imagination, he made toy circuses and […]

VINELAND, NJ – Christmas wishes will be granted early this year for many collectors during Bertoia’s festive Nov. 8-10 toy, train and holiday auction. Day […]

VINELAND, NJ – Many say the holiday season officially begins the day after Thanksgiving, when Christmas parades are held in several major cities across the […]

IN MAY 2012 AN interesting book on German toys aiming at collectors of 19th century German toys was published by the renowned German Swantje-Koehler-Verlag specializing […]

BY KEN FOUST The city toy-stores, those wondrous bazaars of all that is glittering and funny and startling in the latest devices for the amusement […]

“The Games of Christmas, Images of Christmas Past” Book Sharon Haydon, Author Steven Holderman, Graphic Design THINK OF A VICTORIAN or early American Christmas as […]

BY STEVE FULLER, MIAMI ANTIQUE TOY SHOW TUCKED AWAY IN ONE of Maine’s small towns (although with a population of 4916 it is 64th out […]

BY JACK HERBERT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE ALL NOW ADULTS, Santa Claus is still a most welcome figure these days. And being antique toy collectors, […]

This offering will include a wide variety of items including toys of all kinds, games, advertising, folk art, as well as a number of attic […]

AS YOUR CHILDREN open their latest electronic gadgets at Christmas time, do you ever wonder what the cutting edge toys were like almost 100 years […]