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Fireplace log holder, $55,020, Toomey & Co.
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far All prices include the buyer’s premium by Ken Hall A fireplace log holder created by Marie Zimmerman (1879-1973) sold for $55,020 at an Early 20th Century Design sale held June 4th by…
Collecting Collectoys
by Douglas R. Kelly Louis Marx is never far from my mind. I didn’t know the man, but his company made so many cool and wonderful toys in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s that his name appears on my radar…
Carved American Eagles: America’s First Americana
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor Many Americana objects in collections and museums incorporate the one symbol that the first Congress approved as this country’s emblem: the American Bald Eagle. Not long after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Congress turned…
1940s-era Harbor Petroleum sign, $46,740, Morphy Auctions
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far All prices include the buyer’s premium by Ken Hall A 1940s-era Harbor Petroleum Products single-sided porcelain advertising sign with a seaplane graphic, 39 inches by 35 inches, sold for $46,740 at an…
Peter Max 1960s & 1970s: All-American Art
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor The 1960s and ’70s were all about color. Peter Max Color. Bright, fluid, fantastical, and full of enlightenment. This artist burst on the scene in the beginning of what would become an age of counterculture,…
The Robot Bulldozer, A Flare Product by United Pioneer Company
By Rob Wolfe In the early 1960s people around the world were fascinated with imagining the future that technology could bring. There were many real and Hollywood-created reasons for this. Early in the decade, The Jetsons, the space age…
Stegosaurus fossil, $44.6 million, Sotheby’s
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far All prices include the buyer’s premium by Ken Hall A 150-million-year-old stegosaurus specimen discovered in Colorado in 2022, named “Apex.” 11 feet tall and 27 feet long, sold for $44.6 million at…
Celebrating America’s Semiquincentennial
Everyone knows throwing a party takes time, money, and planning, even more so when the party is for the nation’s 250th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and everyone is invited! On July 4, 2026, America will…
The British Invasion: A Revolution in Music Memorabilia
By Laurence Carpenter The British Invasion of the 1960s was a seismic cultural shift, where a wave of British bands crossed the Atlantic and captured the hearts and minds of American audiences. Other aspects of British culture also became…