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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Amanda Sheriff The Silver Age of comics, which ran from approximately the mid-1950s to 1970, is noted as a transitional time for the medium. Many new characters were created and several from the Golden Age (the late 1930s through the 1940s)…
