Columns

These sought-after sections offer expert auction analysis, cultural commentary, and more, adding depth, variety, and a personal touch to every issue. Columns include Gavels ’n’ Paddles, Psychology of Collecting, The Beat, Pop Culture Collecting, Toys from the Attic, and Civil War Collector.

April 30, 2019 / Antiques Peek, bowls, Columns, crystal, dishes, Drinking Glasses, flint glass, Glass, glassware, Jessica Kosinski, lead, Lead Crystal, Lead Oxide, Molten Glass, Wine Glasses

Antiques Peek: April 2019

I Can See Clearly Now By Jessica Kosinski Glassware is commonplace in today’s society. We all have drinking glasses, wine ...

April 29, 2019 / Ailment, Amputation Saw, Blood Pressure, Civil War, Columns, Doc, Doctor, Doctor's Bag, Forceps, House Call, illness, Lancet, Maxine Carter-Lome, Medicine, Modern Medicine, Reflex Hammer, Revolutionary War, Scalpel, Stethoscope, Syringe, Talk of the Trade, Thermometer

Publisher’s Corner: May 2019

Inside the Doctor’s Bag By Maxine Carter Lome For those of us old enough to remember when doctors made house ...

April 24, 2019 / Allaire Collection, Ancient Glass, Art Glass, Blown glass, Carole Allaire, Columns, Facon de Venise, Frankish Glass, Glass, Medieval Glass, Merovingian Glass, modern studio glass, Pressed glass, Roman Glass, Venetian Glass

Great Collections: April 2019

Allaire Collection of Ancient Glass When it comes to sharing information on the very foundation of glass form, function, and ...

April 22, 2019 / Antique & Collectible News, Blown glass, blown molds, Columns, Crafts, craftsmen, crystal, Cut Crystal, Cut Glass, Expert Insights, Glass, glassware, Kary Pardy, Molded glass, Pressed glass

Collecting the Tools of the Trade: Glass Molds

Exploring Antique Technologies by Kary Pardy Every object holds clues as to how it was made, with some being more ...

Certified Video Games Enter the Marketplace in Force

Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn In January 2019, Heritage Auctions began offering video games certified by third-party independent grading ...

What’s Selling on eBay: April 2019

By Deborah Abernethy and Mike McLeod $5,956 (32 bids, 8 bidders): Vintage Huffy Radio Bike in Great Original Condition. Huffy ...

April 4, 2019 / Atlanta, Bronze Medal, Columns, Gavels n Paddles, Genoble, Gold Medal, Ken Hall, Lake Placid, medals, Online Auction, Rio, RR Auction, Silver Medal, Summer Olympics, Torch, Winter Olympics

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Winter Olympics torch, $231,000, RR Auctions

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics torch sold for $231,000 ...

April 1, 2019 / Annual Issue, Columns, decorative, Glass, Glass Beads, glass techniques, Maxine Carter-Lome, Roman period, Style, Talk of the Trade, The Allaire Collection, Volcanic Glass, wealth

Publisher’s Corner: April 2019

The Allure of Glass 18 Years Later by Maxine Carter-Lome For 18 years the Journal of Antiques & Collectibles has ...

March 28, 2019 / Columns, Dollar, Dollar coin, Gavels n Paddles, Heritage Auctions, Platinum, US Trade Dollar Coin, USD

Gavels 'n' Paddles: 1885 U.S Trade dollar, $3.96 million, Heritage

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall The finest-known 1885 U.S. Trade dollar coin, graded PR66, ...

March 27, 2019 / ale, Art Deco, Bakelite, Beer Tray, Black Bellied Plover, City Brewery, colonial, Columns, decoy, Devorah Abernethy, eBay, George Washington, Handkerchief, Hunting, Lure, Map Radio, Memorial, Mike McLeod, Porter, Radio, Raymond Loewy, Shorebird, Steuben Brew, vintage, What's Selling on eBay

What’s Selling on eBay: March 2019

By Deborah Abernethy and Mike McLeod $2,293 (42 bids, 11 bidders): Vintage Raymond Loewy Old Antique Colonial Globe Art Deco ...

Antiques Peek: March 2019

Get Rid of Those Nasty Wrinkles By Jessica Kosinski Have you ever had a pressing issue to attend to? Most ...

March 20, 2019 / Antique Toys, Bulls and Bears, clockwork, Columns, Ferris wheel, Game, Gavels n Paddles, Ken Hall, McLoughlin Bros, Pook & Pook Inc, Signs, trade sign, Wall Street

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Bulls and Bears toy game, $20,740, Pook & Pook, Inc.

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A scarce McLoughlin Bros. Bulls and Bears – The ...

March 14, 2019 / CollectorCorkscrews.com, Columns, Corks, Corkscrew, Decoration, Gavels n Paddles, Japanning, Ken Hall, mechanical corkscrew

Gavels 'n' Paddles: English Thomason corkscrew, $23,244, CollectorCorkscrews.com

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall An English “manufactured” Thomason mechanical corkscrew, with fine handcrafted ...

March 11, 2019 / book collection, Collecting, Columns, cook, cookbooks, Cooking, food culture, food history, Guinness Book of World Records, Guinness Record, Little Suzy Homemaker, Maxine Carter-Lome, reading, Sue Jimenez, Time-life books

Great Collections: March 2019

For the Love of Cooking Sue Jimenez, a retired forensic anthropologist who grew up in Toronto but has called Albuquerque, ...

March 9, 2019 / Black Panther, Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, Columns, DC Comics, Fantastic Four, Flash, Gavels n Paddles, Incredible Hulk, Ken Hall, Marvel Comics, silver age, The Hulk, Toys & Comics, Wolverine

Gavels 'n' Paddles: DC Comics Flash #105, $20,000, Bruneau & Co.

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A copy of DC Comics Flash #105 (Feb.-Mar. 1959), ...

March 4, 2019 / Bertoia Auctions, Columns, Fall Auction, Gavels n Paddles, Ken Hall, Mechanical, toys, vintage toys

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Witch Atop Mechanical Cat, $21,600, Bertoia Auctions

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A large witch atop a mechanical black cat on ...

March 1, 2019 / Art, Auction House, Bernardino Luini, Bidding, Christie's, Columns, Cultural, Journey, King Louis XII, Leonardo da Vinci, Money, Paint, Painting, Pontus Silfverstolpe, Salvator Mundi, Tips, , Trends

Tips and Trends: March 2019

The Price of Art and its Journey By Pontus Silfverstolpe When I was a child, I was told it was ...

February 28, 2019 / Columns, Happy, Homemaker, Housekeeping Monthly, matriarch, Maxine Carter-Lome, mother, Publisher, Talk of the Trade, The Good Wifes Guide, throwback, Wife

Publishers Corner: March 2019

The Happy Homemaker by Maxine Carter-Lome The term “Happy Homemaker” is a 1950s throwback to a time when housewives took ...

February 28, 2019 / Antique & Collectible News, Columns, destination, Earth, Expert Insights, globes, International, Kary Pardy, national, New World, scientific progress, time capsule, Wooden Axis, worldwide

As the World Turns On Its Wooden Axis

Exploring Antique Technologies By Kary Pardy You close your eyes, give the globe a hard spin, and jab your finger ...

February 27, 2019 / book collection, Books, Columns, Correspondence, democracy, Forest Retreat, John Adams, knowledge, letter, letters, Libraries, Library, Maxine Carter-Lome, Monticello, Museum, reader, reading, Thomas Jefferson

Great Collections: February 2019

Thomas Jefferson’s Books By Maxine Carter-Lome “I cannot live without books.” - Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams, ...

February 26, 2019 / Americana, Bank, Bottles, brass, Coca Cola, Coke, Cola, Columns, Deborah Abernethy, Factory, Felt Hat, Hat, Hunter, lion, Locomotive, Mike McLeod, Ship, soda, soda bottle, Steam Whistle, Three Point Hat, toy, Tricorne, What's Selling on eBay, Whistle, wild game