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Gavels 'n' Paddles: Ives Railway Lines set, $6,000, Cordier Auctions
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall An Ives 1134 Railway Lines freight set sold for $6,000 at a Toy & Train Auction held July 2nd ...
What's Selling on eBay: September 2017
by Deborah Abernethy and Mike McLeod The following two items were sold on the same day by the same owner who reported these are considered the Holy Grail of sprinkler ...
Gavels 'n' Paddles: Copy of Moby Dick, $9,600, PBA Galleries
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A first American edition copy of Herman Melville’s classic book Moby Dick (or, The Whale) sold for $9,600 at ...
LICENSED! Overstreet Looks at Licensed Comics
Comic Character Collectibles By J.C.Vaughn Almost from the earliest days of comic books, titles licensed from other media have been part of the mix. Early best-sellers such as Bringing Up ...
Gavels 'n' Paddles: Hack Wilson game uniform, $382,812, Goldin Auctions
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall The jersey and pants that Chicago Cubs slugger Hack Wilson wore in a game in 1930 sold for $382,812 ...
Gavels 'n' Paddles: 1915 Ty Cobb baseball card, $432,000, Heritage Auctions
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A 1915 Cracker Jack #30 baseball trading card, one of only three cards known graded PSA Mint 9, sold ...
Great Collections: September 2017
J. Pierpont Morgan Hartford native John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), founder of a banking dynasty still in operation today, was one of the great financial figures of the late nineteenth and ...
Gavels 'n' Paddles: Uncut sheet, baseball cards, $32,200, Blackwell Auctions
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall An uncut sheet of 110 Topps baseball cards from 1956 sold for $32,200 at an Americana Auction held June ...
Gavels 'n' Paddles: Emerald and diamond ring, $5.512 million, Christie’s
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall An emerald and diamond ring by Raymond Yard, set with an octagonal step-cut emerald of about 18.04 carats, sold ...
Publisher's Corner: September 2017
Sorting Out the China by Maxine Carter-Lome Bone China, Fine China, Porcelain; then there is Soft Paste, Hard Paste, Ivory China, Bone Porcelain... People unfamiliar with the distinction use the ...
Great Collections: August 2017
Historic Deerfield's Textiles Collection A conversation with David E. (Ned) Lazaro, Curator of Textiles Please give us an overall sense of Historic Deerfield's Textiles, Clothing, and Embroidery Collection. Historic Deerfield's ...
Collecting with Jeff: August 2017
Cash Registers By Jeff Figler It always amazes me that, when I go to check out at a store, when I give the cashier the payment, that the person will ...
