Celebrity movie critic and vintage film scholar’s collection, spanning Hollywood blockbusters and lesser-known screen gems, to be sold Nov. 29-30 in Dallas. Read More +
Leonard Maltin opens collection to vintage movie poster auction
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Ives Hippodrome clockwork toy may carry away $30,000 in live, online auction
A multimillion-dollar three-day dual auction extravaganza is planned Nov. 28-30, 2012, in Fairfield, Maine. The back-to-back cataloged auctions are filled with two full days of fine glass and lamps followed by toys, dolls, antique advertising, coin-op, music machines, salesman samples and more. Read More +
Corporations hiring archivists to gather vintage advertising, historical artifacts
Chasing branded antiques and collectibles in attics, antique malls and on eBay is opening up a whole new collecting niche for corporate archivists charged with rescuing a company’s nostalgic past from the dust bin of history. Read More +
Original Mid-Century Modern Posters on display through Nov. 21
The prosperous World War II postwar era created a veritable “poster boom” that had two new and distinct Modern styles, one consumer and one corporate. Read More +
Hake’s 207th memorabilia auction offering rare ‘Americanize America’ button
With a diversity seldom matched in other venues, Hake’s Americana & Collectibles’ 207th auction holds nearly 3,000 items in more than 200 collecting categories; the online event closes Nov. 13-15, 2012. Read More +
Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know: Coin-Op Antiques
Did you know artifacts show coin-operated machines existed as far back as the 1st century A.D.? Here’s everything you want to know about coin-op antiques. Read More +
Ocean liner collection comes to auction after 30 years
An important collection of Ocean Liner artifacts and ephemera amassed over a thirty-year period may set a few records when it’s offered Oct. 21. Never offered at auction before, this important single owner collection includes, vintage full-size life rings from such ships as RMS Queen Mary, RMS Mauretania, SS Leonardo Da Vinci, SS France, SS America, Caronia, SS Leviathan, SS President Cleveland, MV Noordam and many others. Read More +
Prologue Books releasing 400 vintage pulp ebooks by year’s end
Vintage pulp paperback collectors will be pleased to learn Prologue Books is scheduled to release more than 400 ebook titles in crime, science fiction, fantasy and western by the end of 2012. Authors include Edgar Award-winning William Campbell Gault, Max Brand, Hope Mirrlees and Vin Packer. Read More +
Welcome to the hobby of antique bottle collecting
Bottle expert Michael Polak joins Antique Trader as a columnist on issues important to bottle collectors. Known as the author of “The Bottle Bible” Polak has a long history in the hobby and will share news from bottle clubs shows and sales, upcoming auctions and pricing results and ongoing bottle hobby events. He kicks off with a few antique bottles from Tonopah and Goldfield, Nev. Read More +
Antique banknote, coin and scripophily sale offers over 1,200 lots
Hundreds of banknotes that have been off the market or never offered before at auction will cross the block starting Oct. 18 at the Museum of American Finance in New York City. The sale include notes from Argentina, rare China issues, unlisted 1879 and 1880s Keeling Cocos rarities, East Africa, South Africa, Russia, an amazing collection of over 20 Georgia colonial banknotes. Read More +