One subscriber’s free antiques appraisal discovers his garage sale find is really a stash of Florida-themed folk art oils on sand paper valued at $900: "I moved to Florida in the early 1980s. For a lack of something to do and familiar with collector coins, metals and some antiques and collectibles, I started going to garage sales and flea markets. This is about one garage sale find. Two very pretty picture frames caught my attention."
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Coca-Cola
World’s largest private Coca-Cola art, memorabilia collection going up for sale
It is the biggest and the best privately held collection of Coca-Cola memorabilia in the world. There are one-of-a-kind posters, rare serving trays, bottles, antique delivery trucks, Santa icons and even the side of a barn. Altogether, there are some 80,000 items worth as much as $10 million. The Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia in Elizabethtown, Ky., is divesting its vast collection that fills a museum and warehouse totaling 32,000 square feet.
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Ask AT: Long oil worth $600; Vases’ design and marks hint to Austrian origin
Just Answer appraiser Alan C. Ransdell’s free appraisal for two Antique Trader readers discovers an Oswald P. Long oil on canvas valued at $600 and a pair of Rococo mantel vases valued at $400.
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Nearly 2,000 pieces of gas and oil petroliana available May 17-22, 2011 in Indiana
Nearly 2,000 pieces of gas and oil petroliana, rare porcelain and neon signs and soda pop memorabilia will go up for bid during Dana Mecum’s 24th Annual Original Spring Classic Auction, May 17-22, 2011, in Indianapolis, Ind. The auction has 400 items of high-end gas- and oil-related pieces and rare neon signs as well as 700 items from a different collection ranging from a 1954 Merita bread sign highlighting the Lone Ranger to a 1920s John Deere sign and 1950s Coca-Cola coolers and vending machines all offered at no reserve.
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Reverse painted on glass sign shatters advertising sign records
A magnificent Rock Island Railroad reverse glass sign, made in 1890 by an employee of the firm who fashioned reverse glass lamp shades for Pullman cars, sold for $165,000 at an auction held April 1-3 by Showtime Auctions. "Not only was the sign the earliest and most important piece of advertising ever made for the Rock Island Railroad, the price realized was the most ever paid for an advertising sign," said Michael Eckles of Showtime Auctions.
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Make Mine Moxie – a snapshot of a still-popular soda and its tasty collectibles
Moxie the carbonated beverage originated as a patent medicine called "Moxie Nerve Food," which was created around 1876 by Dr. Augustin Thompson of Union, Maine. Learn more about this 135-year-old soft drink that’s still appreciated by New England soda connoisseurs and soda collectors.
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Advertising and soda pop event combines auction and Ohio Gas Expo
Hundreds of vintage neon clocks, lights and motion advertising signs from the Wayne and Shirley Woodrum lifetime collection plus a huge variety of rare antique country store items, soda pop, automotive, gasoline, hardware, clothing, ice cream, barbershop and related advertising pieces all make up a three day auction event, May 5-7, 2011, in conjunction with the Ohio Gas Expo at the Dayton Airport Expo Center in Vandalia (Dayton), Ohio.
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Fresh air blows into Indy Ad Show with new promoters; dealer count up by 30 percent
Fresh air blows into Indy Ad Show with new management; booths grow by 30 percent – On a Saturday too nice to spend to spend indoors many collectors and dealers did just that to participate in the Indy Ad Show, which opened its two-day run at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on March 19, 2011.
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Vintage tin Richlube Motor Oil advertising sign soars to $7,425
An exceptionally clean, Richlube Motor Oil double-sided porcelain sign ("100% Pure Pennsylvania") soared to $7,425 at a March 4 sale. Consigned by a collector in upstate New York, the sign featured a small race car graphic and was graded 9 out of 10 on the front for overall condition, and 8.9 on the reverse side. The sign boasted super gloss and color, the only flaws being some minor crazing in the center, and small chips in the outer field and around the mounting holes. Otherwise, it was mint.
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Vintage Coca-Cola bartender’s knife in nickel silver sells for $600
Coca-Cola pocket knives are available in a plethora of styles and designs; they are eagerly pursued by both Coca-Cola collectors and knife collectors alike – especially when they turn up for sale in exceptional condition. Internet and in-house bidders battled … Read More +