Love at First Slope

Robert Indiana with his LOVE sculpture in New York's Central Park in 1971.

By Paul Kennedy
Feb 10, 2020

Often the same price or even less than a Hallmark card, vintage Valentine cards and postcards offer a creativity and beautiful artistry not found with modern cards. This fantastic Valentine postcard from 1912 features a beautiful woman face to face with Cupid holding his bow and arrow behind him; $10.

By Kris Manty
Feb 11, 2020

Mucha’s 1902 “Cycles Perfecta,” which exudes the decorative style and expressive spaghetti hair that made him famous, recently sold at auction for $36,000, way above its estimate of $17,000-$20,000.

By Kris Manty
Jan 30, 2020

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Feb 7, 2020

The impressive Orloj in Prague’s Old Town Square.

By Kris Manty
Feb 10, 2020

This Custom Camaro prototype could be one of the rarest and most valuable Hot Wheels cars to surface.

The most valuable U.S. rare coin sold in 2019 was a proof 1885 silver Trade dollar, graded NGC PR66, that sold for a record $3.96 million by Heritage Auctions. Heritage sold a total of $181.3 million of U.S. rare coins at auctions last year. The reverse of this coin is shown below.

Superior quality and exceptional rarity once again dominated the U.S. coin auction market in 2019, with hundreds of record prices realized and more than $325 million generated.

A 150-year-old blue Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters bottle, so rare that for years many doubted its existence, has sold for a staggering $155,000.

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The broad, beamed living room retains its furniture of the Arts & Crafts period, along with multi-lamp shower ceiling fixtures.

Remarkably intact, the home of evangelist Billy Sunday is typical of a Midwest bungalow, ca. 1915. The late preacher's house in Winona Lake, Ind., is a cathedral to Arts & Crafts decorating and early 20th-century lifestyle.