Vintage Technology
The Ice Gun: A Forgotten Space-Age Kitchen Gadget From 1935
The iconic, and super rare Ice Gun is a piece of Art Deco hardware that Buck Rogers would love, blasting sci-fi coolness into cocktail hour.
Vintage Video Games: The Next Big Thing is Here
Soaring growth in the vintage video game market is resulting in a flurry of record-breaking auction sales, a trend that could be the new norm.
Right On Track
From lanterns to station signs, locomotive nameplates to china, and headlights to whistles, railroadiana collectors steam into 50th year dedicated to all things railroad.
Vintage Fire Grenades History and Value
What are fire grenades? From the 1870s through the early 1900s, liquid-filled bottles were used to fight small house fires. Today they are rare and collectible.
When Wheeled-Fortune Smiles
A miracle of biblical proportions lands a 12-year-old kid the coolest bike ever -- a Huffy Dragster III, decked out in all its muscle-bike splendor.
Kubrick's 2001 Prop Blasts Off
Iconic space suit from Stanley Kubrick's landmark film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, sells for $370,000 at Julien's Auctions.
Buried Treasure
A long-lost diving helmet, a U.S. Navy Mark V, surfaces after decades buried in a hoarders' northern Wisconsin home. The 1916 helmet could be the most historically important helmet in the world – and the most valuable when it comes to auction in July.
Antique Diving Helmets: Adventure Awaits Just Below the Surface
Those who wore a diving helmet while making a living or serving our country were as brave as our imaginations allow them to be. And sometimes more so.
Vintage Video Games: Donkey Kong 3 could win $20K at auction
A copy of Nintendo’s Donkey Kong 3 (NES, 1986) and a rare cartridge of Nintendo World Championships are now enticing collectors to pay $20,000+ at auction.
Mechanical marvels auction slated for May 18
Auction Team Breker announces mechanical marvels - technical antiques of all kinds - will be sold during its May 18 auction in Koln, Germany and online at www.liveauctioneers.com and www.invaluable.com.
Meteorite Auction: Take home a piece from the heavens
Donley Auctions announces a Meteorite Auction May 18, 2019 featuring the collection of Christina Hollis and Ronald Hubbs.
Meet Thomas Edison's phonograph doll
Thomas Edison's phonograph doll, introduced in 1890, is a rarity sought out by collectors. It played wax cylinders created by Alexander Graham Bell.
Antique Appraisal: Tiny ‘spy’ camera is fun, but impractical
In her latest exclusive antique appraisals for Antique Trader magazine, appraiser Susan Mullikin evaluates a tiny "spy" camera and a lovely Art Deco necklace.
York Antiques Show & Sale Upon Us
Premiere antiquing event in Mid-Atlantic region kicks off end of January in Pennsylvania.
