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Bertoia’s to auction Paul Cole’s 50-year collection of fine American and European trains, early tin and pressed-steel toys, May 21-22
Featured: Marklin rarities including ‘Circus Oriental’ caravan car and Newark Passenger Station; Ives trains and toys, George Brown classics, Arcade, Dent and Kenton automotive toys Circa-1908 Marklin ‘Circus Oriental’ train wagon, 8in long with exquisite detail, hand-painted shutters. Estimate $20,000-$30,000 VINELAND, N.J. – The exceptional antique toy and train collection…
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Part I of premier Schroeder toy and bank collection rings the register at $3.1 million
Girl Skipping Rope mechanical bank captures top-lot honors, sells for record $156K J&E Stevens (American), Girl Skipping Rope cast-iron mechanical bank. Book example depicted in Blair Whitton's 1981 reference ‘Clockwork Toys.’ Pristine to near-mint condition. The top lot of the sale, it sold for $156,000, a world auction record for…
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Bertoia’s April 8-9 Annual Spring Auction introduces hybrid format offering bidders two levels of beautiful toys, banks and trains
Marklin ‘HMS Gladiator’ clockwork battleship, 25in long, in production from 1902-1907. Wonderful proportions with exaggerated superstructure and cannons, details faithful to the real-life battleship of its day. Estimate $30,000-$50,000 VINELAND, N.J. – Bertoia Auctions will introduce an exciting new hybrid model at this year’s Annual Spring Auction, combining an April…
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Clocks From Canada, The U.s. And Europe Dominate The List Of Top Lots In Miller & Miller’s Music Machines, Clocks & Canadiana Sale
The online-only auction, held March 20th, featured 646 lots of clocks, Canadiana and music machines, pottery, stoneware, folk art, advertising and trade signs, toys, breweriana, paintings. French Paul O’Dobey wire tower clock made in 1899, originally from a monastery, featuring an “angelus strike” striking twelve times on a small bell…
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Miller & Miller’s March 20th Music Machines, Clocks & Canadiana Sale Will Be Headlined By Four Outstanding Collections, At 9 Am Eastern
The online-only auction is loaded with 645 lots. In addition to the clocks, Canadiana and music machines, the sale also has pottery and stoneware, folk art, advertising signs, toys, breweriana. Dutch wall clock in a walnut case with barley twist columns, made in the Zaanse region of Holland near Amsterdam,…
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Trains Did So Well In Weiss Auctions’ February 24th Toys & Trains Sale The Firm Plans To Hold Up To Eight More Train Sales Thru End Of 2021
The February auction featured the extensive S gauge collection of Frank Pisani, plus more of the Neil Padron estate, with its many high-grade American Flyer S accessories and post-war rarities American Flyer S gauge smoke-in-tender Northern 332 steam locomotive, 1946 or 1947, with a bronze brake tank and a unique…
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Stair Brings the Art of the Exquisite Corpse to Auction
This March, Stair will offer an unusual auction that borders on the macabre. Collectors will find drawings of the human body in every style imaginable, from the realist to the absurd. The auction, held live on March 3rd, 2021, highlights the ‘Exquisite Corpse’ game of the Surrealists. Annette Lemieux, Doug…
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4 Trends in Fine Teddy Bear Collecting During Lockdown
Enter-seam Steiff teddy bear circa 1905 brought to auction in 2020 by Bertoia Auctions. Photo from LiveAuctioneers. Just over a year ago, lockdowns began in the United States. The auction industry’s online infrastructure largely helped it combat the dearth of live events and the realities of social distancing. Still, each…
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Auction Review: Oddities and Collectibles From the Guinness World Records Museum
On February 12th, 2021, Ripley Auctions sold over 100 items from the now-closed Guinness World Records Museum in Niagara Falls, Canada. The sale enjoyed a 99% sell-through rate. Announced shortly after the museum permanently closed in September of 2020, the auction offered life-sized versions of record holders, various visual displays,…
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All Aboard! Turner Auctions + Appraisals Presents The Paul Guaraglia Collection Of Model Trains
Over 220 Lots Go Up for Bid on Saturday, March 6 SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 17, 2021 – Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present The Paul Guaraglia Collection of Model Trains on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at 10:30 am PST. Featuring over 220 lots, the sale presents a…
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Items From The Now-closed Guinness Museum Of World Records Will Be Sold In An Online-only Auction Ending Feb. 12th By Ripley Auctions
The auction is packed with over 100 lots of curious oddities, circus sideshow items, arts and entertainment memorabilia, music and sports collectibles, museum displays, coin-op interactive exhibits, sculpted characters, artifacts and even some smaller items such as record wall plaques. A candidate for top lot of the auction is this…
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Miller & Miller's online-only Advertising, Toys & Historic Objects auction, December 12th, is a huge hit with collectors
The 712-lot auction featured advertising signs, toys, breweriana, coin-ops, historic objects, general store, agricultural collectibles, telephones and more. The top lot of the auction was this Pace’s Races 5-cent horse race slot machine made in the United States in 1934, professionally restored mechanically and cosmetically (CA$29,212). NEW HAMBURG, ONTARIO, CANADA,…
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Star Wars toys discovered in bin bags net £400,000 for UK couple
From Storm Trooper helmets to R2D2’s eye, memorabilia from one of the world’s biggest movie franchises can fetch eye-watering sums at auctions. LONDON(AFP).- A British couple have thanked their lucky stars after a garage full of bin bags they inherited from a dead neighbour yielded a trove of Star Wars toys…
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Favorite Playthings For Adults & Children – Bears, Dolls & Trains Come To Turner Auctions + Appraisals
Over 230 Lots Go Up for Bid on Sunday, November 15 Vintage Steiff Limited Edition Teddy Bears SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 27, 2020 – Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to offer Bears, Dolls & Trains on Sunday, November 15, 2020. The auction presents a wide selection of playthings…
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Auction excitement at Morphy’s Sept. 23-24 toy sale as boxed Machine Man sets new world auction record at $160,000
Cast-iron mechanical banks, set of rare war-themed gum cards, 1898 Parker Bros. ‘Game of Merry Christmas’ sailed past high estimates Very rare Masudaya (Japan) Machine Man robot, lithographed tin, battery operated. VG-NM condition with very seldom-seen original pictorial box. Comes from original owner who received it as a child. Sold…
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Oil on canvas painting of a Japanese girl by David Burliuk (1882-1967) brings $39,100 at Weiss Auctions, September 16th
The portrait painting, measuring 13 inches by 17 inches on a relined canvas, was signed lower left by Burliuk and dated “1922”. It was the top lot of the sale. Beautiful oil on canvas portrait of a Japanese girl by David Burliuk (Ukrainian/American, 1882-1967), 13 inches by 17 inches, signed…
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Civil War-era military amputation kit sells for $5,000 at Holabird's Great American Pow-Wow Auction held August 27-31
Also, a pair of circa 1910-1920 railroad signal lamps brought $5,375 and a choice, attractive crystalline gold specimen weighing 5.45 troy ounces hit $5,625. Civil War-era military amputation kit made around 1861 by G. Tiemann & Co. (N.Y.), which had been making surgical instruments since 1826 ($5,000). RENO, NV, UNITED…
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Super-rare Machine Man robot with original box leads Morphy's Sept. 23-24 Toy Auction
Very rare Masudaya (Japan) Machine Man Robot, lithographed tin, battery operated. VG-NM condition with very seldom-seen original pictorial box. Comes from original owner who received it as a child. Estimate $60,000-$90,000 DENVER, PA.- One of the most enjoyable aspects of collecting antique toys is attending an auction, discovering that elusive piece…
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Basics Sale
At the top of the upcoming Basics Sale catalog, offered by Bertoia Auctions, is an automaton from Frank Nelson. The artist spent his early days designing motor and aircraft models. In the early 1970s, he started to create automata in his figurative style using carved and painted wood. Introducing “The…
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SAS’ Daniel Agnew Talks Teddy Bears
Special Auction Services will present Teddy bears from across the decades in its September 9th sale Daniel Agnew, SAS’ Doll and Teddy Bear Specialist Consultant. Photo courtesy of Special Auction Services. It's a Teddy bear's picnic - literally - at Special Auction Services’ Grandma's Teddy Bear Museum sale on September…
