Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Toys
Something was making a racket among the old teddy bears. I had placed about five of the stuffed animals in a black garbage bag, after having removed about a dozen from another cardboard box that held them…
Posted in Dolls, Music, Performers, and Toys
Auctions are about more than just antiques. They’re also about kitsch, and what can be more kitschy than a singing James Brown doll. Such a doll showed up at an auction I attended last weekend…
Posted in Halloween, Reader questions, and Toys
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of the items that they own. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but…
Posted in Children, collectibles, Toys, and Vehicles
As I rounded the corner at the auction house, the pastel pink color finger-snapped my eyes toward its direction. A girl’s tricycle with a tail fin reminiscent of a vintage airplane practically shone before me in this…
Posted in Children, Clocks, collectibles, Toys, and TV
Did you have one of those, I asked the man idling in front of his tables of vintage toys in a far corner of the main ballroom at the nostalgia convention. He had been sitting behind…
I was expecting to “revisit the past and reminisce about an era that people over the age of 50 remember with fondness” as I entered the hotel space for a nostalgia convention late last week.…
Posted in collectibles, Dolls, Figurines, Movies, and Toys
An auction house recently retweeted a story about items that people bought as collectibles but are not worth the price they paid for them. I found the list interesting because practically every one of the…
Posted in Toys
When I saw the photos for the upcoming auction at the home of an African American family, I was thrilled. I was hoping that the negligible number of photos gave no true picture of what was…
I remember this, the female auction-goer said with surprised excitement as she spotted a vintage brown mechanical horse near the front of a room at the auction house. I was standing near it, alone, eyeing…
I was picking over some disparate items in a box at auction when I spotted a round paddle board with wooden chickens on the top. It reminded me of the paddle ball toys I’d played…
