Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Dolls, Reader questions, and Toys
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources to help them determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
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 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…
Posted in Toys
Let me show you something, a fellow auction-goer said quietly to me. I followed him to one of about three tables packed with toys, most of them new, not vintage. Rich is a toy buyer,…
Posted in Toys
My auction buddy Janet initially spotted them. About eight crazy-tube objects had been arranged on a wooden post like tree branches by a flea-market couple in a space next to us last weekend. They resembled the…
I was flipping through some GE Show ‘N Tell records and filmstrips from 1964 that I got at auction, putting aside the Disneys and fairy tales and cartoons. Then I started seeing some serious stuff: Indian…
Posted in collectibles, Dolls, and Toys
The woman peered into the little white paper bag, not sure of what she’d find inside. “Is this doll furniture?” she asked. Yes, it is. She then picked up the bag and began taking out…
Posted in Toys
“People collect anything,” I said to the man standing next to me at one of my auctions this week. I was referring to two small clear plastic boxes of yo-yos that were about to be…
