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Kovels’ January 2022 newsletter features jewelry by Art Smith, Roseville pottery, vintage and antique buttons, toy train accessories, and countertop display cabinets, all with photos and prices.

Distinctive jewelry made by Art Smith drew high bids at auction in Los Angeles and it’s featured in a sales report in the January 2022 issue of Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles newsletter. Smith was one of the leading modernist jewelry artists of the mid-20th century and his work has a bold, expressive style. Read about Art Smith in Kovels’ first-of-the-new-year issue and enjoy seeing a selection of his bracelets, necklaces, pins and rings along with their auction prices.

Toy train sets are fun to play with, even more so with when they include accessories like train stations. A recent New Jersey auction featured a single owner’s collection of toy trains and toy train accessories and Kovels’ January newsletter pictures some of the accessories. See detailed recreations of international train stations, a country station with a crossing bar and semaphore, a hill climbing trolley, and others, with selling prices, that were made in Germany in the early 1900s.

Advertising collectibles are always popular. Some collectors specialize in vintage advertising items that were used in stores, like the countertop display cabinets that were offered at a recent Indiana auction. Find priced examples such as cabinets that once held men’s shirt collars, baby bottle caps and nipples, and even “poisons” and apothecary liquids in Kovels’ January issue.

Collectors who admire Roseville pottery will enjoy the January 2022 sales report that pictures a selection of Roseville vases auctioned recently in Cincinnati, along with their prices and a bit of information about each pattern. Then turn to the January Dictionary of Marks to see examples of marks and labels found on Roseville to help identify and date pieces you may find.

And last, but not least, take a look at vintage and antique buttons, small but interesting collectibles that range from artistic to whimsical. Examples pictured in the latest Kovels’ newsletter include buttons made with materials from Bakelite to glass to rubber to wood and learn their affordable prices.

The Kovels go “on the road” to explore “vintage” Virginia, picturing favorites from a museum in Richmond and shops in Charlottesville. The first Collector’s Gallery of the new year answers readers’ questions about a bull’s head can opener, a Nippon wall pocket, an art deco skyscraper lamp, and a plated amberina pitcher. And more than 70 antiques and collectibles are listed in the January 2022 Buyer’s Price Guide.

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Kovels’ December 2021 newsletter features rare Meissen porcelain, festive Christmas postcards, Bakelite jewelry, mechanical pictures, and antique cupboards, all with photos and prices.

A collection of 18th-century Meissen porcelain that smashed record prices at auction in New York City is featured in a sale report in Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles December 2021 newsletter. Every piece of Meissen was rare with a historic past, and the winning bids started at $5,000 and soared to $1.5 million. Read about this incredible collection’s complicated history and see pictures, descriptions and prices of many exceptional pieces.

Old Christmas postcards with brightly colored images of Santa Claus were sold at an Illinois auction. Kovels’ December newsletter pictures postcards from the early 1900s with images of Santa in a variety of wintery scenes from a snowy forest to the basket of a zeppelin, along with their prices. And learn a bit about dating old postcards by turning them over to see the “clues” on the backs.

A New Jersey auction included a small selection of mechanical pictures. Popular in the late 1880s and early 1900s, the framed scenes with 3D figures powered by clockwork mechanisms must have delighted children and adults alike. See the top-priced example, a turn-of-the-century vignette of family members gathered on Christmas that brought $5,000, and others that portrayed humorous scenes in Kovels’ December issue.

A few dozen antique cupboards sold at auction in Pennsylvania. Kovels’ latest newsletter pictures a corner cupboard, Dutch cupboard, hanging cupboard, jelly cupboard, milk cupboard, pie cupboard, and others, with prices. The solid materials, sturdy construction, and varied shapes and sizes make them practical and affordable additions to modern homes.

And last but not least, the Kovels found Bakelite jewelry back on auction block. The December newsletter pictures pins, bracelets, and dress clips in bright colors that recently sold for affordable prices in Toronto. Some were even iconic Bakelite shapes, like the pins with a dangling red heart, dangling cherries, and the swordfish with a Lucite fin.

In the December market report, find a collection of sleek and sculptural “everyday” items such as a blender, ice crusher, pitcher, ice bucket, and more, many by notable mid-20th century designers, that auctioned in Chicago. The illustrated December Collector’s Gallery answers readers’ questions about a silver epergne, a wicker table, an old cloth doll, and a Delft pitcher. The Dictionary of Marks lists doll makers whose marks can be identified by their shape. And more than 70 antiques and collectibles are listed in the December Buyer’s Price Guide.