A large collection of Rowland & Marsellus rolled-edge pictorial souvenir plates was sold recently in England. Plates went for only $30 to $35 each. They are worth more in the United States, especially if a plate is sold in the…
A board game doesn't have to be a century old to interest collectors. Games from the 1950s and '60s that might be sitting forgotten on your closet shelves are auctioning for very good prices. A selection of mid-20th-century board games…
The question of how much restoration is too much has a new solution. The New-York Historical Society is displaying an unrestored chair that belonged to Napoleon alongside a virtual re-creation of the chair on a computer. The computer shows how…
ADVERTISINGRalston Club button, 1930s, reads "Member Ralston Club around the World," St. Louis Button Co., 7/8 in., $55Coca-Cola clock, Art Deco style, painted aluminum face on masonite & wood, electric, 1948, 37 x 18 in., $330Sparks' Medicine Company tray, ceramic,…
ADVERTISINGPear's Soap countertop sign, embossed, side view of woman with red hair, 1885, 7 x 9 1/2 in., $40Dickinson's Little Buster white popcorn tin, blue ground, red letters & trim, Little Buster popping corn over fire, 10 oz., $75Milhen Eggs…
Superman is still flying high 68 years after he made his first national appearance in Action Comics No. 1 in June 1938. The release this summer of Superman Returns, the latest movie about the world's most famous superhero, brought a…