Q. Over the past 12 years, I have collected 46 figural wooden smoking stands. I think most of them are from the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Each one is a wooden-cutout silhouette about 3 feet tall, painted to look like…
Nearly 100 stone-lithographed labels representing the Golden Age of cigar advertising, 1880 to 1920, sold recently at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. Prices went from $54 for a "Paid in Full" label to $837 for a "Lone Trail" label picturing…
Take a look at these cute and colorful carved wooden smoking stands. One just like it may have been made by your dad or granddad when he was a Boy Scout in the 1930s. Patterns for these stands were printed…
Cast-iron doorstops made between the two world wars of the 20th century are "heavy" favorites with collectors. Prices at two recent auctions ranged from $52 for a sunbonnet girl to $8,625 for a black boy on a basket (pictured). Any…
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