ADVERTISINGPoster, "Whalebone for dress making & corsets," black fabric, silver text, image of whale at sea, c.1890, 10 3/4 x 14 1/4 in., $345Buster Brown shoe box, lid has history of company, side shows Buster & Tige sitting on floor,…
Two dozen antique candy containers manufactured in Germany but depicting American comic-strip characters sold at a Bertoia auction in New Jersey. Prices ranged from just under $100 to over $1,400. All of the candy containers were made of "composition," a…
The world of doll collecting is big, with room for all sorts of dolls-even dolls that are two-dimensional and not really dolls at all. More than 90 old fabric patterns picturing prints of dolls or toys to be cut and…
Germany was a major producer of dolls and doll parts from about 1870 until the 1930s. Most glass dolls' eyes were made in Germany. Many French dolls had porcelain heads made in Germany. Most German dolls were made for export…
Q: I am in the shoe business and have an old Buster Brown advertising sign. It is plaster and features relief-molded heads of Buster and his dog, Tige. Under their heads are the words 'Buster Brown, America's Favorite Children's Shoe.'…
ADVERTISING Wilbur's Cocoa broom holder, image of cocoa can, cupid stirring cocoa, movable wire swings out to hold broom, 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 in., $300 Buster Brown Bread match holder, tin lithograph of Buster & Tige serving bread to…