Antique and Vintage Marbles

Detail Of Akro Agate Marble Box Top

Marbles of Value and Beauty I just read a wonderful and thoroughly comprehensive article about vintage and antique marbles on Collectors Weekly. Dang! The only way to describe the marbles that this article discusses is that they are fabulous; each an intricate work of art, that each is unique, and that for the most part [...]

The Value of Gold and Silver Collectibles

Take Care as Antiques Dealers, Collectors, or Sellers! The value of gold and silver as pegged to the precious metals spot market price is now often times higher than the value of the gold or silver as an object of utility. The Gold and Silver Rush Is On… Today the spot price of Gold and [...]

Because Vintage Sterling Silver Charm Bracelets Tell Stories

Vintage Charm Bracelet with 28 Charms 20

We Might As Well Call Them Memory Bracelets! Vintage Sterling Silver Charm Bracelet With 28 Charms $325.00 I believe in memory, and the way objects are understood to hold memory, to tell stories, and act as place markers; to me that is what Vintage Charm Bracelets do – They Hold Memories… That’s what makes them [...]

Sink Your Teeth Into Antiques

Narwhal Tusk

Sink Your Teeth Into Antiques and Collecting Antique Dental Model From: Phisick Medical Antiques We have to eat because we are so very hungry – like everyday 365 days a year. And we have to have variety, we don’t want to eat the same thing everyday…we get kind of bored by the same old same [...]

I once had a Vintage Red Bicycle

Elgin Twin 20 Bicycle Sold by Copake Auctions

Not Exactly like one of these Vintage Bicycles …except it did have Big Ol’ Balloon Tires… Elgin Twin 20 Bicycle (circa 1936) Sold by Copake Auctions For $358.00 When I was a kid of around 8 or 9 years old, my dad went to a local junk yard and bought an old derelict bike. Here’s [...]