Not all marriages are made in heaven. Some are made in a mad scientist's laboratory, as was the case in the 1935 horror classic, The Bride of Frankenstein. Boris Karloff reprised his career-defining role as the Monster, this time in need of a compani

Every first Sunday of the month, Alameda. Alameda Point Antiques Faire, 3900 Maine St., Alameda, CA. The Alameda Point Antiques Faire is the largest antiques show in Northern California, boasting 800 dealer booths. All items 20 years old or older. Fo

JIM MARSHALL'S photograph of Bob Dylan kicking a tire down a New York City sidewalk in 1963 is an iconic image that captures the youthful energy and rebellious spirit of the burgeoning folk musician. Taken at a time when Dylan was emerging as a power

Sometime around 1950, rebellious children began deconstructing their crate scooters by pulling the wooden crates off and leaving just the wheeled boards. Other kids improvised by taking wheels off roller skates and nailing them to the bottom of a pla

When is a Hula Girl Figural Lamp more than just a classic kitschy lamp? When the wonderfully cheeky item once belonged to rock ‘n’ roll star Tom Petty (1950-2017), the late frontman of the massively popular Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. As a resul

As a kid, I knew all the states and their capitals. From Alabama (Montgomery) to Wyoming (Cheyenne), I could rattle them off as quick as a hiccup. Eat your heart out, Rand McNally! I'd love to tell you I mastered this skill because I was naturally cu

Though toy airplanes are less commonly collected than other transportation toys, bidders worldwide were so enthusiastic about the two-dozen offered at Milestone Auction's Premier Schuco Toy Sale & More on Aug. 24 that they helped them soar thousands

Las Vegas may be the gambling capital of the U.S., but the symbol of Sin City, the slot machine, was born in San Francisco when German inventor Gustav Schultze created the first nickel slot in 1893. Schultze's slot was a Horseshoes game that paid cus

Underwater exploration was just a fantasy until British brothers and inventors Charles and John Deane came along. After tinkering with the design of a smoke helmet they invented in 1823, they developed a diving helmet and successfully demonstrated it

One of the finest copies known to exist, Fantastic Four #1 (Marvel, 1961), carrying a Near-Mint+ 9.6 grade, sold for a record $2,040,000 in September at Heritage Auctions. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime comic and, really, a pop-culture trophy piece,”

OKLAHOMA CITY - 23rd Street Antique Mall in Oklahoma City boasts an 11,000 square foot showroom spotlighting the wares of more than 70 high-quality vendors who don't sell anything more contemporary than the 1960s. Owners Bill and Denny McConnell, a d

During WWII, the U.S. spent $288 billion in 1940 dollars, equivalent to $6.5 trillion in 2024 dollars. By the end of WWII, much of that money was gone. It had been spent on bombs, on airplanes that had been shot down, on soldiers’ salaries and on aid

VP/GENERAL MANAGER COLLECTIBLES Corinne Zielke EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Paul Kennedy; pkennedy@aimmedia.com EDITORS EMERITAE Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Elizabeth Heineman, Dr. Anthony J. Cavo, Kris Manty, Pamela Wiggins Siegel, Kele Joh

You can't spend any time in proximity to vintage costume jewelry without seeing or hearing the name Weiss (which rhymes with rice, by the way). Saying it's ubiquitous might be an overstatement, but it's a brand even beginning collectors know and run

CLEVELAND – A treasure trove of more than 15,000 volumes and 50 linear feet of resarch resources and correspondence from the collection of Terry Kovel and her late husband, Ralph, has been donated to the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Kovels remarkable

If you see TERRY KOVEL, wish her a happy birthday. Terry, who with her late husband, Ralph, founded Kovels, turns 96 on October 27. Of course, that means, technically speaking, she is not an antique: she's vintage. And we could not agree more. Terry

Banned but not forgotten, a circa 1980s mint-in-box set of Regent Jarts recently sold for $523 at Esquis Auctions in Chicago. Popular for decades, lawn darts were notoriously dangerous, so much so that the United States Consumer Product Safety Commis

It’s a story of treasure lost at sea and a fisherman’s catch of a lifetime. Fisherman Richard West of Plymouth, England, recently found a small plastic shark in his ship’s nets off the Cornwall coast. He immediately recognized it as a LEGO piece, lik

Food has long been associated with comfort, family and home. Cookbooks of yesteryear remind readers of those cherished memories and traditions. But entwined with that nostalgia you’ll also discover snapshots of the past — glimpses of popular cultural

Released in 1955, Lady and The Tramp is an animated musical romance film produced by Walt Disney that tells the unlikely love story between a female American Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a refined, upper-middle-class family and a male str

DENVER, Pa. – Collectors had a gas at Morphy’s recent Automobilia & Petroliana Auction, driving the 650-lot event to sales totaling $1.85 million. The top lot of the day was a circa1940s Harbor Petroleum Products sign with an exciting seaplane-on-wat

VP/GENERAL MANAGER COLLECTIBLES Corinne Zielke EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Paul Kennedy; pkennedy@aimmedia.com EDITORS EMERITAE Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Elizabeth Heineman, Dr. Anthony J. Cavo, Kris Manty, Pamela Wiggins Siegel, Kele Joh