Collectors Corner: Collectible Vinyl – LPs
Chances are that you long ago abandoned any LPs you may have owned for compact discs or streaming services. Perhaps you donated your albums to a library book sale or to a church rummage sale. […]
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Collectors Corner: Identifying Your Stuff, Part II: Silver and Silver-plate
If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably spent many pleasant Saturdays combing yard, rummage, and estate sales for items to add to your collections or for resale. Until this year. The lockdowns associated with Covid-19 […]
Collectors Corner: Identifying Your Stuff, Part I – Jewelry
You’ve spent the COVID-19 lockdown sorting through all the nooks, crannies, closets, and drawers of your abode, and now you’ve got boxes and boxes of items that you plan on donating or selling. What’s the […]
Collectors Corner: Rediscovering the Joy of Old Catalogs
Ok, we have to admit that the first week of the Covid-19 quarantine we did little else but read, eat, watch TV, and run around trying to find toilet paper, Kleenex, and hand sanitizer. (Oh, […]
Collectors Corner: While We Were Self-Quarantining …
Land O’Lakes decided to eliminate “Mia”, the indigenous maiden, from the packaging of its butter products. Founded July 8, 1921 as the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association, the company held a contest in 1924 to name […]
Collectors Corner: Mr. Peanut Collectibles Live On
Spring is just around the corner, and flea markets, yard sales, and swap meets will be popping up all around. So, we thought we’d take a look at one category you might want to keep […]
Collectors Corner: Mobo Toys
Mobo may be one of the most popular toymakers that few Americans have heard of. The company had its origins in 1921 when David Sebel, a Russian immigrant to England, founded D. Sebel and Co., […]
Collectors Corner: Belsnickel, a Collectible Christmas Visitor
Often described as a more crotchety version of Jolly Old St. Nick, Belsnickel (also spelled Belsnickle, Pelznickel, and several other variants) arrived in America with German immigrants in the early 18th century. According to German […]
Collectors Corner: Halloween Jack-O’-Lanterns
Everyone knows that Halloween is more than witches on brooms, wailing ghosts, and black cats. It’s also greeting cards and masks and costumes and candy corn and noise makers and all the decorations that make […]
Collectors Corner: MAD Magazine
“What, me worry?” Alfred E. Neuman After 67 years of poking fun at popular culture, politics, the entertainment industry, and just about anyone and anything that managed to get in their crosshairs, MAD magazine is […]