Two vintage tin toys: on the left, Mickey Mouse pulls Pluto on a wheeled platform with a drum; on the right, an orange elephant with a raised trunk stands by a "Jumbo Bak-Up" box. Vintage Fisher-Price ...

When the world slowed down in 2020, many people turned to nostalgia for comfort-and collectors took notice. Antiques that once sat quietly in display cabinets suddenly became the hottest commodities ...

That dusty box in your attic could be a goldmine. Think we’re exaggerating? A Boba Fett action figure sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, a single Pokémon card fetched nearly a million, and a ...

“It was my high school graduation present in 1978,” Gail Wang told appraiser Brian Thomczek about the unusual Petite Princess Display Case she recently brought along with a few other toys to an ...

Bruce Zalkin is 53 and has been appraising antique toys for 40 years. Under the tutelage of his grandmother, 5-old Zalkin learned the value of antiques of all kinds. Then, as a teenager, he found his ...

19th-C. pop-up Christmas cards, an antique Bread Winners mechanical bank, Clown with Crooked Hat still bank, and Drummer Boy bell toy were crowd favorites Collectors of toys, banks, pop culture items ...

Knowing the name of the maker of any collectible or antique adds value, but sometimes a name creates a mystery. There are many vintage children’s toys marked “Steelcraft,” but books or online searches ...