From ancient Indigenous earthworks to the rise of American industry, Ohio's history offers a rich legacy of innovation and ...

A complete set of 23K gold-plated cards contained in Pokéballs released by Burger King in 1999 sold for £546 with their original boxes. It’s no secret that Pokémon cards have been selling for ...

There are Halloween masks, and then there are Halloween masks that make you wonder what possessed someone to create them in the first place. Some are grotesque enough to give you nightmares. Others ...

Día de los Muertos brings the living and the departed together through ancient traditions and the enduring power of ...

An original Roover Brothers fortune teller leads Morphy’s Oct. 16–17 auction, where mechanical marvels, amusement relics, and colorful advertising bring an earlier age of entertainment back to life.

Rare books and related ephemera at auction can be easy selling, or shall we say easy reading, for auction houses (see pages 16–21 for the latest sales). But rare and/or collectible paper goods aren’t ...

The Matchbox Regular Wheels 62c Mercury Cougar, with a pale yellow body, black plastic wheels, and a “New Model” Type E4 box, sold for a record £22,050 at Vectis Auctions. Image courtesy of Vectis ...

Early 1860s ferrotype of gamblers smoking cigars. I first encountered cigar label proofs as a teenager when, at an estate sale, I pulled a chest from beneath a staircase. The people running the sale ...

This vintage ad from 1971 touts Fisher-Price toys being powered by young imaginations and energy, and not batteries, though there were likely a few parents who wished the Corn Popper and other noisy ...

H.R. Giger - "The Tourist" Painting Original Art (ca. 1980). The need to downsize comes for most collectors. Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, whose famous “Bleak House” collection comprises ...

A $10 estate sale find turns into a porcelain puzzle. Is this pitcher a royal treasure—or just wearing a crown it didn’t earn? Reader submitted image. Question: I’m sending photos of this pitcher in ...