Our previous features on Pelham Puppets articles included how to date Pelham Puppets and a small Pelham Puppet price guide. The Pelham Puppets Price Guide below includes more results from leading toy auctioneers Vectis, ebay, Bonhams etc. The current market is variable but mint items in boxes do fetch a […]
A rare 1935 one sheet poster from the movie Top Hat starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers stole the show and set a new record at Turner Classic Movies(TCM) auction Picture Perfect: The Art of Movie Posters when it sold for $37,5000 on the 20th July.Pictured: Top Hat – RKO, 1935. One sheet […]
What will top your tree this year? Will you opt for an English traditional fairy, a continental angel, or play safe and affix a star? Nowadays, it seems almost impossible to buy a tree-topper fairy doll – Christmas stores are full of angels. Where have the wand-waving fairies disappeared too? […]
Designs by Whitefriars have become collectable especially by those by Geoffrey Baxter and Barnaby Powell. Classic shapes such as the Banjo Vase and the Drunken Bricklayer Vase continue to attract interest and even within these designs there is considerable difference in price depending on the colour. Rarer colours can sometimes […]
19th July will see the third Wade International Whimsie Day when a special Wade Whimsie White Elephant will be available to purchase from C&S Collectables. There will be a Honey Glaze Whimsie Elephant available from the Wade Collectors Club. The day celebrates the day in 1891 when Sir George Wade was […]
Iconic Shirley Temple Polka Dot Dress sets record selling for $75,000 at Theriaults Love, Shirley Temple auction. Items from the Love, Shirley Temple have been on tour for some weeks generating a great deal of interest in the over 500 lots of items from the personal childhood collection of Shirley […]
A decade of tragedy; in the space of a few short years, almost ten million young men died on the battlefields of Europe, with 200,000 losing their lives on the fields of Flanders. Yet it was also a decade of triumph and creativity. Pictured right: Ernst Heubach 1910 bisque When […]
Jumeau was a French company, founded in the early 1840s, which designed and manufactured high quality bisque dolls. It was founded by Louis-Desire Belton and Pierre-François Jumeau in the Maison Jumeau of Montreuil-sous-Bois, near Paris, France. While Belton did not remain with the company for long, under Jumeau’s leadership (and […]
An Extraordinary Private Collection of Rare French Bébés, German Characters, and American Folk Dolls. Theriault’s auction on July 15th features the very significant collection of French Bébés, German Characters, and American Folk Dolls from the collection of Billie and Paige Welker. Dolls included some of the rarest German bisque art […]
With the 2015 San Diego Comic Con only days away (July 9th to 12th) there are a number of exclusives being presented to the awaiting public. These include an exclusive Alien 1979 Retro Minimate from Diamond Select Toys. In 1979, a nearly 2-foot tall Alien action figure appeared on toy store […]
