Kitchenalia are items and utensils associated with the kitchen and are now collected. These kitchenalia items range from Victorian copper jelly moulds and glass rolling pins to 1950s/1960s retro items to Kenwood Chef mixers to modern kitchen classics such as Alessi. Unlike other rooms, the kitchen is much more difficult […]
Have you considered complementing your doll collection with picture postcards? There are thousands of designs available, and as they take up so little room, you won’t get guilt feelings each time you buy another. Picture postcards became popular in the 1890s, reaching their peak in the early 1900s, up to […]
The most valuable Frankenstein movie poster ever sold at public auction — the only 6-foot example from the 1931 Universal horror classic known to exist — sold for $358,000 in Heritage Auctions’ $2.1 million Vintage Movie Posters Auction. The poster was the top lot in the March 28-29 auction and […]
Two of the rarest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures Hot Spot and Scratch will be fighting their way into Vectis TV and Film auction on the 15th April. The models from the Playmates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1992-93 series included two of the range’s rarest figures – Hot Spot and […]
The 2015 Lladro Annual piece is Sweet Shyness sculpted by Javier Molina is now available replacing Sweet Adolescence the 2014 Lladro annual piece. Sweet Shyness features some wonderful Lladro colours and depicts a young girl in a pink dress, blushing in a moment of shyness. It is sure to be popular […]
Hornby’s latest website and concession exclusive is the LNER 4-4-0 ‘The Burton’ D49/1 Class. The model is in the LNER livery and comes DCC fitted. It is priced at £99.99. Also just released are the BR 2-8-0 52xx Class – Late BR and BR 2-8-0 52xx Class – Late BR models. About the […]
The term “American Stoneware” refers to the predominant houseware of nineteenth century America–stoneware pottery usually covered in a salt glaze and often decorated using cobalt oxide to produce bright blue decorations. Pictured right: Fenton & Hancock Water Cooler sold at auction for $88,000 in Nov 2006 at Crocker Farm Inc […]
Emerging from the Dark Ages, scholars concerned themselves with matters of magic, issues of theology and creative – if nonsensical – arguments such as the Flat Earth Theory. Pictured right: W&R Carlton Ware 3″ NEW MIKADO 2814; 4 3/4″ CHRYSANTHEMUM 2930; 6″ PARROT 3018 vases Among those who queried the […]
I got my first diecast fifty years ago. My mother and father must have thought that at six years old I was ‘grown-up’ enough to have a real toy at last, and so Christmas morning 1958 saw me tearing open the brown paper packaging (potato-printed with holly and what could […]
The 1st Wade Collectors Day of 2015 will take place at Moorville Hall, Leek Road, Werrington, Stoke on Trent, England on Sunday 29th March between 10 am and 2pm. The Wade Event is dedicated exclusively to Wade Collectors and C&S Collectables and The Wade Club will host the Wade Day […]
