WILLOUGHBY, Ohio – Antique and vintage toys played a major role in Milestone Auctions’ success in 2021. Their October 2nd toy event rocketed to $768,000, a house record for the suburban Cleveland, Ohio, company. Milestone is on track to keep that positive momentum going in 2022 with an 867-lot Winter Antique Toy Spectacular on January 29, which offers absentee or Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW ORLEANS – Crescent City Auction Gallery will ring in the New Year with an Important Winter Estates Auction, scheduled for the weekend of January 21 and 22. Start times are 11 am Central time on Day 1 and 10 am Central time on Day 2. More than 800 lots will be offered during the two-day sale. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK (AP) – A rare copy of a Superman #1 comic book that sold on newsstands for a dime in 1939 was purchased recently at auction for $2.6 million.
ABERDEEN, Miss. – Beautiful carved and root-built Thai furniture from a Texas estate, antique furnishings from a home in Eutaw, Alabama, and items decommissioned from a private museum in New Orleans will all come up for bid the weekend of January 14 and 15 at Stevens Auction Company. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
LONDON – Frans Hals (circa 1582 or 1583–1666) is one of the greatest masters of the Dutch Golden Age, praised by his contemporaries for his capacity to paint lifelike portraits that seem ‘to live and breathe’. In autumn 2021, The Wallace Collection began a celebration of Hals’s most famous and beloved and enigmatic painting, The Laughing Cavalier (1624) in the form of Frans Hals: The Male Portrait, a show that continues through January 30, 2022.
NEW YORK — Casino chips have no inherent value outside of the gambling venues that issue them. They are meant to be exchanged for cash under that roof, on the spot. Sometimes, though, people take casino chips home as souvenirs or forget to cash them in. The casinos themselves might be thoroughly transformed or long since bulldozed, but their chips might not be worthless. The collecting and resale of casino chips is big business. Some vintage chips that bear the livery of defunct casinos or have eye-catching graphics (or both) bring hundreds of dollars each, with a few individual pieces selling for several thousand and the scarcest examples breaking the five-figure mark. While it doesn’t happen every day, casino chips can achieve sums well in excess of their face value.