2024Collective HudsonThomas Nast. New York City engraving "Central Park in Summer" Antique hand colored engraving 1864See Sold Price
2023Kiechel AuctionThomas Nast - Harper's Weekly "Peace and Good Will Ringing in the Air"See Sold Price
2023Collective HudsonThomas Nast. New York City engraving "Central Park in Summer" Antique hand colored engraving 1864 afSee Sold Price
2023Worthington GalleriesPair of 19th c. Harper's Weekly Political Covers by Thomas Nast (Liberal Republican Party)See Sold Price
2023Lewis & Grant AuctionsCivil War Battle Scenes engraving on paper B. Wright Smith, H.B. Hall, V. Balch, Thomas Nast, AlonzoSee Sold Price
Ho-ho-ho! Exploring the true origin of Santa Claus The spirit of Christmas is universal, but the embodiment of the perennially popular Yuletide figure Santa Claus has a history that began in the unlikeliest of places: New York.
Kovels Antiques and Collecting: Week of Dec. 20, 2015 BEACHWOOD, Ohio – “Belsnickle” is a German name said by some to be taken from the words “belzen,” meaning “to wallop,” and “Nickel,” a form of the name Nikolas. Others say the name is from “pelz,” the German word for fur.
Auktionsgespraeche: Grundsätzlich BelsnickleSAXONY, Deutschland – Vor zwanzig Jahren sagte Lorraine Jones aus Peabody, Massachusetts, zu Ihrem Ehemann, sie wäre zufrieden, wenn sie einen Belsnickel-Süßigkeitenbehälter kaufen würde. Vierundneunzig Belsnickels später hat Lorraine Jones eine kleine Schar der zerbrechlichen deutschen Süßigkeitenbehälter aus papier-mâché gesammelt, an welchen Sie sich das ganze Jahr erfreut. “Ich sehe einen Belsnickel und werde ganz […]
Auction Talk Germany: Basically BelsnickleSAXONY, Germany – Twenty years ago, Lorraine Jones of Peabody, Mass.,, told her husband she thought she would be content if she bought just one Belsnickle candy container. Forty-nine Belsnickles later, Jones has collected a small troop of the fragile German papier-mâché candy containers that bring her year-round joy. “I see a Belsnickle and get […]