Vintage garb boosts its reach DenverPost.com – BUSINESS August 02, 2004 “Ten years ago you would not think you would have middle and upper-middle-class people shopping in consignment shops,’ Schallert said. ‘Now it’s like a treasure hunt to see what you are going to…

Tin toys break the mold for many collectors Northwest Herald – Online UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE “Yesterday’s tin creations are some of today’s priciest collectible toys. These colorful, windup playthings offered hours of mechanical fun as they…

Collecting: From Japanese Oddities to Objects of Desire The New York Times > Automobiles Published: July 26, 2004 By JOHN MATRAS “LOOKING back at the first Datsun trucks and Toyota sedans to arrive in the United States in the late 1950’s, it is easy to see…

The art of being a good collector www.stuff.co.nz 02 August 2004 By TERRY HALL “It cost about $12,000 to produce the book The Lord of the Rings in 1958. It is unlikely that author J R R Tolkien could have imagined a letter he wrote about it to a Dunedin…

PEZamists Unite! Collectors Insist Vintage Candy Dispensers Are Art ABCNEWS.com : Weird News: The Wolf Files By Buck Wolf “July 24 – Bring me the head of Adolph Hitler. That’s what a lot of PEZ collectors say. The very sight of an unauthorized Hitler…

Works by Vettriano expected to fetch 2m pounds plus The Scotsman – Entertainment KEVIN HURLEY “WHEN an Edinburgh couple paid 10,000 pounds for a painting by Jack Vettriano in 1991, they didn’t realise it was to prove the wisest investment of their…