Welcome back to Hammer Drops! Each Wednesday, Back to the Past’s crack team of collectibles experts share our decades of collective wisdom with you. To help keep things on track, we illustrate our lessons with examples from recent auctions. This week is no different, with us explaining the value that can be found in mistakes…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Every Monday, Back to the Past stops to dote on a particular piece we’re selling. This could mean going into its individual history, the history of where it comes from, its place in pop culture, or even how we came to posses it. This week’s entry is not…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero! Every Friday, we here at Back to the Past tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are worth knowing. Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops! Every Wednesday, the collectibles pros at Back to the Past share our collective century’s worth of industry experience with you. This week is no different, and we’re looking at a group of eleven lots from our December 18th auction session. The question to answer is this: why did menus from…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! This is a weekly dive into the history of the fabulous collectible treasures we sell every day, be they public service announcement comic books or pieces of NASA equipment. We apologize to any readers with coulrophobia, as this week’s subject is a 1948 Bozo The Clown lamp! Bozo:…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero! Each week, Back to the Past uses this column to tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops! If you follow auction news like we do, you saw a pretty interesting headline this week. Over one-thousand books from the personal library of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg are coming to auction later this month, courtesy of Bonhams auction house. This got us thinking about the idea of…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Every Monday, we here at Back to the Past pause a moment to go gaga over the cool stuff we’re handling every single day. Today’s specimen sold at auction over the weekend, but the collection it came from is far from through. It’s an authentic piece of Skylab,…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied to them…
DetailsWelcome back to Hammer Drops! Each week, Back to the Past reads the tea leaves of recent auctions, interprets them through the lens of our collective decades of experience, and share our best tips with you. Today, we’re looking at some comics from recent auctions to determine if there’s any value to be had in…
DetailsWelcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! In these pages, Back to the Past dives into the histories of the cool stuff we handle each and every day. Today’s subject is the program from the March 21st 1969 basketball game played by Los Angeles Lakers against the Atlanta Hawks. That game was deemed “Elgin Baylor…
DetailsWelcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied to them…
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