Welcome back to Hammer Drops! Every Wednesday, Back to the Past Collectibles shares some of its wisdom accumulated across thirty years selling collectibles. This week, we’re looking at how shipping factors into the world of collectibles selling. If you’re going to sell online, you are going to be shipping stuff out. It’s unavoidable and the…
Dive into history with 300 lots worth of fantastic estate finds, including paper ephemera! This session includes a wide variety of interesting items, from the vintage to the antique. This includes a 1996 Olympic jacket, glass photo negatives, vintage dog tags (both military and literal), Ripley’s Believe It or Not strips clipped from newspapers, a…
We’ve got issues – lots of them! 300 lots, to be specific, mostly consisting of comic books from the Golden through Bronze Ages (with a few modern ones sneaking their way in). They are bolstered by toy lots that range from a Marx Guns of Navarone playset from the 1970s up to modern toys based…
It’s Wednesday once again and Back to the Past returns with 200 lots worth of comics and toys that may as well be brand spanking new! The bulk of this week’s session consists of comic books from the late 80 to the present, all looking like they just got set out on the new issue…
Welcome 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…
Relive the days of yore with 300 lots of vintage estate finds, antiques, and NASA memorabilia! This session includes: – NASA memorabilia and collectibles including mission patches, framed space-used items, a real heat shield tile, toys, magazines, and more! – Tarzan novels, toys, and lobby cards! – Vintage to Antique scientific and industrial equipment like…
We all know that moment: it’s a horror movie. It’s dark. It’s tense. Suddenly, something leaps from the shadows and scares the pants off the hero (and the audience)….but its only a cat. Cue a sigh of relief before the audience now notices the monster lurking in the background…. This auction? It’s the cat. Our…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where we expound upon what we’ve learned in our thirty plus years in the collectibles racket, using recent auctions for illustration and examples. Today, we’re looking at few recent lots of modern Horror Comics that sold at auction for between $45-65 a piece. Lot 14 from December 9, sold for…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where we usually seek to learn from realized auction prices. Today, we’re looking away from our own auction house and decade to news about the estimated value of Mark McGwire’s 70th Home Run ball. Big Mac himself during that fateful season. The Lot St. Louis Cardinal Mark “Big Mac” McGwire…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where we discuss the how’s and why’s of prices we are seeing for items sold at auction! Today, we’re looking at how movie hype changes price over time with Lot #154 from our May 30th session. The Lot in Question The Lot 1986’s Legends #1-6 was DC’s second major crossover…