Toothpick holders sold at a Virginia auction are featured in a sale report in Kovels on Antiques and Collectibles June 2015 newsletter. Small toothpick holders can bring high prices, like an art glass toothpick with cranberry swirl and mica flakes that brought $1,035. See pictures, descriptions and prices of other pattern and figural glass toothpick holders that sold from $46 to $4,600. The sophisticated and versatile forms of midcentury design are ideal for the office as well as the home. Kovels’ June newsletter pictures Mad Men worthy pieces still suitable for the modern office that sold in Palm Beach, Florida, where a lounge chair and ottoman by Charles and Ray Eames went for $3,500. And collectors skipped brown bagging and picked up metal lunch boxes from the 1950s and ‘60s at an April Missouri auction. About 300 metal lunch boxes that pictured classic movie and television characters like Mickey Mouse ($58), Popeye ($81) and Superman ($551) were sold, many with matching thermos. Old-school examples can be found with prices in Kovel’s June issue.

Late 19th century photographers documented everyday life, scenic views and historical events with photographic images that look three-dimensional, called stereoviews. People could relax in their parlors while seeing the country with a box of stereoview cards and a viewer. A single collection of stereoviews sold at a recent Cincinnati auction. Learn more about these stereoscopic photographs and see examples that sold for up to $2,700 in Kovels’ June newsletter. American and Swiss pocket watches from the turn of the 20th century sold at an Iowa auction where the top seller, an early E. Howard pocket watch in an engraved 18K gold hunting case, brought $5,650. Kovels’ latest issue has timely information about pocket watches, as well as pictures and prices of pieces by famous makers like Elgin, Waltham, Hebdomas and Agassiz.

Kim Kovel reports on the Parisian flea market scene. The popular illustrated Collector’s Gallery answers readers’ questions about a Herrington teddy bear, a Japanese Kinkozan urn, a “Lollipop” chair and an old wall phone. The June Dictionary of Marks pictures Depression glass patterns named after food. And prices of dozens of antiques and collectibles are listed in the Buyer’s Price Guide.

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