Toy cook stoves are featured with pictures and prices in Kovels on Antiques and Collectibles October 2014 newsletter. A buyer paid $4,320 for a Great Majestic Junior stove at a Pennsylvania auction where more than 150 antique and vintage toy stoves were sold. It’s not just small fry who love miniature stoves – they’re hot collectibles today. Many women today still love to wear a big showy cocktail ring. A summer Detroit auction offered vintage cocktail rings with semiprecious stones in settings of real gold. Kovels October newsletter dazzles with pictures of sparkling cocktail rings that sold for under $800. A major collection of iron cookware from America’s early years sold at a summer Massachusetts auction and attracted high prices. A standing horseshoe-shaped broiler that auctioned for $6,150 was the top seller. Kovels offers pictures, descriptions and prices of useful and creative cookware and hearth equipment made by clever blacksmiths more than 200 years ago.

It’s October – so it’s a good time for Kovels newsletter to report on football and baseball memorabilia. A North Carolina sports auction’s inaugural sale featured lots of items that could turn up in an attic or an old drawer – from a 1915 World Series game ticket that sold for $5,452 to a bat-shaped pen and pencil set that went for $29. Find more items in Kovels October newsletter. Collectors looking for antique display cabinets to show off small collectibles scored some bargains at a Kansas auction, where lighted cabinets with glass doors and shelves sold for very reasonable prices. Pictures, prices and descriptions of various styles are included in Kovels October issue. And most old skates aren’t worth much and won’t sell. But Kovels pictures five pairs of unusual old roller and ice skates that sparked some interest at a New York auction and sold from $23 to $263.

Terry Kovel goes on the road to the annual antiques show in Gates Mills, Ohio. New Uses for Old Stuff pictures a display stand made from a silver fork. The popular illustrated Collector’s Gallery answers readers’ questions about a Mickey Mouse child’s plate, Philip Morris “bellboy,” an unusual Victorian revolving bookcase and a baking powder tin. October’s Dictionary of Marks lists marks used by American manufacturers of graniteware. The Buyer’s Price Guide has current prices of dozens of antiques and collectibles.

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