Kovels’ August 2021 newsletter features Victorian baby rattles, Indianapolis 500 memorabilia, Wedgwood majolica, Lalique glass, and modern chairs, all with photos and prices.
Midcentury modern style chairs embrace that era’s groundbreaking designs. Many are sought after by today’s collectors, like this Beaubourg chair, designed for the Pompidou Center in Paris. Sit down and enjoy chairs and their high prices.
Olympic pins are always highly sought after by collectors who have made pin trading a huge part of the Olympic experience. For the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, tech giant Alibaba is digitizing the practice of exchanging pins with something called the Alibaba Cloud Pin. Read more about it.
Q: We found this old Diamond Dyes cabinet in the basement of an old drugstore in 1962. It looks like it’s made of cherry. It’s 28 1/2 inches high, 12 1/2 inches wide, and 10 inches deep. The compartments inside are eight across and seven rows deep. There are a few pamphlets, sample cards, and packages of dye in the compartments. Some of the pamphlets are stamped with the name of the pharmacist, who bought the store in 1905 and ran it until he died in the 1940s. What is the value of this cabinet?
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