Retro video games were auctioned in Dallas and are featured in a sale report in Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles May 2019 newsletter. Games from the 1980s and 1990s are now hot collectibles, especially in “right off the shelf” condition. Find favorite titles such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Legend of Zelda, Tetris and others that sold from $1,500 to $9,000. Artist Margaret De Patta is credited with starting the American studio jewelry movement on the West Coast. Her work is rarely seen, but a California auction featured some of her unique pieces. Kovels’ May newsletter pictures pins, cufflinks, a ring and a belt buckle by De Patta along with their hefty selling prices.

Ice skating art and memorabilia from the collection of former World and Olympic figure skating champion and skating analyst Dick Button was auctioned in North Carolina. Button’s collection ranged from paintings, prints and posters to antiques, advertising and curiosities that depict ice skating as both sport and pastime. Kovels’ pictures a sampling of items, including an early-20th-century hooked rug that sold for $8,400 and the Olympic torch he carried in the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games that brought $2,600.

A California doll auction offered a collection made in the 1930s to commemorate World War I. The dolls were dressed in detailed wool, flannel and khaki military uniforms from that era and carried accessories like rifles, ammunition pouches, backpacks, canteens and cooking pots. Kovels’ pictures examples of soldier and sailor dolls representing many countries in the May issue.

A collection of miniature furniture was auctioned in South Carolina. Many were salesman samples that sold for more than most regular-sized pieces today. Find meticulous miniature chairs, chests, desks and even a tester bed in Kovels’ latest issue. And Fiesta dinnerware still enjoys a large and ever-growing following. Kovels’ pictures vintage Fiesta items in some of the early colors, including a disk pitcher, coffeepot, mustard pot and bulb candleholders, that auctioned recently in Maryland.

Kovels’ May newsletter features a market report on repurposed flea market finds. The Dictionary of Marks pictures West German “fat lava” pottery pieces and their marks. The popular illustrated Collector’s Gallery answers readers’ questions about a New Era Potato Chips tin, a bentwood box, an English pottery pitcher and washbowl set, and a Turkish porcelain vase. And more than 70 antiques and collectibles are listed in the May Buyer’s Price Guide.

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