Why These Antique & Vintage Collectibles Still Matter Today!

We are going all over the world in this video. We're going to Switzerland, we're going to France, we're going to England, we're even going to Disneyland. But our first stop is in ancient Australia, the land of the dinosaurs. Okay, not too ancient, because these are erstwilder dinosaurs. An erstwilder is a form of jewelry that started in Melbourne only about 15 years ago. I don't usually sell newer items, but there is something about erstwilder jewelry. And that is that they make it in very limited amounts for a very limited time. So even though this is only from 2021, this neck-and-neck pin with the two dinosaurs is out of production and will not be reintroduced. And that is something that I look for. I want things that are not currently available. There is the erstwilder signature on the back of this. That's how you can tell it apart from Elias Stein or one of the other companies that did this sort of phenolic stacked resin jewelry. You can see its various layers. Done much like Elias Stein a generation after. You can see even the same sorts of riveting in the clips. Erstwilder was named because it was going to be erstwhile, meaning of the past. But then they realized that they were doing a lot of animal designs. They have guest designers. They have actually produced things that people like you and me have sent them. So they have a lot of different designers. Some come, some go. And it makes for a very diverse line of items that are produced in fairly limited quantities for a fairly short period of time. And that's why they're collectible. And that's why you're seeing pins like this selling from anywhere from $35 to $75 and up on eBay. So we will put this one on eBay right now, along with all of the items that you're going to see in this video. And they will be for sale. I think we're starting this one at $19.99. We will see if the dinosaurs go back to their homeland, or if they are resurrected in someone's jewelry box here in the United States, Canada, or Mexico. That is a far cry in age from our second piece, which is this cart shell cameo. This is 150 years older than the piece we just showed you. This is from the 1870s when ancient cameos were rediscovered in Rome and became all the rage, but then were made out of shells carved in a cameo form where you reveal a layer below a layer. And they had nice contrast in color. So these became very popular. This one is from Rome from about 1875. And this one is a scene, which is unusual. Typically they're portraits. If you do see a scene, it's generally biblical, such as Rebecca the Well. So this is different. And it was so different and so interesting and so large at about 2 1⁄2 inches just for the oval that when somebody dropped it, they had it repaired the only way they knew how to safely do it back then, which is a staple repair. Why did it get dropped? Well, it has this interesting slide bar mechanism here, but it still, being Victorian only, had this catch, a C-clasp, not a safety cap. So at some point it got snagged, it fell off of somebody's outfit, and it was smashed. And they loved it so much, they had it put back together again. Back then, glues were not considered very reliable, so they would do staple repair. They would drill tiny, tiny holes and put staples in to bring the pieces together. You can see the way it was done from the back. There are people who collect things just because they're staple repaired. Although, this could go to a cameo collector as well. Obviously, it's imperfect, and I know that I'm generally a real stickler for perfection and condition with things like this, but this is a one-of-a-kind. It was carved by hand. It is truly antique, and the repair is part of the collector interest with this piece. So, we are going to put this one up right now. I'm not sure what to expect, because it's repaired, and who the collector ultimately will be. Will it be someone who likes Victorian jewelry? Will it be a cameo collector? Or will it be somebody who thinks that these repairs are quite interesting? You typically only see these repairs on expensive porcelain from that time, so this is an unusual thing to have. We're going to stick to the little things for a little while here, because this next piece is very, very cute. It's very springy, and it's, again, quite old, a true antique. A Chelsea Derby porcelain figurine of a sheep. Made in England, Chelsea Company was the first important porcelain maker in England. It took a long time for the various houses of Europe to figure out the secrets of making porcelain. For many, many centuries, only the Chinese knew how to do it, and they weren't telling. And when the European houses started to figure it out, well, then every other country wanted to have a royal porcelain maker. Chelsea started in London in 1745, and being right in London, they could reach a luxury market of merchants and people who had money for such things. And you can tell that it's Chelsea because of the anchor mark on the bottom. There's a series of similar anchor marks that were done on Chelsea porcelain of the time. This one has a little bit of wear on the spaghetti, as we call it nowadays, right here, but it is a really cute little piece. It's not cracked or broken in any way. It's got a great face. The paint is all still there. Look how content and happy this little lamb is. Chelsea started doing miniatures almost right away in the 1740s, but they were mostly functional. It took a while before they did the Chelsea toys that were critters and that sort of thing. It's a wonderful piece. We really just don't see a lot of Chelsea pottery. Just after the first gold mark ended, they merged with a company called Derby, and they ended up moving out of London because their land was so valuable that the factory was torn down and put into other purposes. The Chelsea mark continues later in time, but this is still a fairly early piece, probably early Victorian. Chelsea was very popular in the Regency era of England. For those of you who watch Bridgerton or the related tales, Queen Charlotte, the actual Queen Charlotte, sent her brother Adolphus in Austria an entire set of the dinnerware to show how wonderful English porcelain was. It was considered very, very good, even by the royalty in that time. Even though this is just a little bitty piece, the value may be on the high side because it is a miniature and because it has this old, old mark on it. We are going to start this piece at $9.99 and just see what happens. We're not doing a Buy It Now on this one. We do have Buy It Nows on some pieces though, and so if you're seeing this video and you go to the links in the description below and you hit a Buy It Now and it's not there, it means someone beat you to it, and that might be one of our Level 2 and Level 3 members because they give us the extra support that it takes for us to take the time to do these deep dives, and so they get this video released early to them. If you want early release of this video so that you can get in on the action, you can take a Level 2 or 3 membership either on the main channel or on Patreon. Well, for our next stop, we have another thing that is in miniature, but it is a little different kind of miniature, and it's very cute, and we're going all the way up to 1905 now, and this is the Buffalo Brewing Company of Sacramento. Buffalo Brewing was a very large brewery by California standards in the early days, and they did very well until Prohibition, and this is a pre-Prohibition piece because on the back, you have this wonderful courting couple that says May we kiss whom we please and please whom we kiss, and look at the owl in the tree up above. That is just really fun, and that was a rather radical motto at the time because it was only around the turn of the 20th century that marriages started to be more about falling in love and being with somebody you thought might be your soulmate as opposed to marriages being arranged for family reasons or for reasons of money. Now, what is this little thing? Well, this is actually a toothpick holder, and if you see here, it has the 1905 patent date by the Hygienic Toothpick Company of Toledo, Ohio, and you open this up, and it tells you on the flap that H.I. Seymour is the manager of the Buffalo Brewery at that time, and here are some of the brands that they sell, Bohemian, New Brew, Select Export, and something called Kuhnbacher because like most breweries, they were founded by Germans, so they brought a lot of the German traditions with them. Our beers are made from selected material and are guaranteed pure. Patent 1905. The toothpicks are in here. It's all original. It's in perfect condition, and it's pre-prohibition. Now, it could just sell because somebody thinks that's a sweet sentiment. It could sell to somebody in Sacramento who's interested in local history, but the likelihood is it will sell to somebody who collects pre-prohibition breweriana because that is a very popular category within alcohol and bar collecting, and so it's not a huge piece, but it's a really cool piece. I'd never seen one before, and we are going to start this at $9.99. I think it likely will settle somewhere around $20. Maybe more? We'll find out. Now, if you had a little too much Kuhnbacher, you might need this product. This was Nature's Remedy, and Nature's Remedy says take one tonight. You'll feel better in the morning. Notice the hyphen between two and night. Today and tonight used to be hyphenated words. This is around 1920. Better than pills for liver ills. Get at 25 cents per box. I love the face on this, and they're happily taking the pill in hopes of feeling better. Nature's Remedy was a whole bunch of herbs and other things mushed together into a pill, and if you flip the back, well, you see, aha, a little bit of a sticker I need to get off, but this is a pocket mirror, and there is an infinite image of it right there for you. Pocket mirrors were very popular to give out in the 19-teens and early 20s as advertising pieces because you'd have them in your purse, and then when you suddenly were feeling the need for Nature's Remedy, well, then you'd be reminded to get it. It had juniper berries and sarsaparilla. It was an all vegetable laxative, so it was actually relatively healthy for a lot of things made in that period of time, and it's just such a great graphic. Such a great graphic that they gave a lot of these out. They're not super uncommon, but they are worth somewhere in the $25-$30 range. We have a buyout now of $29. We're starting it out at just $9.99, so we'll see where this goes. We have one other pocket mirror to show you a little later that is interesting for a different reason. The price of gold has shot up to a record high as I'm filming this, and it's not surprising. There's a lot of economic upheaval and uncertainty right now, and people see gold as a safe haven when that happens. This is not the first time that's been true. It happened in the 1970s as well, when we were taken off of the gold and silver standards, and the United States sold most of its gold, and so the gold market started to be allowed to fluctuate. It had been pegged at $35 an ounce for years. It is now $3,500 an ounce, so it's gone up 100 times since the 1970s. When this ring was made, this is a 10-carat marked gold ring, and it is an award from Farmer Brothers, Farmer Brothers' copy of San Francisco. Now, the blue stone in there I assume is glass. It does not have a hole in the back to breathe like a natural stone, but it does have an inscription inside, which you may or may not be able to read, but it was inscribed to Bud Ketman, who was a senior sales manager for Farmer Brothers. Farmer Brothers primarily is an institutional company. They sell coffee to restaurants, and hospitals, and cafeterias, and places like that. And until Starbucks came along with the retail, Farmer Brothers was the big coffee company on the West Coast. Now, this ring is fairly large. I wear a 7. It's very loose on my finger. I think it's probably about a 9 or 10. So it's rather big. It's got a nice chunk of gold in it. I don't have a way to weigh it without the stone, but I think it's somewhere around a half ounce of 10-carat gold. 10-carat means 38% gold, and the rest is an alloy. But gold is so expensive now that even at 38%, this piece is probably worth somewhere in the $250 range. And it's got really cool logos and interesting things. If you are a coffee buff or you just like award pieces, consistently good Farmer Brothers Coffee 1912. That's when they were established. And around the edge here, it talks about Farmer Brothers Coffee Circle of Success. So you had to be pretty good to wear this ring. It is actually a good thumb ring for me, so that gives you an idea of the size. It is definitely hefty. For all those reasons, I think this should be of interest right now. Honestly, with the price of gold so high, we are going to lose a lot of things like this. Many, many gold items will be taken to scrap because the value of the gold is so high. Now, if you're talking QVC jewelry you bought 20 years ago and maybe paid a little too much at the time, but now the gold's worth a lot more, well, that's a great thing to do with it. But if you're talking about something that is an award or personalized or has some other interest, well, we're hoping that maybe a collector, maybe someone who was involved with Farmer Brothers when they were still in California before they moved to Texas, maybe somebody who just thinks that award rings are cool, or who doesn't really care what it says but realizes that this is going to be a very impressive ring if you have it on your finger from a distance. I had a friend this isn't actually legal in a sense, but it is the way she did it she really liked to wear jewelry. She also had taken martial arts. I said, aren't you afraid of your rings getting stolen? And she said, do you notice how big and sharp they are? It's like having brass knuckles. And I thought, whoa, never thought of that. So, who knows? Maybe that's your reason for buying something like this. But I think somebody out there will really like it, and I have no doubt that it will go for a good price because of the nature of the material itself. You know, gold is something that doesn't tarnish it's a very hard material and that's the reason that it's always been so prized. And we are in a period where people are really into the color gold as well. You're seeing brass coming back into style. So, a good time to have gold and if you don't, well, here's your chance. Now, speaking of people who liked a lot of gold, well there was this guy. Mr. T, the real life superhero. This is indeed the authentic galoob action figure in the original box from 1983 when the A-team was really at it's peak of popularity. And Mr. T was at the peak of popularity. Nancy Reagan even sat on his lap. Mr. T is his legal name now, but he was born into this world as Lawrence Tarod. And Lawrence Tarod grew up in the projects in Chicago and had a pretty rough life. And he watched his father and uncles go fight in wars and do a lot of heroic things and then come back to be called Boy. And he didn't like that very much. And so he legally took the name Mr. T because he said I will be given respect and now my first name is Mister so they will never call me Boy. Which is pretty clever actually. The more I have looked into Mr. T's life and background, he's actually a pretty smart guy. He managed to get out of the projects, go to college, became bodyguard for a lot of really famous people including Michael Jackson and Diana Ross at various points and Steve McQueen. That was on the basis of the fact that he'd been a bouncer at various clubs. And he got picked to be on a tough man competition on television. And he won because he was really that tough. And why did he wear all the jewelry? Well, he wore all the jewelry because when he was a bouncer if somebody would have a bar fight and maybe their jewelry would come off or get thrown at somebody or get lost or dropped on the floor, he would be at the front door wearing it. And if they came back to claim it, they could get it from him without going back in the bar. Which they didn't want to do because if he threw you out, you didn't come back. So that's how Mr. T got started. The haircut is because he was reading National Geographic and he saw a picture of West African Mandelika warriors and they had a similar hairstyle. And he thought it looked pretty tough. And it certainly did. I mean, take a look at the back of the box. I would not mess with that guy. The most extraordinary man you could ever meet. He's big and bold. He's the boss. I would say that was true. He actually became the most popular of the stars on the A-team and was making $80,000 an episode, which was a lot of money in 1983, and kind of rankled the other stars on the show who thought they were going to be the big name. This is in the box. It's original. It's got everything. He's got lots of jewelry. There is a small hole in the cellophane. There's a little bit of creasing on the front that you can see. But all in all, it's a good original piece. And definitely Mr. T has always been an original as well. I know that there's somebody out there who just loved Mr. T in the 1980s who collects action figures and here is your chance to get this one back. They actually sell pretty well. He should go between about $80 and $100 potentially, but we're starting him off at half that at $39.99. So, somebody will have a lot of fun having this on their shelf. Now, if you're an 80s kid who was more interested in sweet things, well, this is berry, berry sweet. This is Strawberry Shortcake. And Strawberry Shortcake in 1980 was a new concept. That's her comb rattling around that you hear. She does have it. Because this one has never been out of the original box. It's got the original tape still. And she has the flat hand, which makes her an earlier edition. See how the bottoms of the hands are not cupped. That makes her even a little bit more desirable. Strawberry Shortcake had an interesting beginning. She started as an American Greetings card drawn in 1973 by Barbie Sargent. She almost became the spokes girl for a whole bunch of hard fruit candies. But they decided not to use her that way. And that turned out to be a good thing because instead she ended up becoming a TV star. She was updated for television in 1979. The first specials came out in 1980 and continued through 1985. They were very, very popular. She had a whole world around her. There are many other characters that have dolls in the box. I have an almond tea at Lander Street Vintage for sale right now in fact. And they all had a mascot, except for Strawberry Shortcake, an animal or something that had a similarly saccharine-y sweet name. They were all named after various kinds of fruit or food. All things that were very nice. And everything in their world was very, very good. And this was one of the first times they came out with the TV show and an entire world of toys to choose from right away. Her cart, the bake shop, the carousel. She had lots of friends. Blueberry Muffin. Apple Dumplin with Tea Time Turtle. See, there's the mascot. And Huckleberry Pie. There was even a bicycle. They made one million Strawberry Shortcake bicycles. It's a very collectible bicycle now. Strawberry Shortcake stuff in general is very popular because a whole lot of little girls in the late 70s are in their mid-40s now. And this is their nostalgia. And the mid-40s are when a lot of people start collecting. So the prices on Strawberry Shortcake, especially sealed early generation in the box, can be pretty high. She may sell for as much as $100 or more. And that was a real surprise to me. I did not expect that when I picked her up, but I'm glad I did. And I think someone else who's a collector will be glad I did too, because she's just in such great shape and all complete. We're going to start her at $9.99, but like I say, I think the actual settling price will be quite a bit higher. And you can follow along with these listings and see. Part of the reason we do this is because by doing it on eBay Auctions, we get a picture within 10 days of what the market is now for these items. And we hope that that's useful for other resellers, for collectors, and just fun to see happen, because then you learn what we learn about these interesting objects and what the current interest in the marketplace is. Now if your tastes are a little more grown up and sophisticated than those things, well, you might be stepping out somewhere and if you're stepping out, you might need a lovely purse to take with you. And I really like this one, especially under a good light, which we have here, because this is microbeaded. This is Joseph. Joseph is a good name in purses. They are mainly French and Belgian. They're 1950s and 60s. This one has the Joseph Belgium label on it. It is in wonderful shape. Look at that beautiful cobalt lining. This is a deep navy color. All these little bugle beads, these microbeads sewn together by hand. It's made with very good quality, interesting patterning. I just think these are really pretty. Sometimes they have floral designs. This one has a little surprise in it. I don't know whether it went with it originally, but we're leaving it in, because it is similar. It appears to be a glasses case, although you could use it for any number of things. It opens here, and it's about five and a half inches long. It seems to be a darker color, but this is just a really cool thing. When I opened it and found it, I thought, okay, that's a bonus to me, and it's a bonus to the next person. It is in wonderful immaculate condition. I have a friend who hangs these on her wall in Oregon. It's right by the door, and if she wants to take one when she goes out, she just grabs the one she wants for the day. They make great wall art. There's a lot of reasons people buy these. This is not the same Joseph with two Fs that did the jewelry in Hollywood. This is a different company, and we honestly don't know a whole lot about their designers, but they did a wonderful job. That much we do know. If you happen to know more about this company, say you're a viewer in Europe, we would love to know more here in the United States about this, because information seems to be somewhat lacking, and yet we see a lot of these beautiful purses that were made by them. Leave us a comment. Notice the difference in how tight the microbeads are. Very different from the Hong Kong-made purses of the 1960s that were copying this. They're fun, and they're showy, and they have lots of spangles, and they're also very loose, and this has a lot of weight. The Hong Kong purses typically don't. They're just not the same kind of quality. So, this one is something you can carry around, and it will last a long time. We are starting this at $29.99. We have a buy it now of just $45, so not terribly expensive for what it is, especially compared to a new purse. So, we're going to put that right on and see who gets to step out in style. Well, speaking of style, this next item was a style must-have in the 1980s and 90s, and that is because it is a swatch. Swatches stood for Swiss watch or second watch, and both were appropriate because the Swiss watch industry was really struggling in the late 70s. You can see it still works. I've got a new battery in there. The Swiss watch industry was a luxury product. It was all very well made. It was all made using mechanics, and then the quartz watch came out, and the quartz watches were so much less expensive, kept great time, and all of a sudden, Swiss watches were in a lot of trouble. And Swatch figured out that to bring the emphasis back on Swiss watches, they needed an entry-level watch, a second watch that was something that was fun, stylish, and yes, made with the quartz movement so that it could be price competitive enough, but not super cheap because it was all about style. This was part of the Snowpass line, meaning it was made to be easy to take on and put off. When you were wearing ski gloves, this one was used a little, as you can tell. Not too roughly. It's pretty clean overall. The Velcro is pretty good and not super threadbare or anything because Velcro can wear out after a while, so it's in pretty good shape overall. It does work, as you can see. There's the back of it. When they first came out, the original watches were 50 Swiss francs, which was actually a fair amount of money, but not compared to a Swiss watch. And so to make them worth the extra money, it was all about style. They sold a million different styles. They got people like Keith Herring to do designs for them. And so it got continued with this line for the winter sports enthusiasts. This is the key watch function version. It's got the original box. By this time, they were selling for 70 Swiss francs, so some real money, even though it was a sports watch and a fun watch. And that's what people like about them. That's why they're collectible now. People remember them fondly. There's so many different designs. I think this one's pretty attractive. I think this one's pretty attractive with the black and gold and red combination. And I think someone else will, too. It does have all the original paperwork in about 16 different languages. So, it's a very complete piece with the box. We're going to start it at $19.99. Our buy it now is probably less than it costs new. Well, while we're on the subject of fancy European luxury goods, this next piece might surprise you. It's a very pretty pattern. I kept thinking it seemed vaguely familiar, and then I realized when I was with Berner Brothers in Ohio in a big mansion where they were going to buy out the estate, they got very excited about a set similar to this. And at first, I wasn't sure why until we looked at the bottom. And this one, under the $125 original price tag for this creamer, a little hard to see. I didn't want to peel the whole sticker off. But that is the head of Medusa. And that means this is Versace. And Versace, of course, a very famous luxury brand, and they had these made by Rosenthal. And Rosenthal is one of the best current producing porcelain makers in Europe today. Rosenthal started in the 1800s in Germany. They did a lot of wonderful moss rose patterns and other things that are very quaint and Victorian. They were confiscated by the Nazis because they did not like the Nazis, and they fled. And they got their factory back after a lot of haranguing after the Second World War and started production again. And a great thing that they did, because part of the reason Rosenthal is still in business, is they had the understanding that the market was changing. And they started doing studio line pieces with a lot of famous mid-century designers. And then they got the contract with Versace, and they made really good quality porcelain. And between that and the Versace name, that's why a creamer in the 1980s in this arabesque pattern was selling for $125 new. And this stuff is not cheap on the aftermarket today either. Versace itself is not that old a company. Gianni Versace only started his company in 1978 after about five years as a designer for other people. So his rise was rather meteoric. His designs hit the Milan runways. They were just right for the era. And so Versace became very popular very quickly, especially in the 1980s as a luxury brand. Famously, of course, he was friends with Princess Diana. And he did all of her outfits for her after she separated from Prince Charles and was on the market again. So that tells you the kind of crowd that he was running with. Elton John is a big fan of his. A lot of men and women have worn Versace and advertised Versace. They had a lot of commercials with famous people in them. They were very smart about how they grew their company and very smart about who they had make things under the Versace name. And that's why they picked Rosenthal. The quality on this is wonderful. We are starting it at only $39.99. Our buyout now is $125 because we do see them still selling for the price that they sold for new. We have a celebrity next who you've probably never heard of. I had never heard of. Turns out we all should have. And if we'd been around a century ago, we would know who Harry Pilser is. Because Harry Pilser, with the French writing below, was not French but was American. But his wife was French. And her name was Gabi Dali. And Gabi Dali was very popular in the United States as well as in France. And she and Harry Pilser, right before the First World War, were big Broadway stars. They were on their way to becoming the most famous dancing duo in the United States. This is long before Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. They both starred in the movie The Triumph in 1915, which was a triumph, and then were cast on Broadway in the Irving Berlind musical Stop, Look, Listen, which is famous enough that I have heard of that one, and I suspect some of you have as well. Why isn't Harry Pilser known more today outside of the Broadway and dance crowds? Well, unfortunately, his wife died of the Spanish Influenza in 1920. And because of that, he pretty much ended his acting and Broadway career, moved to Europe, and became a choreographer and a trainer of other dancers, as well as the master of ceremonies at casinos in Cannes and Deauville. So, he had a great life, but unfortunately, he had to have it on his own. This pocket mirror would have been given out in France sometime right around the end of his performing career. And there you see it as a pocket mirror. Here's another endless image for you. It's in great shape, and they're not very common. We don't see a lot of celebrity pocket mirrors, so I'm not really sure what to expect as far as how this will do, because who has another one? Is it so obscure to us now that people won't bid on it, or is it so unusual that people who are in the know will think this is very special and hard to find, which I'm sure it is, and bid it up? We'll find out together. We are going to start it out at just $9.99. We're not going to do a buy it now, because we don't know the answer to that. We're going to let the market tell us. I went to an estate sale in Seattle recently, and I went specifically because I really liked this piece, and I promised myself that if it was priced below a certain amount, that I would buy it and put it on eBay and share it with you, and that way we can see what the market really is, because you just don't see this one very often. This is Weller Two-Tone, and look at the great colors, first of all. This came out in the late 20s when you see it marked, which it often is not. This one has no mark. When it does have a mark, it has an ink stamp with the Weller pottery and the arch. When I say it's not marked, that doesn't mean it doesn't have any marking. There is a mark here. That is just so that they could take it back to the production line and figure out who the decorator is, so that's a decorator mark. But if you didn't know this was Weller, you might not know it was Weller. You might actually think it was Muncie pottery because of the color scheme and the way it variegates. You might think it was Roseville because it has that quality to it, but it is indeed Weller, and it is a vase that is a pillow vase and also a flower arranger on top, which is rather unusual. They had this in a very large triangular vase at the sale, along with some other smaller pots and things that you do see time to time, and I just thought this was so special that I went ahead and picked it up. My hunch is that in the right place for the right collector, this is probably worth between $125 and $150 because it's a great line you don't see often. The colors are really fun and it's got that peephole. It's a complex piece because of the way it was made. When you have this sort of thing, yeah, you can mold it, but then you have to pour all the slip out, and this is a pretty complicated mold to do right. And so it's just something I think is really fun, very pretty, just as good on the backside as it does the front. So we're going to put this out there. I think it's a beautiful piece and I'm curious to see who collects this. This next piece came from a true prodigy, a feller by the name of Bob Feller. From the 1930s to the mid-1950s, Bob Feller was a really good pitcher. He played for the Cleveland Indians back when they were still called that, and he still shares the record for the most one-hitters in baseball with 12. He pitched a lot of no-hitters, and back when they first started measuring the speed of pitches, they measured it differently than we do now. They measured it when it crossed the plate. He could throw a 100-mile-an-hour fastball across the plate. Now, the way they measure it, which is at the point of release, that would be 110 miles an hour, which is almost unheard of even today and even during the steroid gate period of baseball. So he was really impressive, and he lived a nice long life. He managed to survive his being drafted into World War II. He managed to retire from the Indians, and he managed to keep on going long enough that he ended up at the Rugby Batting Championship in 1991, and a fellow named Frank came to see him and said, would you please autograph this hat? And Bob Feller was happy enough to do it, and so there it is. I found this hanging on a wall of hats at an estate sale. They didn't really go through them, so they didn't see that this one was signed. Now, Bob Feller did sign a lot of stuff, but it's really cool to me that he signed this particular piece at a batting championship, so he still remained interested in the game. I don't know if he was doing some scouting for somebody there, but it's just really neat that somebody casually walked up and said, hey, I know who you are, and he said, well, of course I'd be happy to sign for you. It's baseball season. A lot of people start really adding to their collections if they're baseball fans, and I thought this was a perfect time to put this out. So we're going to start this out at $9.99. We have a buy it now of, I believe, $25 on it, so a not expensive but fun memory for somebody who loves baseball. Now, speaking of sporting celebrities, there was a time when they won World Series, which Bob Feller did once, where they did not say afterwards, I'm going to Disneyland, because Disneyland didn't exist until this year when this flyer came out. This is an original 1955 information flyer from Disneyland when it is a brand new attraction. So brand new that when you look on the back and you see the map of Los Angeles, there's one big freeway, and it's the 101. It's not even called I-5 yet, and it takes you down to Anaheim, and that's how you get to Disneyland. And here is a list of the adventures awaiting you, because people didn't know what Disneyland was yet, so they had to tell you that you would get to see all of this. So you see Main Street, you see the boat ride, you see the World Bazaar, you see a Western stage show, you see the sky ride, you see what we now call Thunder Mountain in Frontierland, and, of course, some of your favorite characters, although, interestingly enough, in this early incarnation of Disneyland, the characters are not really as much of the emphasis as they are in later years. Although you do have Dumbo flying on the front of it with the Disneyland banner. What will it cost? Disney might want to go back and revisit this. Disneyland is designed for the enjoyment of everyone and always will be, and that's why general admission for children under 12 is 50 cents. And for juniors aged 12 to 17, 70 cents. And for adults, 90 cents. Now if you figure that out adjusted for inflation, that is far less than a ticket to Disneyland costs today. How long should we plan to stay? Surveys of our guests reveal that most visitors make a full day of their trip. Now you have to stay about five days to see it all, so maybe that's why it's so expensive. This is actually a pretty hard piece to find because it's from the very earliest incarnation of the park. One of these sold recently on eBay for $75. Will this one? Well, I don't know because, you know, when you have the second one, you get the second customer, the one who didn't bid $75. So we'll see who the second customer is and how much they're willing to pay. Now to get to Disneyland in 1955, you might have driven in not your father's but maybe your grandfather's Oldsmobile. With a clip-on visor mirror just like this one. Oh yes, the mirror works very well. There you can see the Oldsmobile lettering on the top. They had a different version that was for the driver's side where you would keep track of your mileage and things, but this one was for the passenger's side, so it just has the bare logo. This might have been on your Rocket 88 or your old Fiesta station wagon. My dad had an old Starfire that he got clocked doing 100 miles an hour in almost, and he got a big whopping ticket. They were very fast because the Rocket 88 engine, the 8-cylinder that they introduced in the 50s, was a screamer. An Oldsmobile at that time was a little more upscale than certainly a Chevy and even a step above a Pontiac. It was basically the blue-collar working man's equivalent of a Buick. That was their niche in the market. This mirror is in great shape. It has one little tiny spot here that's gone a little bit, but it isn't really losing the silvering on the back at all. The clips are good. You don't have to necessarily be a car fan to want something like this because you could clip this up anywhere that you need a mirror. I hadn't had one in a long time. They typically sell for about $25. We're going to put this one up for $9.99 and see where it goes. Maybe it went to Disneyland originally. Ten years after that, when the kids had grown up, maybe what you wanted was a personal luxury car. And the car that set that trend and really started out that whole niche was the Ford Thunderbird. This is its shop manual from 1965. Now, a shop manual isn't as interesting in terms of graphics as, say, oh, an owner's manual that shows the car, if you're just a car enthusiast. But if you are working on a Ford Thunderbird, it has invaluable information. And that's why these old shop manuals sell for pretty good money. And this one in particular should do well because it's a real one. First printing, 1964, when the car came out in September of 64. It was a rakish car. It was a beautiful car. They're very collectible now. It was about the end of the small intermediate size Thunderbird personal luxury cars. They got much bigger and more and more bloated after this. So it was the last of the really sleek Thunderbirds that we think of synonymous with that name. And finding this particular book in this condition is not that easy to do. Now, granted, it does have some soiling because it had other manuals on top of it in the shop that have lots of ambient dust, and it sat there for many years. So you see some darkness here. You see a little bit of evidence of use on the edges here. But the inside is clean. There's minor creasing. All in all, it's a really good working copy. And the fact that it's the original rather than the reprint, considering the reprints are selling for $35 to $40, makes me think there's some pretty good value to this. And it did not cost much. This is something to know if you're a reseller and you're in a place and you're like, oh, what would I want in the garage? This is the kind of thing you might want from the garage. Easy to ship, interesting, and a regular market. So, we're going to put this out there and hopefully someone will use it to fix up their 65 and go cruising this summer. Well, my backdrop has all but disappeared because I am bringing the last piece from the backdrop up to show you now. I think it's really cool. It is a Seagram's 100 Pipers bar lamp from the 1960s. Late 60s, in fact. And the reason we know that is because when this came out, also in 1965, it was made with a Scottish flag. And in 1969, they dropped the Scottish flag and changed the logo accordingly to the Pipers. But what's neat about it is the way it lights up. It's got texture. It's a textured plastic. It's a triangular sign that would have hung on a wall so that you would see it from two different perspectives. You could also put it in a corner, I suppose, if you hung it right. It's got all the original hanging points on it. It's in great shape, no cracks, nothing missing. 100 Pipers was a big deal for Seagram's because they wanted to make a really nice Scotch whiskey. And they ended up blending 25 different Scotch whiskeys to get this formula. And why the 100 Pipers? Well, the 100 Bag Pipers were part of the group that led the last Scottish uprising against England. So that's something that in Scottish lore is considered a big part of their history. But oddly enough, the place today where 100 Pipers is the most popular is Thailand. For some reason, they like 100 Pipers Scotch whiskey better per capita than any other place in the world. But it is something that you'll find in liquor stores here in the United States. The bar light? Well, these are long gone. This is over 50 years old, and it still works great. And there's so much interest in breweriana now and these lights. And so because of that, I expect that it might sell for around $75. We are starting it at $39.99. I actually have a buy it now that's slightly lower than what I think the piece might sell for because if somebody really wants it and grabs it, well, they'll be happy and so will we. We have two items left and one is a cute thing from childhood and one is an artful and kind of racy thing from adulthood. So we're going to start with the childhood one and then if you have any little children watching, well, you may want to put them to bed before we show you the last item. Our childhood item is this set here from 1984. A lot of things for 80s kids tonight, but that is where a lot of the market is now. Collecting starts with nostalgia. Childhood nostalgia is a lot of that. And the 1980s, well, those kids are in their 40s now. There's an ABC plate and accompanying mug in the Alphabet Bears series by Tiffany and Company. So if you were born with a silver spoon, well, you could use it to scoop food out of this if you were a little kid. This one doesn't look like it ever was used. And here's the mug that goes along. Alphabet Bears because like the old time ABC plates that originated in England back around 1800, well, this has all the letters of the alphabet around the edge. And every one is accompanied by a bear doing something. It's just very cute. And they did a lot of other things in this series, too. Tiffany and Company in 1984 was looking for a comeback. They had been purchased by Avon in the late 70s. And Avon is a good company, but Avon is a squarely middle class company, and they did not really know what to do with Tiffany. There were articles in the New York Times around 1980 talking about how going to Tiffany was like going to a Macy's white sale. And everything had gotten really cheap and downmarket, and it didn't feel like Tiffany's anymore. And that was a big problem. And Avon came to realize that that merger was not a good choice. And so they sold it to a private group who took it over and started to bring things like this in, in order to rejuvenate the Tiffany name. And so Alphabet Bears ended up being a popular series that lasted for a number of years. Tiffany got its mojo back, and of course is considered very highly again today. This set is going to be sold as a set. I see people selling them individually, but since we have both pieces, we're going to sell them together. And we're going to start them at $9.99. I believe the selling price will be somewhere between $35 and $50. We'll find out together now. And that brings us to our last and, well, more sophisticated piece. It really is actually an art book. This book is called Highlights and Shadows, and it came out in 1937. Well, 1937 is shortly after the Hays Act is enacted with lots of restrictions about morality in motion pictures. There's a lot of concern. The morality police were really out in big numbers in the 1930s. And so it has a plastic cover to keep you from seeing this also rather dark and fuzzy and frankly not too literal image of a nude woman. And we'll cover up because we're being polite. But this whole book is full of photos by famous photographers of the time doing nude studies. Arnold Guenther was the person behind this. And he called it Highlights and Shadows because his form of photography as a pictorialist really featured soft focus. He lived between the 1870s and 1942. And so he died about five years after this was done. Ironic because in the 1940s suddenly celebrating the female form became very popular, and this book probably would have done better then. It says the cover design is a prize nude by Lionel Heyman, and there are a number of photographers in here depicted. There's probably something like 75 scenes overall. There are people who might not be famous to us today, but they were famous at the time. And they go to great lengths not just to show the picture, but to talk about what camera they used, what lens they used, how the f-stops were set, because this was intended to be a serious art book. Now I have to be honest, I got it out of a collection of older not-so-artsy nude books. We'll just put it that way. And so I was surprised to find it in there. But this is actually very sophisticated and really very nicely done. This picture is by Thomas Owings. Very nice use of light and shadow. I think we can show this because they show stuff like this on television now. This particular book was done in spiral binding because there were not a lot of publishers who were not afraid to publish something like this. Even though this was done to celebrate the female form in an artistic fashion that was not intended to be pornographic, it had to be dealt with as if it was. But it makes it a very interesting book. Now it's a little bumped. It's a little yellowed. It's not perfect in every way, but it's a pretty good intact copy. And the interior pages are all good. We're going to start it at $29.99. I have seen these listed. I haven't seen any sold. So I'm starting it at a lower price, figuring we'll get bids on it and interest, and then we'll find out together what the market really is. And then all the other people who have their listings can adjust to it. Because so often I see people on eBay and they just pick a number. They stick with it. That listing stays there forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. And we don't really know what the market is. So that's why we're selling these things on eBay auctions. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you so much for the members who support this and do the extra that lets us do this extra for you. And can't wait to see how all these do. And we'll come back with a report later. If you enjoyed this video, check out this one. 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