Advertising Collectibles
A great place to see lots of old pocket tins, tobacco collectibles, country store displays, signs and other antique advertising. These pages are filled with photos, facts and information.
A look at the memorable Burma-Shave roadside signs from the William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design
Short history of Elsie the Borden's Cow from Cremora.com
Wikipedia's list of notable mascots and characters created specifically for advertising purposes, listed alphabetically by the product they represent.
Many photos of Mr. Peanut collectibles, old and new, along with many fakes.
Over 600 3D advertising icons. A spectacular display!
Advertising Signs
Founded by Tod Swormstedt, former editor of Signs of the Times magazine. The collection contains more than 2800 cataloged items, including not only signs, but sign-making equipment, materials, tools, books, etc.
Nice photos of some rare vintage European porcelain signs.
Autographs
Autograph World Authentication Guide: on-line Facsimile Guide of in person celebrity autographs.
Baseball Collectibles
David Rudd Cycleback's in-depth site on detecting fakes in early trading cards. Highly recommended.
A look at the many Hartland Plastic figures- Not just baseball, but football, western and others. Includes price guide.
Beatles
Beatles website for collectors and fans featuring information and values on thousands of Beatles rarities.
Bicycle Collectibles
Nice pics relating to cycling including some old nameplates, bicycle ads, magazine covers, etc.
Jim Snell's Collection of vintage Schwinn Bicycles. Many Schwinns pictured with much information. Recommended.
Big Little Books
Complete listing with values of BLBs, grading and caring of Big Little Books, Big little Book Club...
Book Collecting
Firsts has established itself as the premier publication in its field. Now in its seventeenth
year, Firsts is an invaluable resource, providing information, entertainment, and an entry into the delightful world of
book collecting.
Search Fadedgiant's online database of over 50,000 antique book prices. The world's largest
free online database of old books with values determined by auction prices.
Bottles
Soda bottles, snuff bottles, fire grenades, fruit jars, apothecary, ink bottles, etc. If it's antique bottles, you'll find information on them here.
Website for Antique Bottle and Glass Collector magazine. Also Glass Works Auction.
Breweriana
Beer cans, trays, ads, labels, crowns, coasters, bottles, openers, etc.
Where breweriana collectors buy and sell vintage breweriana, antique beer cans, bottles, signs, labels, crowns, and more worldwide.
Dedicated to the collection and preservation of a unique art form- the advertising
beer tray
Cameras
Ton's of pics of collectible cameras of all types: Subminiature, novelty, commemorative, disposable, box cameras, character, etc.
Character Collectibles
Vintage Orphan Annie items from several different collections: Christmas cards, BLBs, pinbacks, artwork, decoder badges, rings and more.
Vintage Disneyana- The Value of Disney Collectibles.
Vintage items from the character created by Irving Crump for Boy's Life Magazine in 1921. Books, ads, premiums, BLB, etc.
A super site about those memorable Thimble Theatre characters created by Elsie Segar: Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee'pea, Wimpy, Roughhouse, etc. Nice photos of many great collectibles.
The R. F. Outcault Society's web site honoring R. F. Outcault, The Yellow Kid, Pore Li'l Mose, Buster Brown and the rest of his creations.
Rudolph was first seen in a giveaway booklet written by Robert L. May for the Montgomery Ward company in 1939. Read the entire story.
Covers Walt Disney, Disney Studio, Walt Disney Productions, etc. from 1919 to the present. A must for any Disney collector.
Comic Books
The Who's Who of American Comic Books is a database by the late "Father of Comic Book Fandom", Jerry Bails, designed to document the careers of people who have contributed to or supported the publication of original material in U.S. comic books in the years 1928-99.
Disney Collectibles
News and information for Disney Pin collectors. Very in depth site with information on "scrappers" and bootlegs.
Dolls
Find information on vintage collectible dolls. Over 500 doll photos to enjoy.
a guide to collecting and identifying dolls 1800-1970's, Antique to vintage dolls.
Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. welcomes you to the official TARZANŽ Web site. Explore the ape-man in magazines and books, movies and radio shows, comics and toy stores, and finally in Disney's animated classic.
Fishing Lures & Tackle
An identification and value guide to the most collectible fishing lures. Contains a fishing lure collectibles slideshow with prices.
Nice site with updated reports on what's going on in the hobby. Also has information on fakes.
TackleCollecting.com: designed with the antique fishing lure collector in mind. You will find color charts and other useful information on Arbogast, Creek Chub, Heddon, Paw Paw, Pflueger, Shakespeare, and South Bend lures. There are over 2,000 images and 50 web pages on this web site.
Glassware
Much on depression era glassware: Anchor Hocking, Fire-King, Jadite, Royal Ruby...
FGC, Inc., is dedicated to the study of all American handmade glassware, including Fostoria, Cambridge, Heisey, New Martinsville, Paden City, Tiffin, and Westmoreland.
Guitars
History, model info and specs for the classic vintage guitar makes: Gibson, Fender, Martin, Gretsch, Epiphone, Dobro, National,Rickenbacker, etc.
Hot Wheels
Mattel's official Hot Wheels collectors site. Contains information on new products, a gallery of past models, special offers, auctions and trades.
Magazines
Huge site with magazines categorized by date. Movie magazine section. Also includes a magazine graidng guide.
Cover Art from Pulp Magazines, Periodicals and Vintage Magazines. Images of covers of hundreds of magazines from the pulp fiction era.
Marbles
Nice pictures and information on the different manufacturers and types of collectible marbles: Akro Agate, Christensen, Peltier, Ravenswood, Vitro, Marble King, etc.
Matchcovers
Primarily a site for selling their album pages but it also has information on displaying, trading, etc.
Movie Memorabilia
Big Reel Magazine website.
Petroliana
An online collection of gasoline logos from photos and maps. Over 200 different brands with links to more photos.
Nice site with photos of old National Refining Company (Enarco) letterheads, maps, radio memorabilia, 3D stereoscopic images and more.
Home page of Petroleum Collectors Monthly magazine. Articles from past issues are available on the site.
Many sites listed by geographic location with tons of old pictures & other information on the beginnings of the oil industry.
Pinbacks
A fantastic site showing clear closeup photos of hundreds of vintage comic pinbacks. Categorized by character, comic strip, set or keyword. Recommended!
Pinup Art
Website for the New York City gallery. Many pinup artists are covered: Elvren, Petty, Moran, Vargas, Mozert, Ramos and many, many others.
The finest collected works of pinup art from the 1940's and 1950's. View original and replica pin-up art from renowned artists like Gil Elvgren, Earl Moran, Alberto Vargas, Bill Ward, and many more.
The Pin-up Files contains over 1500 pin-up art images from "classic" and "contemporary" artists. Galleries are devoted to each featured artist.
Political Items
The APIC, started in 1945, has over 2000 members and is one of the oldest hobby organizations in the country next to coin and stamp collector organizations.
Postcards
Postcard Collector Magazine website.
The marketplace for postcards and paper collectibles.
Pottery
A 30 year collector's McCoy Pottery site with photo galleries, McCoy marks, fake McCoy identification. etc. Very impressive.
Promotional Glasses
A guide for collectors of horse racing memorabilia. Prices on glasses and shotglasses from
the Triple Crown and Breeders Cup horse races. Other horse racing memorabilia are also listed.
Online character/promotional glass auctions. Site also has prices realized from past auctions.
The PGCA is a club for collectors of cartoon, character, advertising, and sports drinking glasses and related memorabilia and collectibles.
Pulp Magazines
When your next adventure was just a dime away! Discover the thrilling adventures of yesteryear and why pulps are still popular.
Read about the history of pulp magazines & see great cover images.
Your online reference to the Golden Age of Pulp Magazines.
Radio, Cereal and other Premiums
From Skelley Oil thru the Ovaltine radio years. Pictures of the Captain Midnight Code-O-Graphs, manuals, rings and other premiums.
Pics of vintage cereal boxes with their premium offers: Quisp, Quake, Freakies, Fruit Brute, Sugar Crisp, Pink Panther Flakes, etc.
Excellent site with pictures of the premiums along with many of the original print ads. Captain Frank Hawk, Hop Harrigan, Space Patrol and more.
Description of old radio premiums along with sound bites. Many shows covered: Bobby Benson,
Buck Jones ('Hoofbeats'), Buck Rogers, Captain Midnight, Chandu the Magician, Dick Tracy...
Radios
Explore radio collecting with its seemingly endless variety of vintage sets. You'll also find vintage television sets as well as links to old time radio programs. Site includes value guide.
The antique radio collection of Steve T. Davis featuring plastic Deco radios from the 1930s and 1940s.
The collection of Rich Vester featuring vintage transistor and novelty radios.
Railroadiana
Just a single page but nice pics of some bogus and phony stuff in railroad items.
Records
A website for the Record Collector.
Much on the site about the history of the vinyl recording.
Restaurant Collectibles
An online guide to classic diners and the American roadside.
Ohio Diners reference guide of historic stainless steel roadside diners, featuring photos and history of classic diners and parts, restorations, sales, architecture, transport and rigging.
A community of Restaurant Ware collectors, sellers and buyers dedicated to research and identification of all kinds of commercial china: transportation china & hotel ware.
Scouting Collectibles
A Virtual Museum of Boy Scouting in America: 1910-1919. Contains images of Boy Scout memorabilia and history of the early Boy Scouts.
Boy Scout and Girl Scout memorabilia, patches and collectibles. Also information on fake Scouting patches.
Soft Drink/Soda Collectibles
For collectors of A & W Root Beer mugs and related memorabilia
A look at the many different types of Coke bottles through the years
The Dr Pepper Museum holds one of the finest collections of soft drink memorabilia in the world. All soft drink brands are welcome- from Pepsi-Cola to Kickapoo Joy Juice.
Downloadable Mountain Dew bottle listing along with Mountain Dew history, pictures, Mountain Dew Club
A national organization of people dedicated to the study of the history and the collecting of the memorabilia of the Pepsi-Cola Company
Featuring a collection of Pepsi advertisements, bottles, cans, carriers, cartons, crates, cups, glasses, toys, etc.
Vernor's has been around since 1866 and is America's oldest soda pop!
Specialty Auctions
Political memorabilia, radio premiums, character pinbacks, medals, etc. Mail/internet auctions about
4 or 5 times a year, along with set sale listings. Super photography of scarce items.
Specializing in high profile celebrity and entertainment auctions. Site contains several collector's guides.
Antique Advertising, Maxfield Parrish & Fine Collectibles. Site includes prices realized from past auctions.
Sports Collectibles
Website for Sports Collector's
Digest. The hobby's oldest and largest publication. Much information on the site about sports collectibles in general.
Tools
Many vintage tool catalogs available on the site as free PDF downloads. Quite a few pics on website of antique tools. Recommended.
Several articles about antique tools and treadle powered or foot powered machines. Also has many vintage tools for sale.
TV Show Toys
About 10 pages of Green Hornet collectibles. Many from the 1966/67 television series.
Blog about the Batman TV series.
Books, Comics, Games, Dolls, etc. from the Bewitched TV series.
Vending Machines
Authorized Restoring of Antique Vending Machines.
From 1937 to 1956, the Vendo Company of Kansas City, Missouri, developed and maintained the earliest forms of vending machine technology.
A site created to assist people in their quest for information regarding Antique/Collectible Soda Machines.
World's Fair Collectibles
Home page for the 1904 World's Fair Society. Dedicated to preserving the memory and memorabilia of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Yo-Yos
Not a large site but some really great pictures of vintage yo-yos.
A super site showing vintage and rare yo-yos, patches and other memorabilia from many different makers. Recommended!
Lucky Meisenheimer's extensive yo-yo site showing pics, history, grading scale and auction prices.
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