While I’m the Lead Video Game Cataloger for Heritage Auctions, I’m also a big reader and a professional author. Thanks in part to my mom, who took me to used bookstores when I was a kid, I learned to love the written word at a young age. She also let me order three offerings from […]
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Signed Letter from Howard Carter with Quote from King Tut’s Lotus Chalice
British Egyptologist, Howard Carter, quotes from the Lotus chalice, one of the first artifacts found in King Tut’s tomb.
Rare as a moon landing, a copy of the Mercury Seven’s 1962 book signed by 32 astronauts
‘A complete space autograph collection in one volume,’ from Alan Shepard and John Glenn to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
From Takeoff to Touchdown: Artifacts Flown on the Two Most Important Flights in History
As would be expected, Heritage Auctions’ Space Exploration Auction Featuring The Armstrong Family Collection™ Nov. 1-3 in Dallas is full of amazing artifacts relating to the first man to walk on the moon, from buttons to medals to flags to photos to an early flight suit. Suffice to say there is nothing like it anywhere, […]
Einstein’s Letter Simplifying the Theory of Relativity
By 1952, the words “Albert Einstein” were synonymous with the word “genius.” Einstein was routinely stopped on the street by people asking him to explain “those theories,” which changed humanity’s perception of the universe and became pillars of modern physics. One inquisitive follower of Einstein’s work was Dr. Waldron Gardiner, a pathologist in San Francisco, who wrote Einstein on July 8, […]
A Lifetime of Collecting: George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn
Piecing together an elite collection in any category requires extensive time and energy, both in acquisition of materials and in studying of the subject of choice. Such is the case with Glen Swanson, around whose collection Heritage Auctions built its June “Legends of the West” auction. Growing up in Mandan, N.D., Swanson had an uncle […]
Artifacts from Custer’s Last Stand for Sale at Auction
For Garryowen and Glory! Those were the prophetic closing words of the regimental song of George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry. Buy, Value or Appraise Your Historical and Americana Memorabilia Bid or buy historical and Americana memorabilia for sale, value your item, or request a free appraisal to sell your collection. As a boy growing up in […]
When Marvelous Mechanics Make Music
Before iPods, before gramophones, before player pianos were the rage, there were parlor music players. Designed for domestic entertainment, a well-appointed home in 1910 likely had one of these. While earlier mechanical players were large, temperamental and expensive (best suited for public spaces), music boxes like this Mira player changed the American parlor and harmonized […]
