collectables

As America prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, eBay is seeing a surge in sales of relics and memorabilia from the World Trade Center and the terrorist attacks, fueled partly by speculators, and partly by our desire to connect with history, however painful.

Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auction Galleries will be selling the original animatronic Energizer bunny from the ubiquitous commercials of the 1990s. According to the auction listing, "This is an original Energizer Bunny created by Academy Award-nominated special effects artist Eric Allard...

The Wall Street Journal recently reported (subscription required) on Texas 8-track collector James "Bucks" Burnett's plans to open an 8-track museum to display his collection of tapes. Burnett recently held a well-attended gallery show for his collection, and promoters in Denton, Texas offered to...

I'm not surprised.Those long, lean, pimpin' machines of yore, those boats of the '70s have been derided long enough by those of us who remember when Disco played on the AM stations. Left unloved too long, their original owners long passed away, these gas-guzzling relics have finally found a new,...

Mike Presley responded to a recent walletpop post on thrift shops with one of my favorite kind of stories: From Thrift Shops and Yard Sales to eBay. Mike is 41 years old and has served in the Navy for 19 years. After work almost every day, he makes a thrift store stop. It's a habit that his father...