Cool and Collected - collecting pop culture memories and memorabilia
A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
The DC Big Flea rolled into town again this weekend and it was crowded with people searching for vintage treasures, but I wonder if any of the other attendees was as happy to see this guy as I was… I remember having one of these large Rom figures as a kid. I wonder what happened [...]
I got this neat old Hopalong Cassidy target game board off eBay a couple of weeks ago and thought I’d share it here today. I love these old tin target games because the graphics are so vibrant, and they hold up really well for a 50+ year-old toy. These games pre-date me by about 20-30 [...]
A Collection a Day #35 – Vintage space toys and games, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Space themed toys are something I am always on the lookout for in my travels. Finding them is a rare event, but every now and then I get lucky. If something has a bubble-headed astronaut on it, you [...]
A Collection a Day #17 – Vintage target shooting games, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. These vintage target games are some of my favorite items in my collection. They are big, bright, and colorful (like me). That Space Target game is two feet tall! The pictures on it are so perfect, depicting the space-themed [...]
Do want a really bad case of Bat-envy? Check this out: Holy tin toys, Batman! And that’s not even all of them! Each of those Batmobiles would fetch hundreds of dollars, so my head is spinning just to see all of them in one collection. Hit the jump for more pictures of this incredible collection: http://www.66batman.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1275064508
A Collection a Day – Tin friction cars, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. I would see these little cars in all the flea markets and antique stores I’d visit. The colorful graphics always caught my eye, so I finally bought one and then another and another. I only have these three right now, but [...]
We told you about this auction last month but it’s so amazing, we wanted to remind you again. Donald Kaufman was the co-founder of KB Toys and he had plenty of toys to play with after he left the office and went home for the evening. Kaufman’s collection, widely regarded as the ultimate private collection of [...]
The third auction of the incredible Donald Kaufman Collection of vintage toys will take place April 16 and 17, 2010 at Bertoia’s gallery in Vineland, NJ. The collection is so massive that it will take five auctions to sell all the items. The first two auctions hauled in over $7 million! If old toys are [...]
I’m a huge fan of vintage tin toys, especially the cars and space themed toys. Check out this Japanese racer with the original box. It’s current bid is over 800 bucks, so I will only admire it from afar. Check out the auction on eBay
