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Fender Rhodes Mark I Stage Piano (73-Key, 1969-1974) Value & Price Guide
Musical Instruments · Updated about 1 month ago
Harold Rhodes built his first piano for wounded soldiers in Army Air Corps hospitals during World War II. The instrument used pieces of aluminum tubing from discarded B-17 bombers as tone generators, struck by wooden mallets. It fit on a bedside table. Soldiers who had never played music before c...
2000 Pokemon Neo Genesis 1st Edition Lugia Value & Price Guide
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Pokemon: The Movie 2000 opened in theaters on July 21, 2000, and the star of the film was a massive silver-white legendary bird named Lugia. A few months earlier, the Neo Genesis expansion had introduced Lugia to the Pokemon Trading Card Game with a holographic card that featured the creature div...
Heuer Monaco Ref. 1133B (Steve McQueen) Value & Price Guide
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
Steve McQueen wore a lot of watches. But only one became synonymous with his name. During the filming of Le Mans in 1970 and 1971, McQueen strapped a blue-dialed Heuer Monaco to his wrist as racing driver Michael Delaney. The watch appeared in dozens of scenes, always visible, its unusual square ...
LEGO Minifigures 14K Gold C-3PO & Mr. Gold Value & Price Guide
Toys & Figures · Updated about 1 month ago
In 2007, LEGO celebrated the 30th anniversary of Star Wars by creating five minifigures made of 14-karat gold. Five C-3POs, each weighing about 32 grams of solid gold, packed randomly into LEGO Star Wars sets. No announcement. No fanfare. Just five golden droids hidden in a sea of standard plasti...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band First UK Mono Pressing Value & Price Guide
Vinyl Records · Updated about 1 month ago
The Beatles spent 129 days in the studio making Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. That was unprecedented in 1967. Most pop albums were cut in a week or two. EMI's Abbey Road Studios had never been occupied by a single project for that long. The band ran up a production bill of about 25,000 p...
Brave and the Bold #28 (1960) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
DC Comics had a problem in 1960. They had a roster of heroes selling well individually, but nobody had put them together in a team book since the Justice Society of America faded out in 1951. Editor Julius Schwartz had been reviving Golden Age heroes with modern makeovers, and the results had bee...
Flash Comics #1 (1940) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
In January 1940, a new hero hit newsstands who could outrun bullets, vibrate through walls, and make the wind look slow. His name was Jay Garrick, and he got his powers the way a lot of Golden Age heroes did: a lab accident. A college student inhaling hard water vapors in a chemistry experiment s...
2017 Panini National Treasures Patrick Mahomes Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
In July 2021, a 2017 Panini National Treasures Patrick Mahomes II Rookie Patch Autograph sold for $4.3 million. It was the most ever paid for a football card. The buyer was a private collector who had watched Mahomes win Super Bowl LIV, earn Super Bowl MVP honors, and sign a ten-year contract ext...
1971 Topps Pete Rose #100 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
The 1971 Topps set is one of the hardest vintage baseball sets to find in high grade, and it has nothing to do with rarity. It has everything to do with borders. Topps chose jet-black borders for the entire 752-card set, and black borders show every nick, dent, and fingerprint like a dark suit sh...
1948 Bowman Stan Musial #36 Rookie Card Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Stan Musial spent 22 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, won seven National League batting titles, three MVP awards, and three World Series rings. He finished with a .331 lifetime batting average and 3,630 hits, making him one of the five greatest hitters in baseball history. His 1948 Bowman #3...
1860 Connell Stamp (New Brunswick, Recalled) Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1860, Charles Connell was the Postmaster General of New Brunswick, a British colony that would later become part of Canada. When the province decided to issue its own postage stamps, Connell made a fateful decision: he put his own portrait on the 5-cent value. The public was outraged. The Quee...
1869 US 15-Cent Landing of Columbus Invert Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
The 1869 Pictorial Issue was America's first set of stamps to feature images beyond portraits of dead presidents and founding fathers. The 15-cent value depicted the Landing of Columbus, an ambitious multicolor design that required two separate printing passes through the press. When the paper wa...
1964-D Peace Dollar (Denver Mint Strikes) Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1964, the United States Mint was authorized to resume production of silver dollars for the first time since 1935. The Denver Mint reportedly struck 316,076 Peace Dollars dated 1964-D before the entire run was ordered melted. Officially, none survived. Unofficially, rumors have persisted for si...
1873 No Arrows Seated Liberty Dime (Closed 3) Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
The Coinage Act of February 12, 1873 changed the weight of the dime from 2.49 grams to 2.50 grams. It was a trivial adjustment, barely perceptible. But to distinguish the new-weight coins from the old, the Mint added small arrows flanking the date on all dimes, quarters, and half dollars minted a...
1838 Gobrecht Dollar (Restrike) Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
The Gobrecht Dollar occupies a unique position in American numismatics. It is simultaneously a pattern coin, a regular-issue coin, and a restrike, depending on the specific variety and when it was struck. Christian Gobrecht, the third Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, designed what many c...
Ticket to Ride First Edition (2004 Days of Wonder) Value & Price Guide
Collectible Toys & Games · Updated about 1 month ago
In 2004, a French game designer named Alan R. Moon created what would become the gateway drug of modern board gaming. Ticket to Ride was simple enough for a family to learn in 15 minutes but strategic enough to keep experienced gamers engaged. It won the Spiel des Jahres (Germany's Game of the Ye...
Maxfield Parrish Original Prints Value & Price Guide
Antiques & Decorative Arts · Updated about 1 month ago
Between 1918 and 1934, a single artist's work hung in an estimated one out of every four American homes. Maxfield Parrish didn't achieve this through gallery sales or museum shows. He did it through mass-produced prints, calendars, and advertisements that brought his luminous, intensely colored l...
Hammond B-3 Organ Value & Price Guide
Musical Instruments · Updated about 1 month ago
The sound has no real substitute. When Jimmy Smith played "The Sermon" in 1958, when Booker T. Jones laid down "Green Onions" in 1962, when Jon Lord drove Deep Purple through "Highway Star" in 1972, they were all playing the same instrument: a Hammond B-3 through a Leslie rotating speaker cabinet...
1999 Pokemon Base Set 1st Edition Chansey Holo #3 Value & Price Guide
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
When the Pokemon Base Set launched in January 1999, every kid wanted a Charizard. The fire-breathing dragon dominated playground trading. But collectors who pay close attention to population reports know a different story. Chansey, the gentle pink egg-carrying Normal-type, has quietly become one ...
IWC Portugieser Ref. 325 (1940s Oversize) Value & Price Guide
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
In the late 1930s, two Portuguese watch merchants walked into IWC's factory in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and made a simple request. They wanted a wristwatch with the precision of a marine chronometer. IWC responded by taking one of their best pocket watch movements, the Hunter caliber 74, and fi...
Micro Machines (1987 Galoob Originals) Value & Price Guide
Toys & Figures · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1986, a Wisconsin toy inventor named Clem Hedeen walked into the offices of Galoob with an idea that seemed backwards. While every other toy company was making things bigger, louder, and more electronic, Hedeen wanted to make toy cars smaller. Much smaller. The vehicles he pitched were barely ...
The Doors Self-Titled Album (1967 Elektra Gold Label Mono) Value & Price Guide
Vinyl Records · Updated about 1 month ago
On January 4, 1967, a debut album landed in record stores that sounded like nothing else on the radio. No bass guitar. An organist who played bass lines with his left hand. A singer who treated the microphone like a confessional booth. The Doors' self-titled first album introduced Jim Morrison, R...
Daredevil #1 (1964) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
Stan Lee had a problem. By early 1964, he had already created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor. Marvel Comics was on an unprecedented hot streak. Lee needed another hero, and this time he wanted one with a disability. He landed on a blind lawyer who fights c...
Sensation Comics #1 (1942) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
In January 1942, two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a new kind of hero showed up on newsstands. She didn't wear a cape. She carried a golden lasso. And she was created by a psychologist who also invented the lie detector. Sensation Comics #1 gave Wonder Woman her first solo feature and...
2013 Panini Prizm Giannis Antetokounmpo #290 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
In June 2013, the Milwaukee Bucks used the 15th pick in the NBA Draft on a teenager most American basketball fans had never heard of. Giannis Antetokounmpo was 18 years old, rail-thin at 196 pounds, and had been playing in the Greek second division for a team called Filathlitikos. His family coul...