February 9, 2012
On February 1, 2012, at exactly 5:02 p.m., the day Facebook announced it was finally going public, the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, posted a photograph of his desk on his personal Facebook page. Along with a MacBook Pro, dry-erase marker, and bottle of G Series Gatorade, Zuck’s work station featured a plain white poster bearing the all-caps red message, “STAY FOCUSED & KEEP SHIPPING.”
“Posters give us something to share back to Facebook.”
Earlier that day, at 11:48 a.m., Ben Barry posted an image of the same poster on the Facebook Analog Research Lab’s Facebook page with this message: “New posters … (continue reading)
November 4, 2011
Two special guests visited our San Francisco headquarters today, Gary Goff (right) and John Infurna (center, seen with CollectorsWeekly.com publisher, Dave Margulius, at left). Gary is a renowned telephone collector, who runs a terrific website called TelephoneCollector.info. John also collects, but he may be better known for the painstakingly authentic replicas of everything from glass Red Cross mouthpieces (fabricated to his exacting specifications by Fenton) to … (continue reading)
September 28, 2011
When we published our first interview with Rob Niederman back in 2008, he was focused, if you will, on historically significant and exceedingly rare pre-1900 wood cameras. Most camera collectors don’t usually start at such lofty heights. A more common obsession (for some it’s just a phase) is to collect Kodak cameras.
A … (continue reading)
September 22, 2011
Before MTV, and long before we could stream music videos on our cell phones, mid-1960s American hepcats gathered around 500-pound, 7-foot-high contraptions to watch 16-millimeter Technicolor films of B-list pop stars gyrating to their latest hits. The contraption in question was usually a Scopitone, one of several audio-visual jukeboxes found primarily in bars. Their reign, if you can even call it that, was … (continue reading)
August 2, 2011
The blogs are buzzing this morning with news that a 1939 Plexiglass body Pontiac made by General Motors for the New York World’s Fair, sold at auction for $308,000. In fact, a lot of manufacturers of traditionally opaque goods made see-through versions of their products. Here are a few of our favorite clear things.
The Ghost Car. This 1939 … (continue reading)
May 31, 2011
The last time we spoke to Justin Pinchot, he took us on a guided tour of his collection of toy robots. Recently, Justin sent us photos and a video (see below) of his latest toy, a 1959 Goggomobil TS 250 Coupe. According to Justin, less than 67,000 of these German microcars (it’s just 10 feet long) were manufactured between 1957 and 1969. Like other Goggomobil … (continue reading)
May 26, 2011
Time was, humans didn’t have to worry much about getting exercise. When we had to kill, gather, grow, or herd our own food, working out happened naturally. Of course, as soon as we figured out how to avoid those laborious chores, we did. Not long after, we had to come up with new ways of staying in shape; hence, exercise.
“Kellogg had some unorthodox ideas about health.”
Exercising is a … (continue reading)
May 5, 2011
Johnny Lowe of Memphis, Tennessee, makes guitars out of cigar boxes, furniture, and other recycled objects. These humble-looking instruments, known as Lowebows, have taken the stage with Kid Rock, Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi All Stars, and Timbuk 3′s Pat MacDonald, who named his latest band, Purgatory Hill, after a Lowe cigar box guitar called the Purgatory Hill Harp.
“Slide guitar evolved from the … (continue reading)
April 20, 2011
When some people think “motorcycles,” the first name that comes to many minds is Mike Wolfe, the co-host of “American Pickers” who’s made no secret of his love of just about anything on two wheels. But even Mike would probably agree that the name that’s even more closely associated with motorcycles is Steve McQueen.
On May 14, 2011, Bonhams will offer one of McQueen’s bikes … (continue reading)
March 22, 2011
Today’s guest blogger is Mike Anderson, the owner of Wolfegang’s Collectibles, who makes a living buying, selling, and conserving antique sewing machines. He and his son also collect vintage snowmobiles.
While many sources state the first snowmobile was made by Joseph Armond Bombardier or Edgar Hetten of Arctic Cat, that is not the case. It was actually a converted Ford Model T, made by Virgil D. White of Ossipee, New … (continue reading)
March 3, 2011
Today’s guest blogger is Mike Anderson, the owner of Wolfegang’s Collectibles, who makes a living buying, selling and conserving antique sewing machines.
Every now and then, a collector gets lucky and finds that once-in-a-lifetime item. We all scour the planet for the things we love—the rare, the unusual, the pristine. The story of this 1860 Williams & Orvis treadle sewing machine is, however, not one of a lucky find, … (continue reading)
January 28, 2011
Today’s guest blogger is Martin Howard, whose amazing collection of late-19th-century typewriters can be seen at antiquetypewriters.com.
James Hammond, one of the great typewriter pioneers, began work on this remarkable machine in the late 1870s. It was patented in 1880 and first manufactured in 1881.
The Hammond typewriter has a truly brilliant … (continue reading)
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