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Museum of Musical Instruments

Museum of Musical Instruments

If vintage guitars could talk... they'd be digging this site. With its many themed collections and exhibitions, it's an excellent starting point for aspiring guitar collectors. Includes guitars from Hendrix,... Read More or Visit Site

USSR Posters

USSR Posters

Ben Perry's Flickr photoset showcasing almost 1500 Soviet propaganda, advertising, theatre and movie posters from 1917-1991. Beautiful colors, great design - it helps if you read Russian, but worth browsing... Read More or Visit Site

Toyraygun.com

Toyraygun.com

One of the most comprehensive vintage toy raygun reference sites, with lots of detailed descriptions and great photos. Mouse over the guns at the top of the home page to see the main categories: American guns... Read More or Visit Site

Old Jigsaw Puzzles

Old Jigsaw Puzzles

Bob Armstrong has pieced together an incredible reference site on vintage jigsaw puzzles. The centerpiece is his collection of over 700 puzzles, mostly hand cut, complete with pictures and descriptions. From... Read More or Visit Site

Dollreference.com

Dollreference.com

This densely packed index of antique and vintage dolls claims to offer over 10,000 images of dolls from the 1800s to 1970s, and we don't doubt it. Equally interesting, however, are the histories and... Read More or Visit Site

Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves

Vintage Kids

This great blog, by an anonymous mom in Texas, is an ongoing bibliography of hundreds of vintage childrens books, complete with cover images, excerpts and commentary (on plots, appropriateness, illustrations,... Read More or Visit Site

In Flagrante Collecto

In Flagrante Collecto

This companion site to Marilynn Gelfman Karp's book of the same name is a tease of beautiful images for obscure collecting categories like dixie cup lids, clothes pins, roller skate keys and cigar bands. A... Read More or Visit Site

The Les Paul Forum

The Les Paul Forum

If you're into Gibson's Les Paul models, or even curious, this is your site. Chock full of useful reference data, pictures of beautiful guitars (e.g. Gibson's highly collectible 'sunburst' models), and... Read More or Visit Site

Miniarcade.com

Miniarcade.com

Steve Read's tribute to vintage handheld video games from the 1970's and 80's. Includes pictures, gameplay summaries and more for hundreds of games from Bandai, Coleco, Entex, Mattel, Nintendo, Tandy, and... Read More or Visit Site

Sparkmuseum.com

Sparkmuseum.com

John Jenkins' collection of vintage scientific and radio apparatus. Great photos and incredibly detailed information about early electrical equipment, electric motors, telegraphy, lighting and power, wireless... Read More or Visit Site

Seateddimevarieties.com

Seateddimevarieties.com

Gerry Fortin’s definitive Web-based book on Liberty Seated Dimes from 1837 to 1891 features an easy-to-navigate table of contents that quickly takes collectors through the major design groups, varieties, and... Read More or Visit Site

Combat Helmets of the World

Combat Helmets of the World

Peter Suciu offers a comprehensive collection of military headgear from around the world. He showcases a big collection of helmets from the late 1800s up to the present from countries such as Thailand,... Read More or Visit Site