Today, people are willing to dish out hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to get the latest and greatest in technology. However, next month, an original 1976 Apple Computer could sell for more than the cost of new models. The fully functional Ricketts Apple-1 Personal Computer, nearly 40 years old, was sold by a 21-year-old […]

The Danse Macabre, an auction fit for Halloween, was held Oct. 22 in New Jersey, and featured a variety of creepy items. Just how creepy were they? Sold items included everything from sheet music, to a 19th century voodoo kit, to actual human bones! Human foot bones sold for $123, a partial skull sold for […]

In the mid-20th century, common Halloween decorations were similar to today, and included jack-o-lanterns, black cats, spiders, bats, ghosts and witches. In the late 1800s, spiders, spider webs and bats were painted on bowls and vases that were displayed in the parlor. However, back in Victorian times, bats and spiders were symbols of success and […]

In 1918, one sheet of United States 24-cent airmail postage stamps was accidentally printed with an image featuring an upside-down airplane. These stamps are known today as “Inverted Jennies,” as the airplane is called a Curtis Jenny. Eighteen years later, in 1936, a block of four of these stamps was bought for $16,000 and given […]