Kovel's Antiques & Collectibles

Prices compiled monthly from sales and advertisements.

Q Do you have any information about this tobacco jar? I believe that it is over 100 years old. It reads “American Eagle Tobacco Works, Detroit, Mich.”

Q My aunt gave me this cookie jar. We think it is about 60 years old. It has “Red Wing USA” printed on the bottom. Can you give me any information about the cookie jar?

Q This toy steam roller was a gift to my husband sometime around 1938. It has a tag that reads “Keystone Steam Roller 60, Built by Keystone Mfg. Co., Boston, Mass. U.S.A.” I am interested in finding its value.

Q I inherited this clock from my mother. It was made by the Ansonia Clock Co. of New York. Printed on the back are the words “Royal F.M. 1755, Bonn, Germany.” “La Layon” is also embossed on the back. I think the case is porcelain. It’s in very good condition. How much is it worth?

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Stoneware pigs were made by the thousands at Anna Pottery in Anna, Illinois, in the late 1800s. Among them was a special group of “railroad pigs.”

If you’re bored with the usual chairs and sofas, consider a 19th-century Pennsylvania two-board bench like this one. It auctioned for $5,500 in the Keystone state. Plenty of other benches and settees sold for less. Check them out.

Hot off the auction block is this c.1914 cast-iron trivet with “Little Red Riding Hood” design. It sold in Ohio for $72. Don’t scorch your fingers when you click to our article to see more trivets.

A collector turned on by candle lamps bid $230 for this satin glass fairy lamp at a Maine auction. Follow the glow to our article to learn more about antique fairy lamps once used as night-lights.

These Rookwood bookends shaped like rooks flew away from a Cincinnati auction for $230. Read more about Rookwood bookends.

Pretty perfume bottles in all shapes and sizes sold at the Monsen and Baer auction held at the 2008 convention of the International Perfume Bottle Association.

Three early 20th-century German-made Noah’s Arks, complete with animal pairs, sold at a summer James Julia auction.

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