Antiques, collectibles/Current prices


CURRENT PRICES

Around the nation

Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions.

Steamship advertising broadside, Frank McElroy Steam Book and Job Printer, Aug. 11, 1862, lists rates of weekly passage, 15 x 10 inches, $115.

Staffordshire historical handleless cup and saucer, “Wadsworth Tower,” shell border, impressed mark, E. Wood & Sons, $250.

Washington and Jackson historical flask, Washington and Jackson profiles, pontil mark, sheared lip, green, 7 inches, $245.

“The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy” cookbook, by Hannah Glasse, London, 1774, $395.

Engraved whale’s tooth, one side with British ship Calliope at sea with flags flying, the other with sailor grasping flag and holding a bottle, 53‚Ñ4 inches, $445.

Navajo rug, stepped central medallion, tan, ivory, red, brown and orange on natural field, diamonds in olive and ivory, vegetable dyes, 1930s, 61 x 38 inches, $575.

World War I German naval uniform, blue wool jacket with 30 brass buttons, applied metal anchor emblem on arm, size medium, $865.

American flag, 13 stars, hand-sewn linen, binding at hoist edge, brass grommets, marked “U.S. Ensign No. 8, Oct. 1889,” 30 x 53 inches, $2,530.

Captain doll, from the Katzenjammer Kids, arms and head swivel, felt and cloth, Steiff, 1910, 15 inches, $3,500.

Copper Viking longboard weather vane, dragon head & tail on keel, square sail, figure of Viking manning a rudder, c. 1920, 22 x 241‚Ñ2 inches, $5,035.