ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

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.

Advertising button, Apple Valley Pow-Wow, Labor Day Weekend, Indian chief profile, yellow & red, pinback, 1955, 13/4-inch diameter, $10.

Pizza paddle, hand forged iron with barley twist handle and shepherd crook terminal, France, early 1900s, 8 x 21 inches, $85.

Theatre broadside poster, “Next Neighbors, Musical Pantomimic Eccentricity,” Chas. H. Thayer, Norombega Hall, 1879, 30 x 14 inches, $130.

Breakfast tray, genuine bamboo and wood, weave design with cutout handles and front drawer, scalloped base, 1940s, 11 x 17 inches, $165.

Nutcracker, carved wood, old village woman with fishtail handle, mouth opens and closes to crack nuts, Black Forest, c. 1880, 8 inches, $250.

Mailbox, door shaped with slant lid roof and latching front door, newspaper loops, cast iron, Griswold No 1, c. 1895, 131/2 x 6 inches, $350.

Telegraph switchboard, five lines, wooden with brass switches, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Western Electric, c. 1880, 12 x 15 inches, $600.

Sun dial, iron with brass dial, embossed “Count only sunny hours,” Virginia Metal Works, 1940s, 101/4-inch diameter, $875.

Coconut grater, carved wood rabbit, sticking out tongue forming iron spoon with sawtooth grating edge, Thailand, 1960s, $1,250.

Work table, walnut, serpentine top with pull out sewing box, knife pleated silk basket and ceramic castors, 1800s, 28 x 22 inches, $1,400.