Hake’s $1.5M collectibles auction lands in record booksYORK, Pa. – Hake’s, America’s first collectibles auction house, ventured into uncharted territory on July 11 with a rocket-firing Boba Fett action figure that sold for $112,926. The 3.75-inch prototype figure from Kenner’s licensed toy line for The Empire Strikes Back had been displayed at the 1979 Toy Fair in New York, but never saw […]
Hake’s presents 2,000-lot pop culture auction July 10-11YORK, Pa. – So far, 2019 has been a dynamic year for pop culture. Avengers: Endgame smashed box office records with an opening weekend that grossed $1.22 billion worldwide. That led the way for a visit from Godzilla: King of the Monsters and, arriving on July 2, Spider-Man: Far From Home. But that was just […]
York County, S.C., museum to host ‘Peanuts’ exhibitROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) – Dozens of framed comic strip panels that line a York County museum wall prove that Snoopy frowns on pollution, Lucy van Pelt really thought snow came up from the ground and Charlie Brown once feared legal action by the Environmental Protection Agency. Nestled in a room slightly larger than the […]