BOSTON (AP) – A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction. The Apple-1 set in motion the company that in June became the first publicly traded business to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value, according to RR Auction in Boston. The computer has been restored to a fully operational state and comes with a custom-built case with a built-in keyboard.
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DALLAS — After a fierce bidding war, a 1966 Japanese domestic-market Batmobile tin toy set a record at $150,000 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions‘ Ultimate Batman Collection Signature auction.
Made by leading Japanese toymaker Yonezawa, the friction-powered Toyopet (Toyota) Crown with Batman at the wheel, which survived with its original box, is now the most valuable Batman toy ever auctioned.
In all, the sold-out August 4-5 event brought in a whopping $1,395,762.
“Japanese Batman tin toys certainly made their mark,” said Heritage Consignment Director of Action Figures and Toys, Justin Caravoulias. “They accounted for more than $459,000 of the total.”
More than 1,000 bidders worldwide participated in the sale packed with toys, dolls, robots, action figures, dioramas, original packaging art, prized trinkets and other memorabilia featuring Batman, Robin and their famous foes. These treasures, most in or with their original packaging, also spanned the globe, hailing from Japan, England, the United States, South America, Europe and beyond.
“This weekend’s results show, as we’ve long known, that there is an incredible international appetite for Japanese popular culture,” says Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena. “These Japanese toy rarities are largely unknown except in Japan, but it’s clear from this auction’s runaway success that a worldwide audience is eager to bid on and compete for the best of the best in character collectibles.”
All prices listed are inclusive of buyer’s premium.
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Yonezawa Japanese domestic-market Batmobile from 1966, $150,000.
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Bandai battery-operated walking Batman from the 1960s, $42,500.
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Derasco Batpen point of purchase display with pen, dating to 1966 and made for the UK domestic market, $20,000.
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Masudaya battery-operated Batcopter from 1966, $22,500.
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Marx bendable Batman set dating to 1966, $21,250.
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LONDON – A block of one of the first stamps issued in North Korea sold for £27,500, or about $34,900, at Chiswick Auctions on July 19. The near-mint sheet of 104 copies of the 1946 Gen. Kim II Sung 50ch was part of the second tranche of a remarkable postal history collection assembled by John Newell, who is described as being ‘a former British journalist and presumed diplomat’ during the Cold War era.
DALLAS (AP) – The combat boots and dog tags Alan Alda wore while playing the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye on the beloved television series M-A-S-H sold at auction July 28 for $125,000.
BOSTON, Mass. – A torch from the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics sold for $187,500 at RR Auction on July 20.
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Norman Rockwell Museum is now displaying an exhibition exploring the business and cultural context of Rockwell’s art. Norman Rockwell: The Business of Illustrating the American Dream examines how Rockwell navigated relationships with publishers, advertising clients and other business entities to create work that shaped and reflected American culture and influenced notions of the American Dream. Based on extensive research in the Norman Rockwell Museum archives by guest curator Deborah Hoover, the exhibition shines new light on the interplay of artistry, advertising, consumerism, business relationships and ambitious cultural, consumer and capitalist agendas that informed Rockwell’s work. The show will close at the end of October on an as-yet unspecified date.
BATON ROUGE, La. – A new world auction record was marked on July 16 by a factory-sealed 4GB original 2007 iPhone that achieved $190,373. Offered in the 2023 LCG Summer Premier Auction held by LCG Auctions, the final sale price represents the highest price ever paid at auction for any iPhone – 300% more than the previous record set in February when the auction house sold an 8GB version of the original iPhone for $63,356.
LONDON – The second offering from a remarkable postal history collection assembled by John Newell, described as “a former British journalist and presumed diplomat” who gained access to some of the world’s most secretive countries during the Cold War era, appears at Chiswick Auctions on Wednesday, July 19.
LICHFIELD, U.K. – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the British first edition of the first Harry Potter book, has become a Holy Grail for collectors of a certain age. On Monday, July 10 – mere weeks before the fictional boy wizard marks his July 31 birthday, which he shares with author J.K. Rowling – the rare book performed magic again, this time at auction in England. An ex-library copy purchased for the equivalent of 38 cents sold for a hammer price of around $13,500. An American bidder participating via thesaleroom.com came away victorious.
DALLAS (AP) – The combat boots and dog tags that Alan Alda wore to portray the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye on the beloved television series M-A-S-H meant so much to him that when the show ended 40 years ago, he kept them. But he`s now ready to let the pieces go, in service of another passion: his center dedicated to helping scientists and doctors communicate better. Heritage Auctions is offering up the worn boots and military identification tags on July 28 in Dallas.