📖 Dictionary Deep Dive
The motorcycle jacket. American. Black leather. Born in 1928 when Schott introduced the Perfecto — the first zippered motorcycle jacket on the planet.
Marlon Brando wore one in The Wild One (1953). The Ramones wore them on stage. The Hells Angels made them a uniform.
A guide to what makes a jacket collectible. 👇
A Fabergé pink enamel cigarette case just sold for $39,835.
Made by August Holmström — one of Fabergé's most legendary workmasters. Engraved inside: "Edith Kekewich, Peamore, Nr. Exeter." Believed to have once belonged to a European royal family.
Sotheby's London sold the same case in 2020 for around $10,000. Five years. Four times the price. 👇
Charles Schulz drew his first #Peanuts strip on October 2, 1950.
75 years later, Snoopy is everywhere — from Pottery Barn collaborations to record-setting auctions. A 1959 original daily strip just sold for around $25,000.
The Peanuts collectibles market is the most cross-generational corner of pop-culture collecting. 👇
Vintage Gibsons, Beatles memorabilia, Clapton-era ephemera — one of the strongest collector categories of 2026 as the originals age out of private collections.
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A 1913 Gibson archtop just sold for $200,000 @HeritageAuction.
But the guitar isn't the story. The story is the two men who played it.
#EricClapton bought it in Los Angeles in 1968. #GeorgeHarrison played it that same year, in Alan Pariser's garden, when they sat down and started writing what would become "Here Comes the Sun," "Something," and "Layla." 👇
@HeritageAuction Will Seippel's full breakdown of the Heritage Auctions guitar sale — and other rock memorabilia moving in 2026 👇
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The guitar's nickname: "Pattie."
Named after Pattie Boyd — Harrison's wife from 1966-1977, then Clapton's wife from 1979-1989. The same woman who inspired "Something." The same woman who inspired "Layla."
One guitar. Two of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century. One muse between them.
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Thursday's live auction lineup on WorthPoint.
Today's lineup:
🏛️ Estate fine & decorative arts
🎨 Fine art, paintings, sculpture
🪙 Coins, sterling, currency
🎴 Sports cards & memorabilia
🐉 Asian antiques
Every active partner auction on one page 👇
Restoring a vintage Indian, Harley, or Excelsior? Or just identifying what's in the barn?
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📚 Book of the Week
Before there was Cycle World. Before Easyriders. Before any glossy motorcycle magazine on a 2026 newsstand.
There was Motorcycle Illustrated — the early 20th-century American trade publication that covered Indian, Harley, Excelsior, Henderson, Pope, and dozens of brands that no longer exist. 👇
Why this matters in 2026:
🏍️ Identifies vintage motorcycle models and years
📰 Period advertising — the source of authentic period images
🛠️ Technical specifications for restoration
🏆 Race results, manufacturer announcements, dealer histories
🏛️ Out of print — but readable in the WorthPoint Library
The reference of record for pre-1940 American motorcycles.
1776-era newspapers, broadsides, almanacs, letters — the Americana market is climbing fast ahead of the country's 250th.
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An original 1776 newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence just came to market.
Not a Dunlap broadside — even rarer. A newspaper printing from the summer of 1776, when Americans first read the words that founded the country.
Most surviving copies are in institutions. Private examples almost never appear. 👇
Will Seippel's full breakdown of this 1776 newspaper, the Lewis Evans map, and what's driving Americana pricing as the 250th anniversary approaches 👇
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The Declaration was signed July 4, 1776 — but most colonists didn't read it on parchment. They read it in the newspapers that printed it in the days and weeks after.
Benjamin Towne's Pennsylvania Evening Post ran the first newspaper printing on July 6, 1776. Other papers followed across the colonies.
Each surviving newspaper is a primary source from the founding week of the United States.
Estate jewelry is easy to underprice if you can't identify the maker.
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Cleaning out an estate. You find a long gold necklace with hanging tassels of beads, pearls, or chain.
Costume? Bridge jewelry? Fine 14k?
Tassel jewelry is having a 2026 moment — Cartier, Boucheron, Bulgari pieces are climbing, and even mid-century mass-market examples are finding buyers. But the prices vary wildly by maker and material. 👇
Full piece on the tassel jewelry market in 2026 — what collectors are paying, what resellers should look for, and the makers to know 👇
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