Got a leather jacket from a grandfather, a riding club, or an estate? The label, the zipper, the lining all tell its date.
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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. 👇
🔍 What dates a vintage leather jacket:
🪡 Original Talon zippers (pre-1980 = serious premium)
🏷️ Label evolution — "Schott Bros." (pre-1928) vs. "Schott" (post-1928)
🐎 Horsehide vs. cowhide vs. steerhide (horsehide = oldest, most prized)
🧵 Original lining condition (rayon, satin, quilted wool — all date-specific)
⚙️ Snap hardware (specific brands and stamps by decade)
Resoled, replaced linings, or fake patches kill value.
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. 👇
The Fabergé market is doing something unusual:
💎 At VNCollectibles, Fabergé accounted for 4 of the top 5 lots — totaling 35% of the entire sale's value
⚱️ Pink guilloche enamel + rose-cut diamonds + named workmaster = the formula collectors chase
🏰 Provenance to a royal family pushes prices into a category of their own
Three things to know on Fabergé: workmaster, provenance, original case.
Got a box of Peanuts stuff from the kids — or from your own childhood?
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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. 👇
📋 What separates collectible Peanuts from flea-market Peanuts:
✏️ Original daily strips by Schulz himself (highest tier — $10K-$50K+)
📅 First-edition character merchandise (1950s-60s, before "Beagle Scout" era)
🎁 MetLife promotional items (1985-2016 — surprisingly collectible now)
🚀 Apollo 10 memorabilia (NASA's command module was named "Charlie Brown," lunar module "Snoopy")
🎄 1965 A Charlie Brown Christmas original art and licensing materials
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.
Bidding today? Check the comps first.
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🎨 Fine art, paintings, sculpture
🪙 Coins, sterling, currency
🎴 Sports cards & memorabilia
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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. 👇