Archive for March, 2016

We’ve got vintage toys up for grabs in our third annual Spring sweepstakes. You could win a Lehmann Wind-up Tin Bird – a great collectible piece, new in box, new old stock (NOS). Made in Western Germany 1960-1970! Sweepstakes starts on April 1st – enter to win at worldclassantiques.com/sweepstakes! These…

Quick – what was the first consumer product manufactured at the end of World War II? The answer? Electric toy trains, which began to appear on store shelves just in time for the first postwar Christmas. Many were manufactured by the Lionel Company of Irvington, New Jersey, which would become…

In addition to our recent home page design changes we’ve changed up the website menu START button slightly, adding two indispensable tools to your fingertips. Our ‘Currency Converter’ has over 60 of the world’s major currencies and is updated daily, and ‘Gold and Silver Prices’ features the price of gold…