DENVER, Pa. – Ask any collector of Halloween, Christmas or other seasonal antiques and they’ll tell you that every day has the potential of being a holiday, whether the calendar says so or not.

LOS ANGELES - Bonhams & Butterfields was honored to feature a selection of important books from the Estate of Glenn Goldman during the Sunset Estate Auction on Aug. 22, 2010. Goldman was the founder and owner of the legendary Los Angeles independent bookstore, Book Soup, which opened in 1975.

OCEANSIDE, N.Y. – A massive three-day sale comprising around 1,800 top-quality, fresh-to-the-market lots from prominent local estates and collections will be offered the weekend of Sept. 24-26 by Philip Weiss Auctions.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The Great Eastern U.S. Antique Advertising, Book and Paper Show is featuring vintage collectibles from Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and other areas of the Lehigh Valley at the site of the Great Allentown Fair, Oct. 2-3.

DALLAS – The original Conklin pens are true oldie goldies and the go-to-choice of another American classic, Mark Twain. The author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” “Huckleberry Finn” and other standards was one of the pen’s legions of admirers.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. – Three hours before the box office opened in March of 1986, an anxious line stretched down the boardwalk for eight city blocks and continued to build until all attendance records for the huge convention center were broken.

NEW YORK - On Sept. 16, collectors will be offered the opportunity to bid for a wide variety of Asian and European furniture and decorative arts, paintings, prints, rugs and carpets from the Park Avenue estate of Laura Speiser.

NEW YORK – “Iconic Objects” including original items from legends Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Albert Einstein and Elizabeth Taylor, among others will headline Guernsey’s Auction House’s important Sept. 24 event. Held in New York City’s Park Avenue Armory

DES MOINES, Iowa – An outstanding 72-inch Washington Chief Gasoline double-sided porcelain sign with full Indian headdress profile for a graphic climbed to $20,900 at an auction held Aug. 6 by Matthews Auctions, LLC, based in Nokomis, Ill.

BOSTON — Copley’s fifth annual summer auction was a huge success, with the much-anticipated collection of five oil paintings by Carl Rungius (1869-1959) out of the collection of H. Wendell Endicott headlining the record-breaking sale.