Is this pressed tin truck worth $550, $5,500 or $55,000? Learn more about this Buddy L Tank Line truck and find out just how much it sold for at a Morphy Auctions sale.

Did you save a favorite toy from your childhood? Is it valuable today? Share your stories with us here!

Identifying furniture and valuing antiques are always hot topics on the About Antiques site, so our "Q" entry this week led me to compile a Queen Anne Style Furniture Price Guide. Check it out to see a sampling of interesting American, English and Irish pieces and find out what they sold for at auction.

Many moons ago when I first got interested in buying antiques for resale, I purchased a stoneware pitcher at a garage/estate sale. The lady running the sale told me it "belonged to her grandmother." When I showed it to my antiques dealer mother, she said, "Well, it might have belonged to her grandmother but she bought it new about three weeks ago." Making those kinds of mistakes is what mom called "paying for your education" in the antiques business, and it happens to everyone sooner or later. Luckily that mistake only set me back $5.

Have you ever spent money on a reproduction of an antique or collectible thinking it was the real deal like I did? Share a reproduction story with us. After all, I shared one of mine!

Care to venture a guess about how much this intricately crafted folk art piece made during the late 1800s is worth? Is it closer to $80, $800 or $8,000? Take a closer look at this Log Cabin Model to find out how much it sold for at auction late last year.

Porcelain wares produced in the Limoges region of France have been popular with collectors for decades. But do you know the dates Limoges was produced? What makes it valuable? And what type of Limoges dinnerware was heavily marketed in the United States? If you need to brush up on your Limoges basics, take a look at Learning About Limoges for some quick tips as well as more in depth information.

This week, just in time for Easter, C is for candy containers. Not all the examples in the Candy Container Price Guide are Easter-related, since they were made for...

Even with our economy down in the dumps for the most part, auction-goers seem to be digging deep to spend on their favorite antique toys and trains. Several prime Märklin...

Not long ago I saw a listing on eBay for a wonderful antique picture frame made of cast iron marked "Geschutzt." The seller described Geschutzt as a the mark of...

While I only officially collect Santa and Halloween postcards at the present, I still have quite a few cat postcards from years ago when I used to hunt those...

Have you ever wondered how experienced antiques dealers and appraisers look at an object and determine the age instantly? My mother used to do it all the time in her...