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Showing results 11 - 17 of 17 for the tag: Automobilia.
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Early Car Makers Desired Hit Song to Boost Sales (10/13/08)
 Early Car Makers Desired Hit Song to Boost Sales
By Dave Bausch
In the field of Automobilia, the one subject most collected is advertising. Advertising took many forms: posters, prints, toys, magazine ads, postcards just to name a few. But the one that most of the automobile makers yearned for was to have their specific model of car depicted on sheet music.
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The Lure of Collecting Automobile License Plates (10/1/08)
 Once upon a time, old license plates were just old license plates. Once having outlived their usefulness, they were discarded, tacked to an old barn door or nailed to the garage walls and quickly forgotten. Anyone that collected them was viewed as somewhat of an oddball, perhaps engaging in some type of suspicious activity.
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Early Automobilia Stein (10/1/08)
 What links the history of the automobile and the history of automobilia? The answer is the love/hate relationship with the automobile. Much autombilia–prints, sheet music, steins, postcards, valentines–illustrates the conflict between automobile lover and hater.
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Collectible Automobilia Ashtray (10/1/08)
 “Automobilia” comes in many forms. Often, these objects are cross collectibles (i.e. ashtrays). One of the most interesting early ashtrays is the one pictured.
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Ernest Montaut: A Collectible Automobilia Artist (10/1/08)
 Not too many years ago the automobile was considered the work of madmen, determined to corrupt the morals of our society, not to mention upset the enterprise of the blacksmith, the horse breeder and the harness maker. (They weren’t far from the truth.) It is difficult for the current generation to understand how the automobile caught the world’s imagination.
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Automobile Collectibles and Memorabilia Market is Large and Hot (4/14/08)
 While you are out there finding all those great license plates I talked about in the blog the other day, be sure to keep your antenna up for other collectible automobile items. There isn’t a larger group of collectors than the car enthusiasts, with the exception of sports collectors.
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Experiencing Americana of the 20th Century (11/30/07)
There was a time when life was slower paced, travel was an adventure, and retail wasn’t largely made up of national brands. The automobile was just becoming affordable, the West was calling out to the adventurous, and a migration of post WWII families we heading to California.
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