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In November, WorthPoint’s Industry Partners are presenting pre-Thanksgiving sales filled with sought-after antiques and collectibles. Premiere Auction Galleries offers a 1940s Bakelite and Catalin Mahjong set, estimated at $150 to $300, capitalizing on the game’s rising popularity—especially among younger collectors—with vintage plastic sets from the Golden Age prized for their aged patina and completeness. Akiba Galleries presents a 1970s Kirsch-Hamilton Aurora Clock, estimated at $300 to $800, a Space-Age design that turns time into art using polarized light and birefringent filters, originally recognized by the Museum of Modern Art for its shifting colors and patterns. Valley Auctions features a graded 1984 G.I. Joe Baroness action figure, estimated at $20 to $1,000, highlighting the character’s enduring appeal and the premium placed on factory-sealed, high-grade examples. Hartzell’s Auction Gallery includes an antique German clockwork Santa Claus nodder, estimated at $3,000 to $6,000, a holiday collectible with working clockwork mechanics where large 19th-century German pieces command five- and six-figure prices. Cornell Auctions offers a rare inscribed first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird, estimated at $20,000 to $40,000, given by Harper Lee to Truman Capote, illustrating how inscribed literary first editions are exceptionally rare and valuable. Together, these November sales present a pre-Thanksgiving bounty spanning vintage games, design objects, toys, holiday memorabilia, and rare literature, with prices reflecting rarity, condition, and historical significance.
