WorthPoint

🏦🥇 The Tangible Ledger: what's hiding in your house? by William Seippel, CEO WorthPoint Corporation

On September 14, 2026, WorthPoint logged 162,213 transactions worth $41.11M in tangible assets (avg lot $253.42).
A single 1904 Olympic gold medal sold for $545,371 — and Olympic gold keeps climbing. Rarity plus history is a powerful combination.

🥇 1904 St. Louis Olympics gold medal, men's 110m hurdles — $545,371 (RR Auction)
⚾ 1951 Bowman #253 Mickey Mantle rookie, PSA 5 — $47,237 (The Collector's Collection)
⛽ Erie Cash Recorder gas pump, Polly Gas livery — $24,797 (Miller & Miller Auctions)
💵 Series 2009A $100 bill, ultra-low serial no. 120 — $508 (Eastern European Auctions)

That $100 bill sold for 5× face — because of the serial number. Details are everything. WorthPoint has over 1 billion sold prices; before you sell, insure, or pass something down, find out what it's actually worth.

👉 WorthPoint Price Guide: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tangibleledger&utm_content=whatsyours

Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd. The Collector Connection RR Auction

📌 That fancy brooch on grandma's coat? Its ancestors were basically safety pins.

Before they were dazzling decorations, brooches had one job: holding your clothes together in ancient times. Function first, sparkle later.

This week's WorthPoint Dictionary covers the Brooch — from 1800s cameos and Art Deco showstoppers to Bakelite costume pieces by Cartier, Tiffany, and Coro.

Pro tip: flip it over — the clasp tells the story. A "C clasp" usually means the 1800s; the rollover safety catch didn't appear until the late 1920s. That tiny detail can date a piece almost a century. 👀

👉 See what your brooches are really worth — https://www.worthpoint.com/dictionary/p/jewelry/pins/brooch

Same donations. Same thrift bins. One change took the The Salvation Army USA's art sales from ~$20,000 a year to over $500,000. 💰🙏

The change? Knowing what things are actually worth. Director of e-commerce Eric Rader and his team use WorthPoint to research donated pieces, match maker's marks, and get each item in front of the right buyer — instead of guessing. And every extra dollar goes straight back into their programs.

As Rader puts it: "It saves us time, makes us money, and helps us do more good for more people."

Real value data isn't just for collectors — it changes lives. See what your items are worth. 👇
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia

🏦🌙 The Tangible Ledger: what's hiding in your house? by William Seippel, CEO WorthPoint Corporation

On September 13, 2026, WorthPoint logged 130,818 transactions worth $28.99M in tangible assets (avg lot $221.64).
Neil Armstrong's 18K gold Omega Speedmaster cost about $1,200 new. It just sold for $2,125,000. Provenance is everything.

🌙 Neil Armstrong's 18K gold Omega Speedmaster — $2,125,000 (RR Auction)
🦅 Pair of 80" cast-stone garden griffins — $10,000 (REDLANDS ANTIQUE AUCTION)
🎎 Hummel Sister's Children, #54 of 300 — $3,964 (House of Hummels)
⌚ Rolex Datejust 1601, 14K gold — $4,674 (Seminole Estate Auction & Liq LLC)

Over 1 billion sold prices. Before you sell, insure, or pass something down — find out what it's actually worth.

👉 WorthPoint Price Guide: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tangibleledger&utm_content=whatsyours

📚 Book of the Week

That old brooch in Grandma's jewelry box has more history behind it than you'd think — the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Vikings were all pinning them on thousands of years ago. 📌✨

The Brooches of Many Nations by Harriet A. Heaton (1904) is a 140-page illustrated journey through the brooch across civilizations — Egyptian jewellery, Greek and Graeco-Roman fibulae, Scandinavian designs, and the whole evolution of this deceptively simple piece. The author marvels that ancient craftsmanship was so fine, modern makers would be proud to match it.

So before you write off that inherited pin as "old junk"… it might be carrying a few thousand years of style. 💎

📖 Explore it in the WorthPoint Digital Library: https://www.worthpoint.com/books/0009900000498_the-brooches-many-nations?q=brooch

A toy car that cost pennies in 1954 just sold for $21,368. 🚌📈

Vintage Matchbox cars from the British Lesney era (1953–70s) have quietly become a serious tangible asset — and with the new Matchbox movie landing October 9, interest is revving up. A rare green London bus hit $21,368, a wrong-color factory-error tow truck brought $7,495, and a cream Mercury Cougar set a world record at nearly $29,500. 🏎️

The difference between a $5 car and a $5,000 one? Rare colors, factory errors, original boxes. Tiny details, huge value — if you know what to look for.

WorthPoint tracks it all with 1 billion+ real sale prices. 👇
https://www.worthpoint.com/articles/collectibles/rare-matchbox-cars-why-lesney-era-vehicles-sell-for-thousands

🏦🍎 The Tangible Ledger: what's hiding in your house? by William Seippel, CEO WorthPoint Corporation

On September 12, 2026, WorthPoint logged 125,284 transactions worth $57.59M in tangible assets (avg lot $459.71).
The one that stops you: a single one-page bank statement — ending balance $142.55 — sold for $828,569. Because it was Steve Jobs's, from Wells Fargo, months before Apple existed. Provenance is everything.

This week's standouts:
🧾 Apple check no. 1, signed by Jobs & Wozniak — $2,409,886 (RR Auction)
🍎 Apple's first Wells Fargo bank statement, March 1976 — $828,569 (RR Auction)
🖼️ Apple's first advertising poster, from Jobs's parents' living room — $659,900 (RR Auction)
🔊 Wilson Audio Chronosonic XVX speakers ($300K+ new) — $129,800 (EJ's Auction & Appraisal)

That's what real market data looks like. WorthPoint has over 1 billion sold prices — before you sell, insure, or pass something down, find out what it's actually worth.

👉 Search your finds in the WorthPoint Price Guide: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tangibleledger&utm_content=whatsyours

💎 Marks of the Week: Vintage Costume Jewelry Edition ✨

💎 DeNicola — the NYC house whose enameled zodiac-sign brooches are so collectible today they can fetch hundreds of dollars each. Costume jewelry with fine-jewelry ambitions.
https://www.worthpoint.com/marks/jewelry/mark-592801_jerry-denicola-jewelry

✨ Calvaire — founded in the 1920s by two women who sailed to Paris, handpicked jewelry, and stamped it with their own name. Genuinely rare today.
https://www.worthpoint.com/marks/jewelry/mark-592774_calvaire-inc-jewelry

Two signed New York marks, both found on brooches — proof that the little name tucked inside an oval or rectangle is what turns "old pin" into "collectible." That's the whole game. 📌

It always knew the difference between the hand with permission… and the small one hoping not to get caught. 🍪

In Wayne Jordan's latest, a 1960s McCoy "Chef" cookie jar tells its own story — the careful lift of the lid, the quick reach inside, the guilty ceramic clink. For decades it sat on the counter doing its job: useful, familiar, one cookie lighter than anyone let on. 👨‍🍳

Now hands still lift its hat — but they're checking the rim for chips and reading the mark on its back. As it puts it: "Once, hands opened me because they wanted what I held. Now they open me because they want to know what I've survived."

WorthPoint's Wayne Jordan tells the story. 👇
https://www.worthpoint.com/articles/collectibles/when-no-one-was-looking-the-life-of-a-1960s-mccoy-chef-cookie-jar

🏦💻 The Tangible Ledger: what's hiding in your house? by William Seippel, CEO WorthPoint Corporation

Last week WorthPoint logged 123,674 transactions worth $26.1M in tangible assets (avg lot $211.02).

One was an Apple-1 computer stuffed into an old typewriter case — it sold for nearly half a million. The first owner had no idea. That's the point: the difference between "junk" and "asset" is knowing what you've got.

This week's standouts:
💻 Apple-1 computer in a modified typewriter case — RR Auction
🎨 Alex Katz Wet Night, 1996 oil on canvas — Ahlers & Ogletree
🐎 Stanley Wanlass Passing of the Horse bronze (a record) — Bertoia Auctions
⚠️ An attributed Roy Lichtenstein — unverified, and it sold cheap — Irvington Auction

Over 1 billion sold prices. Before you sell, insure, or pass something down — find out what it's actually worth.

👉 Search your finds in the WorthPoint Price Guide: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tangibleledger&utm_content=whatsyours
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery Bertoia Auctions RR Auction