Welcome to the Ken Bramer Auction & Realty web site. We are a full-service auction and real estate company committed to service and attention to detail. Our web site is dedicated to bringing you the latest information on upcoming auctions. If an auction is in your future, we would like to have the opportunity to assist you with your auction needs. For more information or to set up a complimentary consultation, give us a call at 308-234-6966 and we can set up a time to visit with you. Thank you for visiting our web site. We look forward to meeting you. To receive e-mail notices of upcoming auctions, go now to ourStunning Vintage and Antique Telephones we absolutely love vintage and antique telephones. Gorgeous, timeless pieces that tell a story. Beautiful designs, lovely materials. Robust or fragile, we just love them! They tell us a story, about how the world has developed. About certain periods of time, about different materials and why they used it. But also about the tremendous technological developments.

In all of our vintage and antique telephones you can see the history and development, gorgeous and as if time stood still. We have antique telephones made by the famous Scandinavian brands, LM Ericsson, KTAS, Jydsk, Fyns and German brands, Siemens, Tefag, Mix & Genest, Siemens & Halske, Fuld and Belgian brands, ATEA, Bell MFG.stretch chair covers wholesale uk Military Artifacts, Trench Art, Relics of Warchair covers for sale in toronto we have a great interest in military items. sale office chairs philippinesFrom the Great War, WW1 with its trench warfare to WW2 with its mechanized and parachute assaults. affordable dining chairs apartment therapy

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When you take a look at our antique coffee grinders, you can almost smell the freshly ground coffee beans. Just like our antique telephones, our antique coffee grinders tell a story as well. The big robust commercial antique coffee grinders were used in a grocery store, where they ground your coffee beans when you ordered them. We have Enterprise, Landers Frary & Clark, Simplex and others. We sell also the wallmount Dutch coffee grinders with Delfts Blue or Douwe Egberts, German PeDe coffee grinders and French Peugeot Freres Brevetes coffee grinders in various shapes and sizes. The different designs and use of material show huge development, but the base principles, the grinding mechanism, remains unchanged and is something you can still find in todays coffee grinders. and our special offers!Kevin Druck was a child sitting in a dentist's chair when his mother handed him the figure of Hammerhead from "Star Wars" as a reward for good behavior. The films were his favorites growing up, the 41-year-old said.

The brown plastic toy joined his assortment of other "Star Wars" characters, which included Darth Vader, Yoda and Han Solo. As he grew older, the collection of more than 30 figures moved to his mother's attic, then to a spot under his bed, and finally on the table Sunday in front of Bruce Zalkin, a vintage toy collector. "It's kind of tough because it's my childhood," Druck said of selling the figures. His eyes moved to the X-Wing Luke Skywalker figure, his favorite. "I've had them since I was a kid." The Shrewsbury, Pa., resident looked over the collection — the figures with their cloth outfits and miniature weapons — a final time before selling the lot to Zalkin. Zalkin and his wife, Laura, are running the Antique Toy & Doll Buying Show through Thursday at the Towson University Marriott Conference Hotel. The couple travel the country, purchasing toys from individuals, then selling them to collectors. Laura Zalkin said they buy a variety of toys, antiques and jewelry from different periods but focus on toys from the 1960s and '70s.

Dolls and action figures from this period are popular at the moment. "It's all about the market, like the housing or stock market," Laura Zalkin said. "People [in their] 50s and 60s want to buy their childhoods back." Laura Zalkin married into the toy-buying business 28 years ago, she said. Bruce Zalkin is a third-generation toy buyer. He learned the trade from his grandmother and was buying toys by age 13, he said. Bruce Zalkin studies toy market trends and prices every day, his wife said. "Every day he's on Ebay," she said. "If there were 50 hours [in] a day, he'd be on Ebay for 50 hours." This dedication and years of practice have sharpened his ability to find values. "All of these creases and stuff hurt the grading scale," he said to a potential customer, his hands moving across a cardboard box holding a toy. Grading refers to state of the packaging. Value is about condition, Bruce Zalkin said. A toy with the wear and tear of a child's enjoyment is not worth as much as the same item sealed in its original packaging.

On Sunday, sales prices ranged widely. One set of dolls went as high as $150. The stacks of comic books, model sets and dolls the couple purchased on Sunday, the first day of the show, will likely be sold online. Less-valuable items go to flea markets and some are donated to thrift stores or churches, he said. Most of the items are sold within a month. The couple travels from their home in Sarasota, Fla., to do shows each month, Bruce Zalkin said. If they fly to a city, purchased items are shipped back. "The majority of stuff we sell, but we do keep some," said Bruce Zalkin, citing a medical kit for removing kidney stones from the 1870s as an example. Purchased items are quickly stacked, piled or boxed on the table behind them after each sale. The two recognize that each toy — from Druck's "Star Wars" figures to a woman's doll collection — was cherished at some point. "People are always attached," Laura Zalkin said. "There's always memories involved."