Rare Book Monthly

Articles - October - 2012 Issue

Steve Maden:  An American Original

While with him I asked about his eBay sales and offered to write about him and one of his sales in October.  It’s October 1st now and his next sale is loaded into his eBay module and ready to entice bidders.  His daily trips to search high and low are about to be converted into an eBay event and he is primed.  His starting prices are almost always $9.99 with no reserves and that’s the way they are for this sale.  This way he can expect to sell almost everything but will not know until each item closes what it brings.  It’s a dose of history and a piece of Vegas and you could drive by his house a thousand times and never know the excitement and drama he experiences.

 

Here is a link to his sale.  Whether he eats cat food or caviar are now in your hands.  And here are some of his items:

1900's RPPC Baseball Team Initials R Real Photo Postcard Turkey In Background

Rare 1911 RPPC Waseda Baseball Team Tokyo Japan University Original Postcard NMT

Dorothy Gilbert Portland Ohio Railroad Yard Train Americana O/C Painting Pa./Oh.

1907 Photograph Train Snake River Bridge Sunset Branch Seward Peninsula Railroad

1900s RPPC Street Scene St Helen's Oregon Real Photo Postcard Great Image

U.S. Grant Souvenir Celluloid Memorial Ribbon 1885 Highlights Life In Uniform

HP Custard Burnett Garage East Stroudsburg Pa. Buick Cars Circa 1912-18 Photo

Western Americana Cabinet Photograph Knife & Axe Thrower Girl Surrounded Pistol

Rare RPPC 1900's German Airplane w/Machine Gun Soldiers Real Photo Postcard LOOK

1900s Photograph Train Railroad People Outside On Tracks White Pass & Yukon Rte

1900s RPPC Arcade Powder Co. Benson Arizona Real Photo Postcard Worth Look

RPPC Baling Hay Grant Ranch Near Myrtle Point Oregon @ 1908 Americana Postcard

1904 Taber Bas-Relief President Roosevelt Pach Photograph Stud Highlights

1900s RPPC Camas Paper Mills Camas Washington Real Photo Postcard Worth Look

1900s RPPC Pepin Baseball Team Period Equipment Uniforms Farmland Real Photo PC

29 Acrobat Oriental Troupe 40s/50s Photographs Sword Swallower Magic Acts MORE

1900s RPPC Armour Baseball Team House of David Related? Real Photo Postcard

Here is a link to his eBay sale.

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