Collectibles

DID YOU EVER WANT TO...OPEN A PHARAOH'S TOMB ???
 Imagine yourself an intrepid archaeologist...on the verge of MANKIND'S GREATEST DISCOVERY.  With trembling fingers you peel back the millennia-old layers of soot...you defy the phararonic curses scrawled about...you ignore the billowing clouds of sacred dust.  The door creaks, groans.  The twisting and splitting of wood greets your ear like a Brahms symphony.  You're closer.  Finally it gives way and another world, a world conjured up in legend and fable, becomes a reality.  Riches and splendor beyond thought.  Gold and jewels, baubles of the conquerors and the conquered, rare minerals and ivory tusks, everything bedecked in a splendor that shakes the senses.
 Can it be real?
 A fantasy?
 Could it happen again, or is this kind of adventure consigned strictly to the history books?
 Suppose there was ONE MORE CHANCE.  One pharaoh's tomb yet unopened, unplundered still caught in time like a fly in amber.  Suppose it was RIGHT HERE, in the cement caverns of New York, not sequestered amid the shifting sands of a strange foreign land?  And no curses upon those who enter  !!
 The Cambridge-Essex Stamp Co. is a MINE OF RICHES FOR THE COLLECTOR.  Mere words pale in an attempt at description.  There has never been a collector establishment quite the match of it.  Think of the quaintness and charm of Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop."  Toss in a few galleries of the British Museum, half a cellar worth of the Louvre in Paris, three or four acres of the more colorful mideast bazaars, and the sort of collecting spirit that inspired super-eccentrics like the Collyer Brothers to cram every square centimeter with THINGS, THINGS, and MORE THINGS.  Then and only then MIGHT you form a passably plausible concept of what lurks through the portals of 41 Kensico Drive, Mount Kisco, NY.
 Rare old documents, postage stamps by the (literally) millions in bags/cartons/albums, paper ephemera reflecting every facet of American life since the days of Columbus, porcelain, silverware, coins spanning 2,500 years, autographs of celebrities from Sitting Bull to Marilyn Monroe, finely crafted artifacts of every ethnic culture, trophy specimens that would turn Teddy Roosevelt green with envy...  The variety, the scope, the sheer quantity is dazzling.  So much in one location.  AND ALL OF IT FOR SALE, not like the things in those stodgy old hands-off museums!
WHATEVER YOU COLLECT, IT'S HERE FOR YOU...WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED.  But it won't last forever (let's face it, even the pyramids have lost a stone or two).  And when gone, a big slice of American folklore will be gone.

 

ADVERTISING.	Trade cards, postcards, billheads, letterheads, giveaways, envelopes.
AUTOS.	Catalogues, photos, memorabilia, racing and luxury cars, all time periods.
AVIATION.	Rare original photos, magazines, airline baggage labels.
BASEBALL.	Enormous holding of memorabilia from the 19th century onward, incl. autographs.
BASKETBALL.	Programs tickets, yearbooks, signed photos and balls.
BICYCLES.	Advertising items, souvenirs, premiums, brochures.
BLACK HISTORY.	Large selection of many types of collectible and historic items.
BODYBUILDING.	Booklets, advertisements, memorabilia.
BOWLING.	Varied selection
BOXING.	Huge array of boxing items including early Ring and other mags, photos etc.
CIGAR BOX LABELS.	Many unusual and attractive types, priced to go.
CIRCUS.	Programs, souvenir books, first day covers, photos, brochures, cards, tickets
CIVIL WAR.	One of the largest holdings in dealer hands: every kind of paper items!
COLONIAL & REVOLUTIONARY.	Documents, paper currency, signatures, prints, portraits.
COMICS & COMIC ART.	Included in this collection is a fine selection of original cels.
FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS.	Rare to common financial items from every locality, 1600's-onward.
FIREFIGHTING.	Badges, news clippings, early Harper's, prints, documents.
GOLF.	Fabulous array of paper and non-paper items: books, novelties, signed photos.
HOCKEY.	Yearbooks, jerseys, signed pucks, photos from early years to current.
JUDAICA.	Enormous collection of historical and celebrity items.
KENNEDY.	One of our largest collections:  JFK buttons, memorial items, cards etc.
LEGAL DOCUMENTS.	Centuries of legal documents U.S. and foreign, many unresearched.
LINCOLN.	Very large collection incl. original portraits, cartoons, campaign items.
LINDBERGH.	Badges, medals, rare photographs, signatures, flown covers, books.
MAGIC.	Early magic catalogues, magazines, brochures, advertisements, rare signatures.
NEW YORK CITY.	The city's changing face captured in stereo slides, photos, ephemera.
OCEAN LINERS.	From the earliest to the present: Queen Mary, United States, etc.
OLD WEST & INDIANS.	Postcards, souvenirs, first day covers, some signatures, books.
OLYMPICS.	Souvenirs, card sets, programs, medals, books, rare signatures.
PHOTOGRAPHY.	Advertising, how-to books and booklets, and many antique photos.
PLAYBILLS.	Original complete playbills from Broadway shows of the 1920's to the present.
PRESIDENTIAL.	Every conceivable type of items from George Washington to Clinton.
RAILROAD.	Large collection of stock certificates, postcards, photos, miscellany.
SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE.	Very rare original photos used by wire services, also books.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE.	Many books filled with memorabilia, incl. rare items.
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.	This category covers sailing ships: engravings, bills of lading, etc.
SPACE.	Colossal collection of astronaut photos and signatures as well as "space covers."
STATUE OF LIBERTY.	All sorts of cards, advertising items etc. picturing the Statue.
STOCK CERTIFICATES.	Many thousands to choose from, all types of industries, 1800's-on.
TELEPHONE/TELEGRAPH.	Many advertising items, photos, cards, telegram blanks.
TENNIS.	Enormous collection of programs, postcards, views, signatures, rare photos.
TOBACCI CARDS.	Large collection of mainly old English cards:  cars, airplanes, sports, etc.
U.S. MILITARY.	All Categories from earliest times to the present.
U.S. REGIONAL.	Collectibles pertaining to specific states or cities of the U.S.
WORLD WAR I POSTERS.	Recruitment, bond and other posters by famous artists, some framed.
WORLD'S FAIR.	Ten of thousands of items:  Souvenirs, poster stamps, tickets, novelties.

The following is a WOEFULLY INCOMPLETE summary of some of the categories in which you will find optimum goodies: