Toy Auctions

SIGNATURE | March 2024

Saturday | March 16 at 11AM
The Curtis & Linda Smith Collection

Recognized as one of the finest in quality and condition of pre-1900 American toys, this collection is unrivaled with rarity and legendary provenance from all the great early collectors and includes many actual examples from the Bernard Barenholtz, Blair Whitton and Louis Hertz books. Early American clockwork toys, primitive American tin pieces with bright paint, highlight worthy cast iron toys and mechanical banks, an array of early German childrens squeak toys, Marklin and other rare German tinplate pieces, and a few additional surprises. 

ANNUAL SPRING | April 2024

April 19-20, 2024
Friday & Saturday

Our annual spring auction is packed with highlight for the top quality collectors. Included amongst the two days will be hundreds of European Wind-up toys & Trains, American RR, Spelter stills and Mechanical banks, Horse drawn & choice Cast iron toys,  Japanese space & tinplate, Pressed steel & Pedal cars, Tether cars, great Penny toys, Automatons, top tier Christmas & Holiday items, and more.

Do not hesitate to contact us for assistance with registration, bidding or any other questions.

SIGNATURE | May 2024

Saturday | May 18, 2024
The Personal Haley Collection

The May Signature sale will be an exclusive auction of the personal collection of one of Britain’s most influential toy-collecting couples: John and Adrianne Haley. Within the industry, the Haley name is both significant and respected. This quietly spoken Yorkshire couple has made an immense contribution to the collecting hobby over the past half-century, supplying grateful US buyers with rare, high-quality European toys and choice iron banks.

This will certainly be an auction to reach all corners of the world! 
More auction details coming soon…

Future Auctions | 2024 and beyond

Thinking about how to sell your collection?

As always, we welcome all consignments for future auctions; single items or entire collections. We make the selling process easy and straightforward with complete accountability for your items throughout the entire process. We invite you to sell with Bertoia Auctions and learn why we have maintained our reputation as the best for over 35 years.

All selling discussion are confidential.

Please contact us to discuss the selling options, future auction schedule, and to learn more about the easy process of selling with Bertoia Auctions.