DANBURY, Conn. - Bidders attending the New England Toy & Train Exchange's Summer Auction will be whistling the old Judy Garland show tune Trolley Song before the nearly 800 lots are sold July 10 and 11. Several early trolleys will be featured during the second day of the sale. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.

OAK GROVE, Mo. – For more than a quarter of a century, Frasher’s Doll Auctions has been an unfailingly reliable source for fine-quality antique dolls, teddy bears and toys. From its gallery on South Mecklin School Road in Oak Grove, Mo., east of Kansas City, Frasher’s has organized the sale of many prestigious collections.

CEDAR POINT, Ill. - The lifetime collection of Don Fiedler, comprising more than 700 lots of vintage toy trucks and motorcycles, full-size motorcycles and bicycles, advertising signs and displays, coin-op machines and more brought strong prices at an auction held jointly May 2-3 by Matthews Auctions LLC and Gavin Pope Auction Co.

Toy Collector Magazine has been notified that one of its charter contributors, Chuck Miller, has been nominated for a 2009 International Automotive Media Award for his Toy Collector Magazine article titled Redlines, Orange Tracks and Blue Streaks. The award-nominated article focusing on the 40th anniversary of Hot Wheels cars was published in Toy Collector Magazine last spring.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Schmidt's Antiques will wind up their Schmidt's Market Sunday auction June 21 with a single-owner collection of 24 tin litho toys. The antique auction will be held in conjunction with the Ann Arbor Antiques Market at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.

DENVER, Pa. - While the finest examples in each category brought predictably high prices, it was the reawakening of the middle range that spurred the most discussion at Dan Morphy Auctions' $1.3 million Spring Sale. The May 28-30 event showed strength at all levels, said auction company owner Dan Morphy, even in areas that had cooled in recent months.

VINELAND, N.J. – Bertoia Auctions has announced that the Donald Kaufman Antique Toy Collection will be featured in a profile appearing in the June 7, 2009 Sunday edition of the New York Times.

BOSTON – Enchanted Village, a famous New England department store holiday display, will be sold at auction June 18. Stanley J. Paine Auctioneers will sell the attraction in its entirety as one lot. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding. 

FAIRFIELD, Maine – The outstanding collection of cast-iron toys of the late Larry Seiber of San Jose, Calif., will be sold without reserve at James D. Julia’s Toy Auction on June 26.