Disney

In the early to mid-1930s, the German company Saalheimer & Strauss produced four versions of tin litho banks with an image of Mickey Mouse on them.

The Disney character was one of the first examples of using merchandise for promotion and early items are sought after by collectors

The importance of an original box in good condition to the value of a toy is well known. But what about a display without any toy in sight, box or no box?

A Californian sale of March 7 certainly offered great variety in age, content and price range. Promoted as A Biblio-Medley for All Tastes, it ran to well over 500 lots across its printed and supplementary, online catalogues – with at least one lot, a volume of the works of Arthur Hallam, sold for just $10.