Incredible Toys, collectibles, vintage MEGA sale

This sale contains the estate of the late James "Prince" Hughes. A long time Austin resident, Prince became the buyer for Oat Willie's head shop in the 1970's and then became the owner of Atomic City in the early 1980's. He transformed the business into a funky, ahead of its time store, with toys, gadgets and all kinds of eclectic merchandise. Atomic City became a place to hang out and have fun. When the store closed in 2010, we lost another home town business, that long time Austinites cherish.

The sale will be conducted on consecutive weekends in January. LOTS of new items will be available on the second weekend. There is not enough room to display all of the items, that are part of this wonderful sale.

Furniture includes a wonderful French Art Deco bedroom set including a full/queen size bed, large armoire and 2 bedside tables. Other furniture pieces include several metal bookshelves and bookcases, a couple of mid century chairs, a floor model Zenith radio circa 1935 (SOLD), hanging wood and glass display cabinet, deco style table, aluminum and glass Doctor's cabinet (sold), metal art deco bench, tiered bookcases and more.

***  PLEASE NOTE: SOME OF THE FURNITURE PIECES CANNOT BE REMOVED UNTIL AFTER THE SECOND WEEKEND  !!      ****

The collectibles feature a HUGE amount of vintage Japanese toys and date from the 60's/70's through the 2000's. There are lots of Godzilla items (SOME SOLD), Japanese Anime characters and accessories, large assortment of Astro Boy/Mighty Atom items, similar amount of Ultraman items (SOME SOLD) and more. There are figures, inflatables, plastic and vinyl, bags, clocks, banks and more. Many of these toys are new in box or gently used with boxes.  Toys and collectibles also include bobbleheads and vintage chalkware figures. The sheer quantity and quality are astonishing.

The bathroom is decorated with a 20,000 Leagues under the sea theme and there is also an area with a movie "Metropolis" theme. There are several vintage light fixtures and lamps and several nice fans (vintage and metal Vornado).

There is a MASSIVE Halloween collection (MOST SOLD) consisting of figures, vintage paper mache items, candy buckets, metal signs, vintage noise makers, framed collages, framed prints, hanging items, decorations and ornaments, paper items of all kinds, plastic, wood and ceramic decorative masks, small selection of records (MANY SOLD) (eclectic, Brazilian) and even more. These items are mostly vintage and very collectible and makers include US metal toy mfg co, Hobgoblins, Poliwoggs, Bethany Lowe, Department 56, Seasons Gone By and others.

You will also find a large selection of books and magazines - including design books (primarily interiors and art deco),art, world war II (pacific theater)), black collectibles (MOST SOLD), World's Fair items (1933 and 1939), price guides, Japanese erotica, art deco plastic what not boxes, tattoo related books and more. We also have Crosley and RCA tabletop radios, two vintage all in one phonographs, cd and vhs players, neat Mid century Atom Bomb AM radio (SOLD), collectible metal cars (Schylling and others), wood airplanes (Toys and Models Productions), wooden scale model of the French liner SS Normandie, vintage and antique clocks, large Raffia folk art airplane, vintage pin up calendars, several different vintage Austin Carnaval posters (SOME SOLD) (duplicates on most), some nice vintage office items, Hakata figures, antique and vintage telephones and Bakelite pieces. There are several collectible incense burners (art deco era), Department 56 Christmas pieces, vintage movie posters, ephemera items, comics and toy magazines, framed exhibition posters (signed by Masima Teraoka), antique woodcut prints (MOST SOLD), signed tattoo photos (SOLD) and more.

Kitchen items include many Art Deco chrome pieces (including Chase and Manning Bowman), pots and pans, cast iron pieces (Lodge), Pintoria dishes by Metlox, vintage glassware, vintage Waring blender, vintage mixer, pink elephant cocktail shaker and ice bucket with glasses, art deco chrome gyro tray, Peter Arno glasses, Zeppelin cocktail shaker (SOLD) and even more.

There is also an arcade game circa 1946 called Atomic Bomber. The arcade game is available right away. It is working and is in very good condition. This is a nickel game with nice graphics.  ***  (SOLD)   ***

The outside area and detached garage items include a nice amount of small pottery planters, metal mesh glider (SOLD), decorative yard art, tools, a few yard tools, art supplies, vintage metal chairs, yard blower, extension cords and power strips, deco fountain, folding garden seats and more.