A while back I wrote a blog about the U.S. Model 1941 semi-automatic rifle that was manufactured by Cranston Arms Company not far from the location of our auction gallery. A brief recap is in order, I guess. Melvin [...]

CRANSTON, R.I. — Many auction houses often have to pass on small collections that may not earn enough to cover the costs of presenting a sale; after all, business is business. But Bruneau & Co Auctioneers took a gamble [...]

In the late 1960s the co-founder of Mattel, Elliot Handler, was looking for a way to improve the diecast car toy market for kids. He felt the toy cars of the day were too realistic to really capture their [...]

CRANSTON, R.I. – A copy of Marvel Comics’ X-Men #1 from September 1963, two Pokemon booster boxes from 1999, Goudey baseball cards for star players from the 1930s, and original cover art for Drift Marlo #1 from 1962 will all come up for bid [...]

A powder horn used by a Revolutionary War soldier at the Siege of Boston, a uniform worn by a Confederate captain during the Civil War, and a Civil War-era Missouri First National Confederate flag and sash are a few [...]

Hello everyone! Welcome back to whatever mischief I will be getting myself into today! I have been really racking my brain lately for ideas and sorting through the tangled yarn that makes up my fun facts, and would you [...]

Military clothing has always fascinated me. Thirty years ago, I began studying Civil War uniforms and reproducing some of them for historical interpretation. Surviving Confederate uniforms are fairly rare, and when they are identified it adds a great human [...]

July, the month of barbecues and Patriotism, is finally here and thriving at Bruneau & Co! We have acquired an important and extremely impressive collection of paintings and sketches by prolific illustrators of Americana both my Pop Culture and [...]