The Collector's Trove Presents: New Dragon Dice Auction!

The Collector's Trove Presents:
New Dragon Dice Auction!

The Collector's Trove Presents a massive Dragon Dice auction. Created by Lester Smith Dragon Dice is the innovative game of collectible dice where you build fantastic armies to do battle against and opponent's force.

This auction has an amazing selection of armies, unopened product displays, rares, misprints, and variants.

The Collector's Trove has been authorized to auction these items from a private collection. These items were acquired by the owner in his 30+ years of amateur and professional involvement in war games, strategy games, collectable dice and card games, board games, and role-playing games. The owner is a local from the upper Midwest with years of involvement in local and national conventions such as Gen Con and Gary Con. His countless hours as owner, partner, volunteer, organizer, event designer, and participant has established him as an industry insider.

Close involvement with Gen Con, Gary Con, Origins, and a number of other conventions over the years has given him access to game distributors, companies, designers, artists, employees, and executives alike. Over time he has been given numerous gifts and "payments" in the form of game products. Thus his collection has an amazing amount of store and company stock for companies such as TSR and WotC.

Most of these materials are abandoned stock from TSR's warehouse. When the company was being moved from Lake Geneva to the home of Wizards of the Coast the owner was asked to clean out their warehouse and ship everything to Seattle. However, they only wanted full-boxes of product to be shipped and requested all loose product be landfilled! The owner was horrified that they would want to destroy all of this brand-new, shrink-wrapped, product and asked if he could instead keep them. Fortunately for us they said yes!

Now you have the opportunity to own these lost treasures! I look forward to seeing your bids!

Auction begins Sunday, March 27th, 2016 at 9:30 p.m. CST/MEX

Auction ends Sunday, April 3rd, 2016 at 9:30 p.m. CST/MEX

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The Collector's Trove Presents: Our Massive Christmas Auction!

The Collector's Trove Presents:
Our Massive Christmas Auction!

The Collector's Trove is proud to bring you our annual Christmas auction! This year's auction is the most amazing one yet! There will be 15 collections represented with items from the likes of Jim and Laura Roslof, Dave Sutherland III, Darlene, Rob Kuntz, Allen Hammack, Zeb Cook, Kevin Hendryx, Dennis Sustare, Steve Marsh, and an all new collection from former TSR designer and editor, Jeff Leason! Also featured will be several private collections with an amazing assortment of shrinkwrapped and hard to find items from the original TSR warehouses! The auction will present over 400 (!) items including author's comp copies, play copies, manuscripts, autographed copies, printer's proofs, correspondence, TSR memorabilia, photographs, Coleco collectables, rare dice, unreleased miniature proofs, and much more. Highlights of the auction will include concept art, working files, and vintage file photocopies of the artwork for TSR's AD&D LJN action figure toy lines, TSR business cards, and original art by Timothy Truman, Darlene, Jim and Laura Roslof, and Dave Sutherland III! Among the very special items are an orange cover, recalled edition of B3 Palace of the Silver Princess autographed by the late Jean Wells (who stated that this copy was the only one she had ever autographed and the only one she would ever autograph!) and an incredible full-color original piece of Dungeons & Dragons cover art by TSR legend Jim Roslof!

First Lot Opens Sunday, December 6th, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. CST/MEX

Last Lot Closes Sunday, December 13th, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. CST/MEX

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The Allen Hammack Auctions Are Ending Tonight!

The Allen Hammack Auctions Are Ending Tonight!

The Collector's Trove is proud to bring you the first set of auctions from the Allen Hammack collection! These items were acquired during the last 45 years of Allen's amateur and professional involvement with wargames, roleplaying games, strategy games, and board games. Allen worked for seven years as an employee of TSR, the company that founded the roleplaying game industry.

The auction will present over 200 items including tournament modules for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Boot Hill, and Top Secret, TSR employee memorabilia, editorial and development manuscripts, author, developer, and editor's library, review, and comp copies, autographed and inscribed copies, and personal play copies. Highlights of the auction will include a great selection of TSR pins and buttons, a nice run of TSR's employee newsletter, Random Events, TSR business cards, early Origins and Gen Con programs, badges, t-shirts, and memorabilia! Among the very special items are the manuscript for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons I9 Day of Al'Akbar, original Bill Willingham artwork for the Collector's Edition of Ghost Tower of Inverness, original Tom Wham office humor art, original tournament character sheets from Origins II, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, and Gen Con XI Against the Giants, and Allen's personal play copy of Dungeons & Dragons from 1976!

First Lot Closes Sunday, November 22nd, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. CST/MEX

Last Lot Closes Sunday, November 22nd, 2015 at 11:40 p.m. CST/MEX

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The Collector's Trove Presents: Allen Hammack Collection!

The Allen Hammack Auctions Have Begun!

The Collector's Trove is proud to bring you the first set of auctions from the Allen Hammack collection! These items were acquired during the last 45 years of Allen's amateur and professional involvement with wargames, roleplaying games, strategy games, and board games. Allen worked for seven years as an employee of TSR, the company that founded the roleplaying game industry.

The auction will present over 200 items including tournament modules for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Boot Hill, and Top Secret, TSR employee memorabilia, editorial and development manuscripts, author, developer, and editor's library, review, and comp copies, autographed and inscribed copies, and personal play copies. Highlights of the auction will include a great selection of TSR pins and buttons, a nice run of TSR's employee newsletter, Random Events, TSR business cards, early Origins and Gen Con programs, badges, t-shirts, and memorabilia! Among the very special items are the manuscript for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons I9 Day of Al'Akbar, original Bill Willingham artwork for the Collector's Edition of Ghost Tower of Inverness, original Tom Wham office humor art, original tournament character sheets from Origins II, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, and Gen Con XI Against the Giants, and Allen's personal play copy of Dungeons & Dragons from 1976!

Allen has long been a part of the gaming industry, having been involved in playing, developing, and designing board games, miniature war games, and roleplaying games.

Allen started at TSR as a games editor in 1978, developing, and contributing some writing to scores of TSR roleplaying products notably including the Dungeons & Dragons Holmes Basic Set (1978 editions) and Moldvay/Cook/Marsh Basic/Expert Sets (1980 editions), AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide, Deities & Demigods, Fiend Folio, Monster Manual II, Dungeon Masters Screen, NPC, Character, and Permanent Character Record Sheets, Monster Cards, World of Greyhawk Folio, Boot Hill (2nd edition), Dawn Patrol, Gamma World, Gangbusters, Marvel Super Heroes, and dozens of supporting adventure modules. He served in the same capacity for several of the company's boardgames, counting 4th Dimension, Divine Right, Knights of Camelot, Dungeon! (1980 revision), and Escape from New York boardgames.

His major design and writing collaborations include TSR's Top Secret that he co-designed and developed with Merle Rasmussen for about a year before the game was ready for publication. He was also part of the larger design team that produced TSR's science fiction RPG entry into the market, Star Frontiers. In addition to these large projects, Allen also had a major role as a co-designer on TSR's AD&D Monster Manual II, Monster Cards, and the legendary Slavers' series of adventure modules.

Allen was the primary designer and writer for several of TSR's classic games and modules including A3 Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords, C2 Ghost Tower of Inverness, and the minigame, Viking Gods.

He also designed several freelance products, such as TSR's I9 Day of Al'Akbar and Mayfair's Fantastic Treasures I and II, and Monsters of Myth & Legend III. He also designed and developed other games for Mayfair including their DC Heroes roleplaying game and an unpublished G.I. Joe roleplaying game that he pitched to Hasbro.

Allen's amateur and professional involvement in gaming goes back to 1972, spanning all genres of gaming and working at TSR, the company that created the games we all know and love. Quite a legacy indeed! Now you have the chance to own a portion of this legacy!

Auction Starts Sunday, November 15th, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. CST/MEX

Auction Ends Sunday, November 22nd, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. CST/MEX

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The Collector's Trove Presents: A Private Collection!

This new auction will feature an incredible collection of over 230 of some of the rarest and most sought after board and miniature games, most still in their original shrinkwrap. Also included will be an incredible selection of collectable scale WWI and II aircraft. Featuring highly detailed models from 1:100 scale Postage Stamp Planes and 1:144 scale Wings of War aircraft!

The Collector's Trove has been authorized to auction these items from a private collection. These items were acquired by their owner in his 30+ years of amateur and professional involvement in war games, strategy games, collectable dice and card games, board games, and role-playing games. The owner is a local from the upper Midwest with years of involvement in local and national conventions such as Gen Con, Gary Con, and Origins. His countless hours as owner, partner, volunteer, organizer, event designer, and participant has established him as an industry insider.

Close involvement with Gen Con, Gary Con, Origins, and a number of other conventions over the years has given him access to game distributors, companies, designers, artists, employees, and executives alike. Over time he has been given numerous gifts and "payments" in the form of game products. Thus his collection has an amazing amount of store and company stock for companies such as TSR and WotC.

Many of these games and models come from the store stock of Royal Hobby in Rockford Illinois! Royal Hobby as you know was run and managed by Jeff Perren, Gary Gygax's good friend and co-designer on such TSR games such as Cavaliers and Roundheads and Chainmail, a game that contributed to the creation of Dungeons & Dragons! Royal Hobby is also the the place where Greg Bell has worked for the last several decades and now manages! Bell is the seminal TSR artist who did artwork for TSR's flagship publication, Cavaliers and Roundheads, as well as Dungeons & Dragons, Classic Warfare, The Dragon, Greyhawk, and Blackmoor to name a few. His iconic lizardman illustration even became the new colophon for TSR in 1975!

Auction Starts Sunday November 1st, at 7:30 p.m. CST/MEX

Auction Ends Sunday November 8th, at 7:30 p.m. CST/MEX

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