The trading-card hobby has evolved from nostalgia to a serious asset class. Analysts valued the market at about $15 billion ...

Marcie Cheung has 30 Minnie Mouse ears hanging on the wall of her Renton office. Lindsay Yost placed 14 vintage lunchboxes atop her bookcase in West Seattle. Trent Merrill once possessed an entire ...

The word "collector" can bring to mind a connoisseur of fine art and, just as easily, an overzealous hoarder. Hummel figurines, matchbooks, ashtrays, bubblegum cards and campaign buttons - items that ...