Saturday
May312025

The Collector's Trove Presents: Our Newest Auction!

 

The auction includes nearly 400 lots from several private collections, some of these originally purchased from the collections of TSR game designers, Jim Ward, Allen Hammack, and John Rateliff!

Among the items are a huge run of TSR's Dragon Magazine, including issues 1 through 249, and AD&D and D&D products from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s—many still in their original shrink wrap! The latter includes rule books, campaign settings, accessories, source books, and adventures for Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun, Mystara, and Dragonlance!

The special items for the auction include comp copies signed by John Rateliff and autographed items by Larry Elmore, Jim Ward, and Ed Greenwood! Also included among the special items are a set of Mayfair, Roleaids, adventures, including Blasted Lands, Kobold Hall, Beastmaker Mountain, Nanorien Stones, and Fez.

The featured items include original artwork by Jim Holloway and Larry Elmore, an incredibly rare pewter chalice produced for TSR, Jim Ward's personal typewriter used to produce Deities & Demigods and many other fantastic creations, Dragon Magazine article manuscripts by Jim Ward, and a 1st print woodgrain edition of Dungeons & Dragons game—only 1000 copies ever produced!

Below is your special preview and link to bid on the remarkable items up for auction!

Begins: Sunday, June 1st, 2025

Ends: Sunday, June 8th, 2025

Here is the link to place your bids:

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(Note: Items will start listing at 5:00 pm in 1 minute increments and will all be live by 11:45 pm.)

Sunday
Feb162025

The Collector's Trove Presents: Our Latest Auction!

Welcome to our latest auction!

The auction includes over 200 lots, many of these from the collection of TSR game designer and editor, John Rateliff!

Among the items are a huge run of TSR AD&D and D&D products from the 1970s and 80s! Includes rule books, campaign settings, accessories, source books, and adventures for Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Mystara, and Dragonlance!

The special items for the auction include numerous comp copies signed by John Rateliff and autographed copies by Tom Wham, Slade Henson, and Ed Greenwood!

The featured items include two Original Collector's Editions of Dungeons & Dragons
a 6th and 6th+ printing from the late 1970s!

Below is your link to bid on the remarkable items up for auction!

Auction lots will begin listing Sunday night, February 16th at 7:00 pm CST and queued up in 1 minute increments. All items will be live by 10:30 pm CST and will be open for bidding for one week—Sunday to Sunday.

Auction Begins: Sunday, February 16th, 2025

Auction Ends: Sunday, February 23rd, 2025

Here is the link to place your bids:

The Collector's Trove eBay Auctions

(Note: Items will start listing at 5:30 pm in 1 minute increments and will all be live by 11:40 pm.)

Sunday
Nov172024

The Collector's Trove's Newest Auction!

The auction includes over 370 lots from the collection of TSR game designer and editor, John Rateliff!

Among the items are a huge run of TSR AD&D 2nd Edition items, some in original shrink wrap! Includes rule books, campaign settings, accessories, source books, and adventures for Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Birthright, Dark Sun, Spell Jammer, Mystara, Ravenloft, Masque of Red Death, Planescape, and Dragonlance!

The special items for the auction include numerous comp copies signed by John Rateliff, autographed copies by Zeb Cook, Jeff Grubb, Jeff Easley, Wolfgang Bauer, Skip Williams, Monte Cook, Steve Winter, and many more!

The featured items include internal TSR memos and manuscripts, hard to find RPGA only items, and an Adventurers Guild Retail Play Packet!

Below is your special preview and link to bid on the remarkable items up for auction!

Begins: Sunday, November 17th, 2024

Ends: Sunday, November 24th, 2024

Here is the link to place your bids:

The Collector's Trove eBay Auctions

(Note: Items will start listing at 5:30 pm in 1 minute increments and will all be live by 11:40 pm.)

Monday
Nov132023

The Collector's Trove Presents

The E. Gary Gygax Estate Auction!


This auction will include nearly 300 lots with some of the rarest and most sought after novels, game books, war games, board games, role playing games, and miniatures, as well as gaming fanzines, newsletters, and magazines. Included will be catalogs, newsletters, and magazines produced by TSR, GDW, and NIPI. These include Gary's author comp copies and comp copies he received as President of TSR, some games still in their original shrink wrap! TSR, GDW, NIPI, and more!


Among the special items are a never bound, never folded, backgammon board by legendary TSR artist Dave Trampier in 1978, signed and autographed copies of products, several product catalog slides sent to Gary for review, early character sheets and records from as far back as 1975!


The very special items for the auction include a huge assortment of TSR letterhead, stationary, memo forms, envelopes, and more, as well as numerous TSR, DDEC, and NIPI business cards from 1976 to 1987, TSR matchbooks, pens, buttons, dice, and internal TSR documents and reports. Additionally there will manuscripts from Gary's Gord the Rogue novels, AD&D rulebooks, TSR adventure modules, and his and Rob Kuntz's Sorcerer's Scroll and World of Greyhawk articles.


The featured items include 1st print copy of the AD&D Fiend Folio, signed by editor Don Turnbull, a Metro Detroit Gamers Wintercon VI D&D Tournament module, The Zodiac Dungeon from 1977, an unpublished Gods of Greyhawk manuscript by Len Lakofka, Gary's own, prototype pewter (!) TSR Lizard Man Logo belt buckle from 1977, still in its original bag, and a draft of the original, 1982, Dungeons & Dragons movie script by James Goldman!


Begins: Sunday, November 12th, 2023

Ends: Sunday, November 19th, 2023

Here is the link to place your bids:

The Collector's Trove eBay Auctions

(Note: Items will start listing at 6 pm in 1 minute increments and will all be live by 11 pm.)

Sunday
Aug202023

Presenting The E. Gary Gygax Estate Auction!

This auction will include over 250 lots with some of the rarest and most sought after novels, game books, war games, board games, role playing games, toys, and miniatures, as well as gaming fanzines, newsletters, and magazines. Included will be catalogs, newsletters, and magazines produced by TSR, GDW, and NIPI. These include Gary's author comp copies and comp copies he received as President of TSR, many games still in their original shrink wrap! TSR, GDW, NIPI, and many more!

Among the special items are a never bound, never folded, backgammon board by legendary TSR artist Dave Trampier from The Dragon #15 in June of 1978, signed and autographed copies of products, several product catalog and art slides sent to Gary for review, D&D Cartoon slides, early character sheets and records, including Gary's own copy of Character Archaic by Wee Warriors that was distributed by TSR in 1976!

The very special items for the auction include the a huge assortment of TSR letterhead, stationary, memo forms, envelopes, and more, as well as numerous TSR, DDEC, and NIPI business cards from 1976 to 1987, TSR matchbooks, pens buttons, magnets, and stickers, and internal TSR documents and reports.
 
The featured items include an artist-signed 1st print copy of the AD&D Monster Manual, a TSR in-house mapping guidelines booklet from 1983, Grenadier Solid Gold Line promotional gold plated miniatures, R6 The 384th Incarnation of Bigby's Tomb AD&D Tournament from 1984, TSR's in-house Medieval Campaign newsletters, Le Chelain Chronicles, and Gary's own bronze, 1977, TSR Lizard Man Logo belt buckle still in its original bag!
 
Bookmark the link  below to bid on the remarkable items up for auction!

Auction Begins: Sunday, August 20th, 2023

Auction Ends: Sunday, August 27th, 2023

Here is the link to place your bids:

The Collector's Trove eBay Auctions