Highlights of Old Town Auction June 27th & 28th Auction include:
ADVERTISING; paper litho, cardboard porcelain, tin and wood Signs, Calendars, Thermometers, and Trays from many different makers including; Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Hires and other soda & root beer manufactures. Early Beer and Whiskey ads including Budweiser, Congress, Red Raven, Schenley, Dewers, Pabst and more. Tobacco and Cigarette Advertising including Piedmont, Victory, Velvet, Candy and Gum and tobaccoana. Soda fountain dispensers for Coke, Wards, Hires and others. A large collection of advertising clocks including very early wood clocks for Coca Cola, Mecca Cigarettes, Ever-Ready Razors and others, Light up and Neon clocks for Pepsi-Cola, Coke and others. Vending Machines and Coolers for many products including soda (Coca Cola Pepsi and more) Gum, Matches and others. A very nice selection of early paper & cardboard lithographs (most are stone lithography) from the 19th and early 20th century advertising a wide array of products. Automotive, gas, oil, and machinery advertising, including a large cast iron Case Eagle, porcelain Marathon sign and much more. Advertising for railroads, drugstores, guns and ammo including Winchester and Colt, and other products. Quite a few advertising items featuring icons of Americana including Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty (and the Statue of Liberty), George Washington, The American Bald Eagle and others.
ANTIQUE AND COLLECTOR CARS: 1954 Chevy Corvette, 1963 Corvette, 1955 Chevrolet 2 door, 1920 Ford Model T Touring, 1936 Chevrolet Coupe Street Rod. More cars are being lined up at this time.
COUNTRY STORE: Showcases, counters, displays, seed bins, figural spittoons and match holders, Cigar cutters and lighters, candy displays country store smalls and much more.
ANTIQUE and OLDER TOYS: A fabulous collection of older toys and games from makers such as; Marx, Buddy L, Gunthermann, Lehmann, M&K, Linemar, Orkin, Ives, Keystone, Arnold, Ideal, Martin, Schoenhut, Kingsbury, Nifty, Burdette-Murray, Carrette, CIJ, Stevens and Brown, Distler, and many others. Toys from Germany, USA, Pre War Japan, France and more. Toys made of tin plate, pressed steel, cast iron, wood, paper, celluloid and other construction. Ride on toys including a 1890s Crawford bicycle from Hagerstown, MD and an unusual Autowagon that is propelled by turning the steering wheel.
We will have wind up toys, battery op toys, tin litho toys, cars, motorcycles, trucks, boat, airplanes, animals and more. A large selection of aviation toys including dirigibles and zeppelins, airplanes and games puzzles and more.
COIN OPS: Slot machines including very early slots, Watling Dewey, Mills Dewey, Mills console Golf Ball Vendor slot machine, Mint Vendor slot machine, and many more. Musical machines including a late 19th century coin-op beer garden orchestral or orchestron and a Molinari and Sons Band organ. Other coin-ops include juke boxes, trade stimulators, vending machines, Dispensers, gum ball machines, Arcade machines including a Mills Autosteroscope viewer and Exhibit Supply Digger Machine.
SALESMAN’S SAMPLES: A nice selection of salesman sample stoves including stoves from Buck, Range Eternal and more, a fabulous Coca-Cola salesman sample cooler with the very rare clip on front panel, original leather cover and the sales books, salesmans sample store fixtures including a wonderful porcelain store counter and many other sales and store samples.
AVIATION ITEMS: Several large highly detailed movie prop airplanes including a Kent Scipio flying boat, a P40 Flying Tiger War hawk, Japanese Zero, Messerschmitt ME262 and others. Many aviation related toys including a wonderful early zeppelin skittles game a very early hot air balloon tin toy, airplane and dirigible toys and much more. Airplane and lighter than air craft prints and ads. A great folk art Ford Tri Motor aircraft, Margaret Bourke-White Zeppelin Photograph; early McLoughlin Bros. Airship Lithograph; early pennant for Goodyear ship USS Akron and more.
MECHANICAL and STILL BANKS: Cast Iron banks including Jonah and the Whale, Mason Bank, Circus Bank, Palace Bank, Reclining Chinaman, Owl Turns Head (brown version) and many more. Organ Grinder and Performing Bear bank; makers including Kyser & Rex, Shepherd Hardware, Hubley, J S Stevens and More
THIS SALE ALSO WILL FEATURE MANY ITEMS IN OTHER CATEGORIES INCLUDING: Clocks, wall clocks, regulator clocks, table clocks, mantle clocks and more including a most unusual metal animated figural clock that strikes a match and lights a candle on its head, Black Forest Items including a carved figural hall tree, Folk Art including a stellar collection of Robots made by Kent Greenbaum from old toy parts and found objects, Art Deco and collectible radios, including Sparton Blue Bird radio; 1930s Mickey Mouse Radio; Circus Carnival, Magic, Minstrel, Play and other Posters including many from the 19th and early 20th century, Original Illustration Art by Elizabeth Shippen-Green, Occupational Shaving Mugs, A Great collection of Figural Match Holders, a large grouping of Figural Pocket Watch Holders, some very nice Stained Glass, Circus & Carnival items and Carousel Horses, Americana, Black Memorabilia, Collectible Guitars, Including 1969 Gibson Les Paul, Railroad Lanterns, 19th century Steam Locomotive Bells and so much more that we can’t list at this time. Randy Inman, Morphy, Rich Penn, Bertoia, Morford
Many other great items will be available at our room trading event where collectors and dealers bring items from their collections to sell in their hotel rooms. Click here for June room to room trading information
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