Lancaster Farming o THE ANTIQUE DETECTIVE Anne Gilbert Is This The Time To Sell Antiques, Collectibles? If Christmas shopping and the recession have put a big hole in your bank account, this could just be the right time to unload antiques, collectibles and “junk.” Keep in mind that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” The objects cluttering closets and ga rages can put money in your pocket. As one successful garage sale person told me, “Honey, peo ple always buy junk...including me. Junk is irresistible.” At the top end of antiques is another theory that is proven; rare and costly antiques will al ways find a wealthy buyer or dealer. Which means the average an tique and collectible is left in limbo. In troubled financial times people crowd garage and estate sales hoping to either find a bar gain or to parlay a two dollar purchase into a future $2O sale. How well the seller does depends on not only what he sells but where he sells it. Many people do well with col lectibles on the internet. Begin by seeing if there are items similar to yours listed, the asking price, and for how much do they actually bring. Exposure is important and cer tainly the internet sites offer it. Ever since Roadshow became a television happening, auction houses have been deluged with mail. So much so that they don’t PUBLIC AUCTION Outstanding Inventory of ANTIQUES Saturday, December 14,2002 # 9:00 a.m. Location: From Morgantown • Rt. 23 East approx. 3 miles to Right on Pine St to sale on left 51S. Pine Street Chester County, Elverson, PA Furniture: 1850 - 1860 Gram painted wardrobe, pine wardrobe w/shelves, spoon-carved Arts & (Traits wardrobe, 1830's - 40’s jam cupboard, 4 blanket chests, 2 wood boxes, marble top dresser, 1890 chest nut buffet, oak refrigerator, 12 tin pie safe, lawyer’s desk, 2 Regulator clocks, cherry drop-leaf table, pine comer cup board. 6 tin pie sate, 4 dry sinks, 2 drawer stand, mustard painted hanging cupboard, chestnut wash stand, 2 jelly cup boards, pine wash stand, utility table, built-m hand made corner cupboard, mortise and tenon benches, blue painted wall cabinet, 1830 - 1840 dough box w/splayed legs, dough boxes, oak display case oak telephone, 5 painted chairs, lB3o’s - 40’s farm table w/drawers, oak wash stands, barber shop cabinet, clothes tiee, school masters desk, 4 tier barrister bookcase, bread boards, blind coiner cupboard, flip top table, trunks, stands, rockers, shaving mir ror w/diawer, high chair, children’s rockers and other items not mentioned Miscellaneous: Pitchei and bowl sets, anvil, crocks, baskets, Wallace Nutting prints, broad axe. old nguishers, coffee mills, many kero lamps, Aladdin oil lamp, Yellowware bowls, chocolate sets, 5 pieces of Sleepy-eye pottery. Gone with the Wind lamps, Menno folk art, bowls. Gingerbread clock, lanterns. Victorian caster sets, Toleware spice canisters, gramteware pieces, agate coffee pots, vani ty sets, hay hook, early oven peel, candle molds, coffee grinders, utensils, blue decorated stoneware, Red Wing cookie jars, Liverpool pottery baby dish, com molds, braid ed rugs, mustache cups, dovetailed tea caddy, checker boaid. quilts, Rebecca at the Well, Blue Willow china, brass iron, wooden tubs. Edison phonograph, old tins, mirrors, and many other items. w of Sale: Friday, December 13 - 4:00p.m. - 8:00p.m. Note: Owners are retiring and selling contents of their antique shop and some of their personal collection. Don't miss this sale! Many great pieces! Come enjoy the day with us Sale held indoors - food will be available. Teims Cash 01 PA Check - No out ot stale checks NO BUYER’S PREMIUM Terms by: Village Store Antiques Jay and Elaine Quillen 610-286-5792 , jj* ’ •f**. ' ass^gg"?y-**~ ■ SOT Tracey L. Jones Auctioneers (610) 286-7834 AU-3607-L bother to answer unless the item is going to sell for big bucks. My own experiences with auction houses includes getting answers from Wm. Doyle Galleries. No answers in five different catego ries from Skinner. I like the way Butterfield and Butterfield, San Francisco, California, does it via the internet. You scan a photo and e-mail it, with a letter describing the item. They e-mail back with an esti mated value, and the rest is up to you. Look in the antiques maga zines for auctions. Items that fit into the auction houses special ties can do well. For instance me dium range items in various col lectibles categories do well at James D. Julia auctions in Fair field, Maine. Toys, advertising items, and Victorian art glass are staples. Printed items, books, maps, and photographs do well at Swann Galleries in New York. Don’t be discouraged if you know you have an object worth more than a thousand dollars (you’ve researched), yet three auction houses have rejected it. The fourth may buy it. Several years ago I submitted a Chinese calligraphy (book form), 18th century to three auction houses. It had been in the family for years, and I feared it would get damaged. The fourth auction house accepted it, although they didn’t expect more than $l,OOO for it. www.tljonesauctioneers.com Surprise! It sold for $25,000 after two Koreans fought it out. Always insist on a reserve that means your object can’t be sold under that price. CLUES: Spend a few dollars on several of the Price Guides to get an idea of what your items could sell for. Warmen's, Kovel's, and Schroeder’s are in most book stores. Be realistic about your treasures. Sentiment doesn't count. Expect less than half if you sell using their prices. Unusual or one-of-a-kind an tiques stand a better chance than mass-produced items. Exceptions include Modernism pieces, Art Deco, and 20th cen tury toys. Be aware of what 20th century items are popular with buyers. Remember just about ev erything is being collected but isn't selling for big money. Old magazines can add up to good money depending on sub ject matter, condition and scarci ty. Popular are those with old car advertisements or unusual cov ers. “Fortune'' magazines from the 19305-1940 s can sell for $3O or more apiece. Covers and ads are taken apart by dealers and sold as art for $25 and up. Those with art by famous illus trators such as Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell are ea gerly sought. Take photos and small objects to the antique shows. You’d be surprised how —_ much money you can make with little treasures. Dealers are always on the lookout. Don’t take junk to the shows. Have a garage sale for cheap, cheap prices. A good idea is a table with a sign reading “nothing over $l.” People do love junk. Fortune magazine pages and “Fortune” magazine cov ers. COMPLETE AUCTIONEERING SERVICE PUBLIC AUCTION Saturday, December 14, 2002 @ 9.00 am Selling Real Estate, Antiques, Collectibles, & Guns from the former home of Scottanna Wagner, Beaver Springs PA Directions: From Harrisburg take Rts 1I&15 north Four miles north of Liverpool turn left and travel north on Rt 104 In Middleburg turn left and trav el south/west on Rt 522 to the town ot Beaver Springs Auction will be on the right across the road from M&T Bank Parcel 1: 4 Bedroom, 2 5 Bath, 2 Story Home with Kitchen, Living Room. Dining Room, & Family Room w/Fireplace Extras include 2 Car Garage & Patio All this located on a 1/2 acre lot Parcel 2: 613 Acre Lot with Frontage on Rt 522, Public Water & Sewci Parcel 3: 955 Acre Building Site, Public Water & Sewer Parcel 4: 960 Building Site, Public Water & Sewer TERMS: 10% down, balance in 45 days Real Estate oltered at 12 00 noon Parcels 1-4 Adjoin, buy I or all Attorney Marvin Rudmsky, 570-743-2333 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 8 hooked rugs to include Bonnet gul & geometnc. Wash stands, Victonan wal nut platform rocker. Canning cupboard. Mirror & matching shell. Cheese cut ter plank mcker, Organ & piano stools. Large plank rocker w/aims. Wood box. Duncan Phyfe stand. Wood medicine cabinet. Gilded muror. Studded wall racks. Small cast chunk stove, Caned lockei. Lots ot local ads. Deep walnut frames. Round & flat top trunks. Fiddle & case. Besson & Co trombone. 4 pc cast patio set, Misc crocks, Cedai dresser box, (7) Curnci & Ives prints & oth ers, Several photo albums, some in tin types. Mold dish. Ledgeis 1920’s & 30's. Old photos. Home spun. Transfer cup & saucei, Kero lamps, one wall type. Official World’s Fair picture 1933, H J Heinz clock. Depression glass, German dish, Kundo dome clock, Homei Laughhn Virginia Rose. Ironstone pieces. Snyder County 76 plate. Pressed & pattern glass, Stcmwaie, String holders; Christmas items, Glass candle sticks. Cheese box, #l4 Gnswold try pan, Troxelville band uniform. Stoneware mixing bowl. Button & high top ladies' shoes. Linens & fancy work. Ladies’ hats. Ladies’ hankies. Nutmeg grater, 3 strawberry containers. Souvenir cup ot Troxelville, Rolling pm. Brass faced scales, James paper machc barrel bank. Rollman food chopper. #ll Mt Joy. Bone handled folks, Cheiry seeder. Wood Pepsi carrier-painted. Canister set. Crock style cookie )ar, Cream cans. 78 records. Rakestraw ice ucam buck et, Brass bell, Keebler Clock Co mini coo-coo clock, Avon bottles, Stanley Rule & Level Co plane #ll3, Zane Grey books & others, Legislatoi handbook, 1902; Atlas ol Snyder County 1868, Parlor, organ & melodian music 1869, Sheet music, Croquet set, Linn’s annuals of the Buffalo Valley 1877. American Encyclopedia ot Histoiy 1860, Canning |ars Glenfield model 25, 22 cal. Winchester MD 94, pte-64, 50 WCT Ser#l 564749. Stevens model 46. 22 cal w/Kansar scope, Springfield model 05-A5. 50-06 all original, serial #40692442. US Springfield Armory model 1905. 50-06 serial #905537, Remington 50 cal pump, serial #47868. US model ol 1917 50-06 Remington senal #lBl9l. Savage Spoitei 22 cal w/scope & clip. Sa\age model 219. 22 Hornet w/scopc. Savage model 240 o\ei/under 20 gauge/222 Remington Serial #9365 Modem elec Gone with the Wind lamp. Bulchei block cotmlei, TV, Gun cabi net. Small appliances. Washei & diyei. Sleico. Asst ol lamps. 4 Diawei file cabinet. Bedding & towels. Misc fishing gear. Lawn sprcadei. Vanciv ot hand tools Auction held m heated tent KENNETH E. MASSINGER RR 02, Box 985 McClure, PA 17841 (570) 658-3536 AU-D01532-L Cl Wilt'S* REAL ESTATE GUNS to be sold at I 00 pm HOUSEHOLD ITEMS .... NEIL A. COURTNEY , In* Kflfl R.D. #1 Box 239 r-—T' Bi Richfield, PA 17086 (570) 539-8791 AU-0Q2651-L WMW
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