Summer Collector's Choice Auction

July 25th-26th, 2023

Beginning at 9:00 AM daily

Auction closed

Featuring over 900 lots! Including over 300 antique and vintage dolls, including some excellent French examples such as a spectacular BRU JNE NO. 7, as well as German including many carved wood Schoenhuts, also featuring items from the lifetime collection of Mrs. Terrie Staffenhagen, Oelwein, Iowa. Also featuring over 100 vintage toys. Including tin wind ups, cast iron and others. Over 250 pieces of high-quality porcelain including many hand painted examples and including Royal Vienna, Limoges and over 75 pieces of R.S. Prussia. Additionally, a great offering of over 200 pieces of art glass including both American and European such as Galle, Daum Nancy, Lalique (30 pieces) Tiffany, Steuben, Loetz, Fenton, Venetian art glass and more. Also featuring over 250 historical autographs from the lifetime collection of Mr. Arthur Bell (1909-1995) Boston, MA. Including politicians such as J. F. Kennedy and RFK, Eisenhower, both Roosevelts, Johnson, and Reagan. As well as authors including Hemmingway, Carl Sandburg (20) Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, Upton Sinclair, Agatha Christie, Dr. Seuss and many others. Also, astronauts and explorers including Mercury, Gemini and Apollo crew members as well as Lindberg, Edmund Hillary, Peary and more. Also, over 70 vintage clocks of various types including a good selection of novelty types as well as an interesting offering of over 200 vintage knives including bowie and other examples. Plus furniture, lamps, Native America and Eskimo art. And many other items.

Spectacular French Dolls
Sampling of the over 300 antique and vintage dolls including a spectacular BRU JNE NO.7
Vintage Toys
Sampling of the over 100 vintage toys including tin wind ups, cast iron, and others
Porcelain Urns
Sampling of the over 250 pieces of vintage porcelain including Serves, Royal Vienna, and Limoges
Daum Nancy art glass
Daum Nancy covered jar one of over 200 pieces of European and American art glass
Apollo crew signed photo
Crew of the Apollo 11 signed photo (one of over 24 NASA signed photos)
Helen Keller poem
Great Hellen Keller handwritten and signed verse
from the Author Bell (1909-1995) lifetime collection of autographs
Lalique art glass
One of over 30 pieces of Lalique art glass
Vases
Two of over 200 pieces of spectacular hand-painted porcelain