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FRIDAY APRIL 28, 2023 • VOL. 53, NO. 17
Collecting Spirit In Full Bloom At The Spring Rich Penn Auction Event
Antiques At The Barn Pop-Up Show
Three-Day Sale Slated For May 12 To 14
One-Day Outdoor Event Set For May 6
May is a great month for the collecting spirit. It bursts into full bloom with the warmer weather, amplifying the urge to get out and about. That’s when collectors like the late Don Stine were shoveling coal in the boiler to get the locomotive steamed up to start hitting the auctions and the shows. An avid train collector, Stine was well known among the train collecting community in the Midwest and belonged to many of the collector clubs. His massive collection will be a featured highlight in the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 12, 13, and 14, Rich Penn Auction Event. The auction will be held at the Waterloo Convention Center in Waterloo, Iowa. Expect to see a large selection of electric and windup trains with associated layout pieces. The Stine collection had multiples of the same items, so there’s a broad and deep variety to choose from. All the major train names will be found. He also had hundreds of tin litho windup toys,
many of which are in excellent condition in the original boxes. The late Ray Reetz also collected toys. He loved both batteryoperated and tin windups, including a variety of trains, planes and automobiles. Mechanical banks like the Columbus World’s Fair,
Uncle Sam, Magician, William Tell, Paddy & the Pig, as well as dozens of others will be sold. An important collection of midto late-19th-century tobacco and brewery advertising lithography from the collection of Dave and Bonnie Libby is among the featured
pieces like perfumes, lipstick holders, early bookmarks, trade cards and a 1906 stamp holder. In small towns across middle America where the Soda Fountain serving Coca-Cola may have been the social center, the business hub was often the local and regional
By Karl Pass The Antiques at the Barn PopUp Show will be a one-day outdoor antiques show on Saturday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Twelve quality antiques dealers will be set up under two large tents on the grounds of the Brickerville Antiques Barn located at 2 E. 28th Division Highway, Lititz, Pa. (the intersection of routes 501 and 22 behind the Brickerville Family Restaurant). The event will be held rain or shine. Come check out this fun and free outdoor pop-up antiques show. Stay for lunch at the Brickerville Family Restaurant and/or grab some ice cream at the Continued on page 7
A drumming Mickey Mouse with box, made by Linemar for Disney, working condition, is 11 inches high.
This advertising poster with Hudson Valley scene is for the Warrior Mower Co.
The livestock exposition poster for the Union Stock Yard 50th Anniversary Show, 1936, measures 25-by-19 inches.
This reverse painted mother of pearl sign with gold and silver leaf for W. H. Blake, dealer in agricultural implements and shelf hardware in Swanton, Vt., very good condition, measures 41-by-29 inches.
offerings. The Libbys loved rare, scarce and hard-to-find works from the pre-prohibition era, such as early Budweiser pieces. Advertising and country store collectors always have choice items to bid on at Rich Penn auctions. Display cases and cabinets, a mid-century beauty bar, soda fountain items, old candy jars, a round back classic restored Koken Barber chair and Coca-Cola material are all well represented. The Coca-Cola items include many rare
stock yards. Farmers had to show their livestock at expositions, fairs and stock shows. When it was time to take them to market, sellers went through commission agents at the stockyards. Featured in this auction is a great variety of early stockyard advertising and promotional materials, and just like Coca-Cola, that includes signs, posters, watch fobs, and publicity photos. During the mid-20th century, sign maker art changed in form, materials and size, with bigger being better. Porcelain and neon became popular among sign companies. Petroliana connoisseurs will find an impressive selection of porcelain and neon signs in this auction, but they’ll have other choices too: clocks, displays, oil bottles and carriers. Among the special rarities is a ca. 1920s Splitdorf Spark Plug Display in excellent condition. Ford lovers will appreciate the rare cast aluminum Ford Golden Jubilee Crest dealer wall sign. Pump collectors will love the restored Tokheim 850 clock face pump. Among the neons will be a rare mid-1950s Pontiac Strato Streak V8 in three colors and a Commander V8 neon from the same era by Studebaker. All are original, in Continued on page 6
Lesh Houck Sells Early Quilled Knife Sheath For $9,200 By Karl Pass Lesh Houck Auctioneers, based in Newport, Pa., conducted a sale on March 25 of a partial local estate that had three very rare 18th-century Native American Indian items. “We believe the knife sheath and shot pouch to be from the Northern Plains,” mentioned Sue Houck of Lesh Houck. The first rare item was an 18thcentury quilled double lane knife sheath. The second, an early quilled shot pouch. Authentic early Native American Indian artifacts in good surviving condition are simply rare regardless of form. The Continued on page 7
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . starting on page 2 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 4 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 5 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . starting on page 6 AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 6
FEATURE AUCTION: Gehman Auction’s May 8 Sale - Page 2
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