13th Annual Stockyard Collectors Club Meeting and Auction
Friday June 10, 2011
thru Saturday June 11, 2011
6:00PM
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Location: Stoney Creek Inn 101 18th Street, Moline, Illinois 61265
Our 13th Annual meeting and auction will be in Moline, IL.
Dinner will start at approximately 6:00 pm Friday, and the auction at 9:00 am Saturday morning, June 11th. Please mention the Stockyard Collectors to get a special room rate.
Our contact person is Kimberly Johnson ph: (309)743-0101.
Rates are $99 per night. For further information contact John Kalsem at (515)597-2610 or Charles Bloomberg at (660-341-5078) We are seeking consignments and the auction is open to the public. Consignments are limited to ten lots per person and must be approved.
The Stoney Creek Inn is adjacent to the John Deere Center, one of the most educational agriculture displays in the United States.
Early Consignments Include:
13th Annual Stockyards Auction, Sat. June 10, 2011
Stoney Creek Inn, Moline, IL. 9:00 am
Jon Bloomberg Auction Team
(1)…..The door push from the Stock Yard Inn. This is the best piece we have ever offered at auction. William Wood Prince decided to spruce up the Stock Yard Inn and had this door push custom made in Italy for the glass doors in the Sirloin Room in the late fourties.
(2)…..A luncheon menu from the Stock Yard Inn
(3)…..A group of 5 International Livestock Show pins from 1964 through 1970 and a stockyards keychain.
(4)….a photo “Cattle in the Pens: Chicago Union Stockyards.”
(5)…..a photo The Old Stone Gate: Entrance to the Yards circa 30’s
(6)…..a picture from the Stock Yard Inn.
(7)…..an ashtray from Lincoln Meat Co.
(8)…..a souvenir brick from the yards
(9)…..a pair of brass bookends from the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co….. Chicago
(10)…..”The Illustrated History of the Union Stock Yards” Chicago, ILL. The first edition of a classic book on the yards printed 1896. ex. Cond
(11)….”70 Years in the Chicago Stockyards” printed in 1968 by Theodore Herr; Vantage Press. The hardest of all stockyards books to find
(12)….A 1967 poster from the International Livestock Show 14”x22”
(13)….booklet about Royal Jupiter from the 1946 International Grand Champion, put out by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
(14)….Large picture of the “Beef Parade” of the 1941 International Livestock Show.
(15)….a pair of glasses from the Stockyard Inn.
(16)….a framed set of Hog Commission pins from National Stockyards.
(17)….10x12 framed picture of the Grand Champion of the 1959 International Livestock Show. Black Jewel (sold to Howard Johnson’s)
(18)….a 1900 Clay, Robinson & Company. Calendar. Sheep 1900.
(19)….a celluloid Fort Worth Live Stock Commission pin from Kansas City and an enamel Southwest American Live Stock Show members pin
(21)….a metal thermometer from the Southwest Live Stock Commission Co
(22)….two postcards from St. Joseph, Denver; two market postcards, and a Woodson Fennewald letterhead. Nat’l Stock Yards.
(23)….a mechanical trade card from the Clay Robinson Commission Co from 1909
(24)….a celluloid hone from National Live Stock Co. (Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis)
(25)….three commission books: Stewart, Harrison, White; Woodson-Fennewald; and National Live Stock Commission Co.
(26)….a framed card from the St. Louis Horse & Mule Commission Co.
(28)….International Horse Show and Livestock Exhibition poster from the sixties. Featuring Mel Tillis and other Western stars
(29)…..book. At the Sign of the Stock Yard Inn. By Alvin Sanders from the Breeders Gazette. Leather half binding. First edition from 1915.
(30)….calendar John Clay and company. Featuring the ship from 1938. “For over 50 years the ship of John Clay has weathered every storm” appr. 13x20”
(31)….twenty five misc. stockyard bullet pencils
(32)….ten Sioux City pencils
(33)….Sioux City employees badge
(34)….Cudahy tape measure (new in box)
(35)….big lot of old commission firm note books
(36)….two old books
(37)….Sioux City lock & key
(38)….old Sioux City Fitzsimmons pin back (1909-1910)
(39)….Sioux City paperweight
(40)….John Morrell new Nylint truck
(41)….an Illinois farm watch fob
(42)….a lithograph from the Nelson Morris horse hitch
(43)….A John Clay calendar
(44)….Heavy horse poster Belgian Stallion Magore circa 1917 12x18 from Ralph Hudson: Milton, WI.
(45)….three stereoviews from Chicago Union Stockyards
(46)….two Chicago bullet pencils, Producers & Evans, Snyder & Buel and a Fowler Bros. trade card
(47)….Clifton Commission Calender 44x12 bamboo Omaha
(48)…. letterhead Northwestern Live Stock Commission 1905 (Chi)
(49)….letterhead J.M. Robinson & Co. 1882 commision co.
(50)….Breeders Gazette Vol. 1 No.2 1881. the second Gazette ever published.
(51)….a group of 18 Breeders Gazettes from between 1892 and 1895; mostly 1893
(52)….an 1898 calendar from Rosenbaum & Co. Chicago approx 24x24, plus two Sioux City notebooks.
53)….Chicago stockyards (1941) (20x24) picture old frame
(54)….Clay, Robinson & Co. Dec. 13th 1917 original from a Breeders Gazette. Merry Monarch Grand Champion steer 1917 International
(55)….Early picture of the stone gate at the Chicago stockyards with a flock of sheep. (12x18). Framed
(56)….Clay, Robinson & Co. (1910) Original Color picture of a young lady. Livestock Commission at 10 markets. 11x14 frame
(57)….Conklin Bros Commission Co. August 1927 calendar. Montie & Louis picture. At Chicago, Sioux City, & So. St. Paul.
(58)….Breeders Gazette 1914 cover Picture of Percheron Team and Halter. 11x14 in a frame.
(59)….”The Cattleman” (Jan, 1958) Annual Stock Show Issue. Picture of a 19 yr. old Sue Secondino and her 1957 International Grand Champion Steer. A picture of John F. Mommsen & Sons champion carlot angus steers. Karl & Jack Hoffman w/ Hereford reserve.
(60)….Abe Burnett & Co calendar Mar. 1922 Chicago depicts a girl on front and markets on back.
(61)….Picture (9x11) Horse Market Union Stockyards Chicago Picture of seven draft horses with three handlers.
(62)….Steele Siman & Co. calendar 1969
(63)….Bennet Commission Co. paper hat from So. St. Paul stockyards
(64)….booklet: The South St. Paul Stockyards “The Ending of an Era”
(65)….Collection of memorabilia for South St. Paul Stockyards including token, checks, pictures.
(66)….Scott Commission Co. tin sign from Sioux City
(67)….Sioux City Centennial book
(68)….a bottle of “Black Bull” scotch whiskey 5”x 2 1/2” bottle
(69)….Centennial Sioux City Belt buckle
(70)….pocket mirror from Chicago; exchange building view John Wood Livestock Commission (round)
(71)….a Clay Robinson flat pencil
(72)….a ribbon and celluloid piece from the International Livestock Show with Canada on the pin from 1941
(73)….John Clay picture 12 x 14”; 1912 showing George Lane from Calgary, Canada and his market topping stock
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