Rockville, Indiana on Saturday, May 5, 2012 – 9:00 a.m.

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500+ Advertising Signs (Including 200 thermometers & 50 clocks)

We will offer at public auction the 40 year collection of advertising, collectibles, memorabilia, glassware and primitives owned by Darrell Overpeck, all moved for your comfort and convenience to the Parke County Fairgrounds, one (1) mile north of Rockville on U.S. 41.  Rockville is located in West Central Indiana approximately 20 miles from the Illinois line at the intersection of U.S. 36 and U.S. 41.  In addition and held in conjunction with Overpeck Collection of sign and advertising lotted auction (same date, time & location), we will offer the following:

Auctioneer's Note:  We will be running 2 rings all day and a 3^rd part of the day

• Ring #1 will offer approximately 500 lot numbered advertising signs & items from a seated gallery.
• Ring #2 will offer antiques, collectibles, glassware & memorabilia, also from a seated gallery.
• Ring #3 (a portion of the day) will offer small showcase items.

Following is the list of items that will be sold by lot number in Ring #1:

Ring #2 and Ring #3 will include the following:

Advertising:

Cooper Tire-Armored Cord ashtray; Firestone Tire ashtrays; General Motors copper ashtray; Marathon alum. ice cream scoop; Planter's Mr. Peanut cast iron bank & bowls; Calumet Baking Powder Reliable Recipes c. 1922; store display jars (Gordon's, Twix, Little Debbie, Goodies, Seyfert's , Planter's jar w/box); Coca Cola straw jar; M & M music box tin; Campbell Soup kids salt & pepper; Vess Beverage salt & pepper; Tappan salt & pepper; many root beer mugs including A & W, Frostie & Mason Root Beer ; Mason Root Beer float glasses set (4); old Borden milk box; wire gal. milk carriers; metal soft drink carriers incl. Pepsi, Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper, 7Up & Royal Crown; Coca Cola ice pick; West Frankfort Ice Co. ice pick; Howes Potato Chip canister; Cleveland Hatchery (Dana, Indiana) chicken catcher; McPherson State Bank wood servers (1865-1955); Johnson Shell-West Lebanon ashtray; Indiana State Bank of Terre Haute keg bank & metal bank; Chicago Motor Club brass ashtray; Russellville Stone Co. clipboard calendar; Lucky Strike & Chesterfield framed ads; Big Boy doll banks; Lucky Strike metal cigarette box; old 5 gal oil cans incl. Wolfe Head Oil, Marathon & Mobil Oil; Salem ashtrays; Producers milk bottle caps; old Camel lighter; Dana Masonic Lodge 100^th Anniversary ashtray; pocket knives incl. Remington guns, Jacques seeds; Pfister hybrids, Natinal Life, and others.

Collectibles – Primitives – Books:

Maytag fuel mixing can (8" tall); Boye Needle Co. – needle shuttle 1925; The Lightening Calculator Co. vintage adding machine & stylus w/paperwork; Farm Master egg scale; Blue Grass scale (1906); Crystal glass coffee grinder (Arcade #3); Frederic Remington bronze repro. sculpture "The Bronco Buster" (40/100 – 22 1/1" tall); Frederick Remington bronz repro sculpture ""Trooper of the Plains" (21" tall); butter churns incl. quart & Dazey churns #20, #30, #40, #60, #80 and others; many milk & cream bottles incl. Ruff's Dairy, Purity Milk Co., Danville Producers Dairy, Happy Valley Farms, Ballard's milk, Meadow Gold, Casassa's Dairy Farm (Brazil, Ind.—1/2 pt.), Gail Borden,  Tom Houdes, Brook Hills & others; (2) cream top dippers; pickle jars; many stoneware crocks, jugs & jars; Imperial coffee mill; milk carriers, egg baskets, old Way-Rite scale; old microphone; old Kaye's oil can; New Haven mantel clock; sleigh bells (very nice set); 1¢ & 5¢ gumball machines;  qt. oil bottles & spouts by Standard Oil, Mobil, Marquette Mgf., The Master Mfg. Handy Oiler—Danville, Indiana; (3) Maytag grease & lube (new cans); Maytag wrenches; mess kits & canteen; porcelain spittoon; ice order cards; Humpty Dumpty egg carrier (Pat. 1905); Maytag model & oil cans; Texaco oil can w/tube; cast iron door stops; old cast iron dog nutcracker; Minneapolis thermostat & clock; old box cameras (Ansco Craftsman & Brownie No. 2A); Mergott Jem Jr. 120 Box Camera; many old Indiana license plates (1920-s—1980's); moth gas vaporizer; Sand's level Clinton, Ind.; Tom Sawyer harmonica in box; Howdy Doody night light; Cracker Jack whistle; Hoosier cabinet condiment jars; Star Mfg. mousetraps (new—Dana, Indiana); Hinckley & Schmidt Water Co. 5 gal jug (Ind. Glass); Rolls razor in box; Hoover oiler in box; "Old Judge" coffee jar; Coca Cola bottles, Rockville & Terre Haute; "Clinton Beverages" Clinton, Ind.; Arthur Anderson Ins. file box; oxen yoke; old saw & tool boxes; old wood block planes; vintage hat forms incl. Soter Bros; (2) old swords; walking sticks; advert. yard sticks; wooden water pail; DuPont exp. box; "Our American Poets" picture; athletic club pennants; potato sacks; old hat pins; political buttons; lighters, knives; carbide lamp; Elvis magazines; many needlework pcs. (doilies, linens, etc); silver Christmas dated bells; Pez candy dispensers (new); Occupied Japan cigarette & ashtray set; leaded lamp shades; several mortars and pestles; Gamewell fire box, & more.  Old books:  "Here Is Your War" Peoples Book Club Edition by Ernie Pyle, "Last Chapter" First Printing by Ernie Pyle, "Brave Men" by Ernie Pyle, "Lovey Mary" (1903) by Alice Hegan Rice, "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (1901) by Alice Caldwell Hegen, "Twin Sombreros" by Zane Grey, "Will Rogers" bio (1935--5¢), "Gene Autry and Arapaho War Drums", "Red Ryder and the Adventure at Chimney Rock", "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (1900 gift), "Little Leather Library Books" (set of 7), "The Rumford Complete Cookbook" (1908), "Evangeline" by Longfellow (1901 gift), and more.

Toys:

"Adams Motor Grader" by Model Toys (25"); "Wild Animal Circus Semi" by Buddy L (25")' "Power Grader" by Marx; "Texaco" oil tanker by Buddy L; Air Force truck by Buddy L; "Texaco Fire Chier" truck by AMF; (2) Nylint dump trucks; Structo car hauler semi; "76 Unocal" semi by Ertl; Structo cement mixer; Maytag model trucks; "NAPA Automotive Parts" Nylint; "U-Haul" pickup truck & trailers; Tonka ladder fire truck; other trucks & cars; "" toy cast stove; toy phone by N.N. Hill Brass Co. (since 1889); "Wurlitzer Juke Box" radio; Barbie roller skates (girl's size 12); Jeff Gordon bobble head (NIB); Jeff Gordon "DuPont #24" model in DuPont can (NIB); lunch boxes "Johnny Lightning" & "Gentle Ben" w/thermos'; (13) "The Magic Phono & Record" setschild's porc. tea set; many toy airplanes; "Marksman" B.B. pistol (nice); "Crossman" pump air pistol; doll dresser & mirror; SnowWhite toy kitchen set; metal rocking doll cradle; doll clothes chest; Radio Flyer wagon; and more.

Glassware:

Paper wts., incl. Maude & Bob St. Clair ('74, '75, '76), Joe Rice (1994), Tom St. Clair & others;  Occupied Japan figures (6" T.); McCoy; Fiesta; Flow Blue pitcher; (3) ptd./gilded Limoges plates by Belle Lund (1909); R.S. Prussia, Higgins & Seiter gilded plates; porcelain figures; Nippon condiment set; (6) depression green juice glasses & carrier; Roseville rose bowl (842-7"); Fenton; Royal Doulton (1949); pitchers & juice glasses; Homer Laughlin "Virginia Rose" dinner service (partial set); & more.

Furniture—Miscellaneous:

Leaded glass hanging lamp; old Crosley console radio; 3/4 antique bedstead; spindle back cane bottom chairs; 5 pc. metal patio set w/glider & rockers; 6 pc. wrought iron glass top patio set; leaded stain glass hanging; Lane cedar chest; glass top coffee table; telephone chair; Lazy "S" Ranch coat rack (c. 1955); alum. cot; "Fitness Flyer" swing exercise machine; lava lamp; ptd. roses converted/elect. oil lamp; ice cream chair; model ships; framed Currier & Ives prints; sundial; (4) framed "Teschie" drawings of Parke County; misc. bookends; old Duncan parking meter; (2) oils by Mary Carmichael (Rockville, Ind.) "Roses of Happiness" & Flower of Happiness"; many Christmas decorations; old fishing items; (2) "National—Official Scout Axe" microscope 50 x 1200 w/labs; Murray 24" girl's bike "Cruiser Series" w/frt. basket; Murray 24" boy's bike "Cruiser Series" Westpoint; and more.

Darrell Overpeck, Owner

TERMS: Cash or bankable check with photo ID.  No out-of state checks accepted for payment without current bank letter guaranteeing funds. 

CONDITIONS: Merchandise sells AS IS/WHERE IS. 

Come early or attend the preview Friday evening, May 4^th from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. to view offering.