SPECIALTY AUCTION OF ARTIFACTS, OLD TOYS, PRIMITIVES, ADV. AND SPECIALTY ANTIQUES

The following items will be sold at the Millbrook Community Center Building in Laura, IL (The building is located just off of Rt. 78 in the NE edge of Laura)

NOTE: This auction will be conducted gallery style. Items, including the artifacts, will be picked up randomly and sold to keep a variety selling at all times. Plan to attend on time so you don’t miss your particular item. This is the first sale of more to come. See pictures online at www.folgerauction.com and more on our FACEBOOK page. Doors will open at 9 a.m. sale day.

ARTIFACTS: 100 lots of artifacts of a variety of sizes (½” to 5 ¾”) and types—many Dovetails, Harden Dalton Beavertail, knives, scrapers, drills, etc.  A few highlights are a nice fish hook, 3 3/4 “ turkey tail, 4” Harden, 2 ¾” and 3 ½” Daltons, Apple Creek, 4”Beavertail, Effigies, 2 ½” Clovis, Buffalo, tray 14 points, trays of 15 points, 5 ¼” knife, 3” Smiths, 3 ¾” North blade or Snyder pre-form, 5” Thiebe, 3 ½” spear point, 2 ½” and 3 ½” and other Snyders, all types of perfect Dovetails, 5 ¾” scraper, 3 ½” Adena Dickson, tray of 17 pints from Union County, IL, tray of 5 scrapers, 3” and 3 ½” and other Adenas, many other nice artifacts.

ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES: 1800’s Bishop Hill chest/desk owned by orig. founding minister Jonas Olson (the desk is inscribed and marked with his picture)—R.A. Moffett’s (Knoxville, IL) orig. Dr’s leather bag full of equipment and instruments--Central Pacific RR brass urinal bucket w/handle and inscribed instructions—Immigrant’s trunk marked FGGL Henry Co. Cambridge, North Americ, IL—old metal trunk marked Dept. of Street Cleaning--old metal horse marked Dempster 586—Immigrant and other trunks of different sizes and types (Bishop Hill area)—old Adv. boxes—old banner (Mazda 20W bulb)—nice old End of the Trail picture and other old native pictures—military old hats—blacksmith tools—very old carpenter’s box—Cow bells, draw knife, very old hand mixers, potato mashers, prim. nail trimmers and tools—Humpty Dumpty and other wooden egg crates—New Ball bull nose ringer—Keen kutter sausage stuffer—very prim and odd iron nut cracker—iron Implement tools—odd cherry pitter—carnival canes—Red Wing Art Pottery piece—Sleepy Eye (Monmouth, IL) pieces, mostly convention pieces—RCA Victor model 9JY record player—milk stool—old Pabst opener—old pocket knives—horn rattle—birch canoe—4 gallon Redwing crock w/handles—2 gallon Lowell Pottery Co. (Tonica, IL)—tester kit in box w/tubes—Frank Siddalls 7 cent soap box—1881 Wait Main Challenger planter box—strap of sleigh bells—very lg. crock bowl and other crocks—some old Costume jewelry and smalls--tin Cherub box and wood piece--#80 Dazey churn—gr. and brass coffee grinder—sugar buckets—Israel Minora--Campbell Coffee tin (Bloomington, IL)—Galesburg Coal Bucket adv. little bucket and fan—Eddie Seaman Maquon, IL toothpick holder—J.M. Shipley Galesburg Thomson Phosphate ruler—Green Watch Co. wooden storage box--Galesburg “Book Case” adv. fan—AS & W Co. letter opener—Blazier & Kimble (Hampshire, IL) pottery adv. rolling pin—very nice Mendini Pocket Trumpet—Tromba Trumpet (plastic, but not a toy)—Beautiful Selmer #1430LP clarinet—all instruments if perfect cond. and in cases—Meridian 3 wheel bike w/basket—very prim. ox yolks—tin bin—Brass counter Hardware & Co. scale—lg. broad head axe—cornbread iron pan—Moorman tiny skillet—old oil can w/spout—1913 and 16 U of I College of Medicine class pics—Belmont , pocket and other scales—printers drawers--Woodrow Wilson Presidential greeting lg. picture/cert.—bullet pencils, token, milk caps and other adv.—primitive Jersey red coffee bin

TOYS, BANKS, ETC: “Jolly Negro Bank” orig.—tin Marx string monkey—tin race bike friction toy—tin Wells Fargo town—old cast iron fire engine—cast Professor Pug Frogs Great Bicycle Feat bank—other banks--cast Army men, horse and fire engine set, wagon, animals and other toys—Wyandot metal old car—plastic Police bike and other plastic cycles—tin race Friction toy bike—very old Friction tin car--plastic wind up motorcycle—Cast iron Washington train cars—old clay marbles—Salesman Sample? Croquet set—very old Teddy Bear—old checkers and games—prim. spelling board—toy spurs—Train Master electric train transformer—Johnny Red Civil War lg. toy Cannon (was NB but box is destroyed, book and balls)—old cap pistol w/holster--very old tin Oriental man w/scythe—coll. of .15 Classic Illus. comics—Lionel Edison Inventor’s Series elect. lamp kit w/orig. box—old train pieces—misc. toys.

JOEL BJORLING—SELLER

FOLGER’S AUCTION SERVICE, INC.—WILLIAMSFIELD, IL 

(JIM FOLGER AND JIM GIBBS—AUCTIONEERS)

Ph. 309-368-6314 or 309-337-2150 

Email: cat.2009@hotmail.com 

Cash, check or credit card.