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Antiques & Collectibles

Auction Site:
2400 N Nebraska Ave - York, NE
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 10:02

NICE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUES, COLLECTIBLES AND MEMORABILIA!

 

Owner:  Kevin Menefee

Auction Details

SPECIAL: 

  • Marble-topped pharmacist scale, with complete brass weight sets

Military, Historical, Other Memorabilia:

  • WWI: song and prayer books, souvenir postcards and handkerchiefs from France, large " liberty map" and index of the New Europe, Collier's Photographic History, portrait of Pershing, Allies skittles game board, very large world war savings bonds poster, lots of magazine ads, sheet music, newspapers and clippings, more
  • WWII: newspapers and clippings, ration books, postcards and souvenirs, war atlases, song and joke books, Life magazines, recruiting ads, Post covers, sheet music, scrapbooks, more
  • Pillows and pillow covers from Army, Navy, Air Force bases
  • Post WWII: Desert Storm memorial plate, Iraqi 52 Most Wanted playing card deck, unopened, Vietnam Life magazines, Mao cap and little red book (damaged)
  • Cast aluminum field cook set
  • Lindbergh: framed pillow cover, medallions, all kinds of magazines, newspaper clippings, pictures, books ("We"; "The Lone Eagle"; more), sheet music, other souvenirs
  • Presidents:  McKinley, Coolidge, Hoover, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR – mostly newpaper clippings, small prints, commemorative plates
  • Classic schoolhouse George Washington portrait
  • Kennedy Memorabilia:  JFK-Bobby-Jackie newspaper & clippings, Life and Post magazines, Warren report, “The Torch is Passed”, memorial plate
  • British Royals Memorabilia:  Books, magazines, clippings of the Queen, Diane, etc.
  • Huskers: Lots of newspapers, magazines, & clippings: Devaney, Osborne, etc. including Championship years, pop bottles, cups, mugs, hankies, variety of misc. souvenirs

PAPER / EPHEMERA:

  • Christmas, Easter, New Years, Mother's Day, Birthday, other holidays: baggies full of  beautiful vintage cards and booklets, greeting cards, calling cards, embossed cards, congratulations, love, remembrance, salesman's sampler of calling cards
  • Christmas cards (couple boxes, unused), gift wrap, sheet music & carols, children’s Christmas books, Santa decorations, Noma lights, Shiny Brite ornaments
  • Valentines, incl. accordion & folding German valentines
  • Religious books & booklets, Testaments, prayer books, Bible verse cards
  • School documents - Beautiful Rewards of Merit
  • Advertising: full & half-page newspaper ads from 1800s-1940s; magazines and ads from 1900-1950s, including Post, Needlecraft, Cappers Farmer, Household, McCalls, Farmer's Wife, Modern Priscilla, Woman's Home Companion; Coca-Cola ads
  • Music: stacks of sheet music from late 1800s - 1940s
  • Nebraska memorabilia (mostly newspapers & clippings): Centennial, natural disasters, Starkweather, Joubert, sheet music
  • Small poem & story books, autograph books
  • Scrap books full of old magazine clippings & illustrations
  • Calendars, paper-mache calendar backs
  • Post card albums
  • Yard-long photos
  • Dionne Quints prints & clippings
  • Shirly Temple prints & blue-glass breakfast set
  • Black Americana: Cream of Wheat and other ads, prints, sheet music, MLK hand fan
  • 1937 Rebekah Lodge (Odd Fellows) Charge Book, 1929 New Ritual Order of the Eastern Star, "Hell's Angels" promo book of 1930 Howard Hughes movie, reprints of Russian Revolutionary Charity Posters

VINTAGE BOOKS:

  • Children's Books: Linen, soft, & hardcover books - nursery rhymes, Mother Goose
  • Coloring books, primers/readers, school books, religious books, German books, jigsaw puzzles
  • Child Welfare Manual (1916), Home Kindergarten Manual (1921), Annual Cyclopedia (1882-86), Draper’s Self-Culture (1907), People’s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1883), The People’s Home Library (1910), Ridpath’s History of the World (1907), many others
  • Medical manuals & encyclopedias, many with color fold-outs: Domestic medical Practice (1926), Library of Health (1916)
  • Lots of popular novels & romances from early 1900s

PRINTS & PICTURES:

  • Framed and unframed, all kinds of subjects - lots of children & religious, some landscape, portraits, etc.
  • Currier & Ives prints from old calendars
  • Large Norman Rockwell frameable prints, dogs playing poker, more
  • Vintage studio photos - portraits, families, children

HOUSEHOLD:

  • Numerous crock bowls and pitchers, blue, brown, gray, some banded, some spongeware; small crockery pitchers
  • Lots of crocks and crock jugs of all sizes, including Redwing, Western, others
  • Glass and wooden rolling pins
  • Tinware
  • Ironware - small kettles, trivets
  • Many kerosene lamps, including Washington Drape, Waterfall, Princess Feather; some with porcelain bases; finger lamps, lamp brackets and mirrors; lamp parts chimneys
  • Silver and silver plate, including sugar and cream set and cruet set
  • Canning jars, including green and blue, zinc and baled lids
  • Apothecary bottles, small medicine bottles of all kinds
  • Tin spice jar set
  • Kitchen tools and implements
  • Carved wooden bowls
  • Folk-art canister set
  • Miscellaneous jars, milk bottles
  • Glass paperweights
  • Coffee grinder
  • Cast-iron bookends

CHILDREN’S:

  • Crockery baby plates
  • Tiny doll tea sets
  • Variety of toys & games
  • Collector's plates (IOB, flawless): Boys Will Be Boys (by Jim Daly), Danbury - set of 8
  • Lovable Teddies (by Michael Hague), Hamilton - set of 8
  • Children's/doll size chairs

TOOLS & PRIMITIVES:

  • Lanterns & lantern bases
  • Galvanized wash-tubs & buckets
  • Wood boxes & crates; round wood boxes
  • Enamelware of all kinds
  • Cast-iron skillets
  • Kraut-cutter
  • Washboard
  • Wooden rotary churn
  • Hay-rake, scythes, wood-handled spades, bucksaw, hay saw
  • Wooden hand tools - saws, levels, block planes
  • Ice-skates & snow-shoes
  • Wooden pulleys
  • Metal gas cans
  • Scales & brass scales, brass screwdrivers, small oil cans
  • Wrenches - many wood-handled monkey wrenches, boxes of plain box-end, open-ended
  • Alleged Model A or Model T wrench

GLASSWARE:

  • Glass compotes, incl. pair with Westward Ho! lids
  • Oyster-milk dishes
  • Small milk-glass dishes with animal lids
  • Hens, roosters, ducks etc. on nests
  • pink Depression cracker jars
  • Ornamental glass lamp shades
  • Goofus glass
  • Small Czech-glass compote with lid
  • Lots of carnival glass – bowls, plates, all kinds
  • Crystal / lead crystal / pressed glass

NEEDLEWORK / FANCYWORK:

  • 4 large tubs full of pillowcases, dresser scarves, dresser sets, tea towels (incl. some Days of the Week sets), full-size table cloths, card-table cloths, lace, bed sheets, all kinds of crochet & doilies - lots of embroidery, cross-stitch, tatting, crochet.  Some very elaborate work, most of it flawless; Czech tapestries, samplers, more
  • Quilts, comforters, baby blankets
  • Quilting & embroidery pattern books

PORCELAIN & CHINA:

  • 12-place set of china - "Old English" pattern, Johnson Bros., England (some missing pieces)
  • Odds & ends of small porcelain, incl. Nippon, Copley, Germany, Prussia, RS, Leuchtenberg,
  • Austria, Majolica
  • Variety of plates, keyhole plates, & bowls - some Bavaria, Germany, etc.
  • Misc pieces, Cambridge Iris pattern
  • Haeger pottery

SMALL FURNITURE:

  • Many old pictures, prints, and frames, including oval bubble glass pictures, some massive frames with portraits, religious, children, landscapes, etc.
  • Many ornate mirrors, different shapes and sizes
  • Several press-back chairs
  • Couple small rockers
  • Couple small Eastlake parlor chairs (armless)
  • Eastlake side-table, very nice
  • Couple small side-tables
  • Large wicker sewing baskets
  • Floor lamp bases
  • Mantle clocks & clock shelves
  • Trunks

MISCELLANEOUS:

  • Some railroad memorabilia, mostly Burlington, including large wall map of BN routes
  • Collection of RR tie date-nails
  • Cigar boxes full of stamps, old stamp-collecting journals, USPS stamp booklets
  • Dozens of tin types
  • Wood-burned boxes & plaques
  • Stereoscopes and cards
  • Hand fans
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ASSISTIVE EQUIPMENT:

  • Like New - power recliner / lift-chair
Auctioneers Comments

Kevin has acquired this nice collection of antiques & collectibles over the years and has commissioned us to sell to the highest bidder.  Plan to attend and buy the auction way.  Direct all inquiries to the auctioneer.

Auction Terms

Cash or check with proper ID.  VISA/MC/Discover/AmEx accepted – a 3.75% surcharge will be added to the total purchase for all credit/debit card transactions.  Information in this brochure has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable although its accuracy cannot be guaranteed by the sellers or auctioneer.  We urge prospective buyers to inspect and rely on their own conclusions.  Any announcements made day of auction take precedence over any printed material.

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