Catalogued Antique Auction-Session One 2012-09-28 Auction - 367 Price Results - Horst Auction Center in PA - Page 9
Revolutionary war era British officer’s gorget2 18th century trade axesUnited States infantry officer’s sword & scabbard
Done
Ephrata, PA, United States
Auction Details

Catalogued Antique Auction-Session One

Friday Session - The collection of Anthony L. Tafel - Mr. Tafel is the author of "Everyday Artifacts: America 1750-1850." This auction will feature a majority of the items photographed and described in his book. The collection emphasizes artifacts of early American everyday life that were useful for surveying land, building log homes, farming the land, traveling, blacksmithing, and cabinetmaking. The session also includes a collection of tin and cast iron toys and banks. Saturday Session - The collections of Elsie Roth & others - Auction to include Period & Paint Decorated Furniture; Oriental Rugs; Disc Music Boxes; Artwork; Folk Art Oil Portraits; Miniature Portraits; Lighting Devices; Quilts; Coverlets; Decorated Hand Towels; Lehnware Seed Chest & Two Turnings; Simmons Cane; Weathervanes; Carved Birds; Duck & Owl Decoys; Cobalt Decorated Stoneware; Pewter; Butter Prints; Baskets; Early China & Glassware
SOLD
Wooden shipwright’s stock brace: ca. 1740-1800s; original red stained set-up for wooden socket shaped bits having been converted with a later model brass push-button chuck, 20 ½”;
0193: Wooden shipwright’s stock braceEst. $100-$150
SOLD
3 wooden planes: ca. 1740-1800s; Dutch made 18th century hollow plane with highly carved side/shoulder with pinwheel & frond design, 11 ¼”; homemade rabbet plane with owner initials carved on side, 10 ¼”;
0194: 3 wooden planesEst. $100-$150
SOLD
2 hand wrought iron braces: ca. 1770-1830; large sweep model with lantern head/knurl and thumb screw chuck, 13 ½”; thumbscrew chuck with head/knurl repaired using 1837 large cent as washer, 10 ½”;
0195: 2 hand wrought iron bracesEst. $50-$100
SOLD
10 cabinet shop related items: ca. 1700-1800s; oak notched bench side rest with diamond cut-out; 2 cooper’s stave gauges with calibration; 2 wooden spoke shaves including 1 with ivory/bone sole plate; 2 oil stones including 1
0196: 10 cabinet shop related itemsEst. $50-$100
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2 hand wrought edge tools: ca. 1700-1800s; 12” cooper’s heading shave with hickory handles signed “E.S. Trepert” (Eastern PA), 20”w; all iron slick with L-shaped handle, 3”x 20 ½”;
0197: 2 hand wrought edge toolsEst. $50-$100
SOLD
8 various tools: ca. 1700-1800s; hand wrought race knife with folding blade and walnut handle; 5 various T-handle gimlets; 2 screw threading planes including 1 owner signed “G.P. Campbell”;
0198: 8 various toolsEst. $30-$70
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2 wooden grooving planes: ca. 1700-1800s; wedge arm plow plane signed “E. Gere” (Susquehanna Co., PA) with brass depth stop and documentation letter from Emil Pollak concerning maker; 1807 J. Stiles panel grooving;
0199: 2 wooden grooving planesEst. $100-$150
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2 wooden molding planes: ca. 1700s; 4 ½” cherry crown molder with 3 ¾” iron, handle, tow hole drilled in front and stamped “A. Low” on tail, 13”; 1 ½” ogee with chamfered shoulders, 10”;
0200: 2 wooden molding planesEst. $100-$200
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3 graduated wooden screw threading blocks: ca. 1700-1800s; ¾” threading block with ram’s horn wrought iron adjustment; 1 ¼” block with wooden threaded bolts and matching iron threading dye; large 2 ½” block with wooden nut stops
0202: 3 graduated wooden screw threading blocksEst. $75-$150
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6 hand wrought tools: ca. 1700-1800s; plane maker’s float/rasp; 2 drift pins including 1 diamond top; T-handeled reamer with tapered square shank; branding iron IV with ringed handle; T-auger with early twist bit;
0203: 6 hand wrought toolsEst. $75-$150
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3 gentleman’s walking sticks: ca. 1700-1800s; 18th century silver capped with boxwood stick; early 19th century bamboo shaped hickory with ivory or whale bone knob; 19th century goat horn tipped knob on box wood stick;
0204: 3 gentleman’s walking sticksEst. $75-$100
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Cabinet maker’s key hole saw: ca. 1800-40; 6 ½” narrow blade with fishtail open grip cherry handle, 10”;
0205: Cabinet maker’s key hole sawEst. $75-$150
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Cabinet maker’s copper glue pot: ca. 1800-40; dovetailed construction on outer and inner kettles both with wire handles hung from copper handle brackets, 9”d, 7”h;
0206: Cabinet maker’s copper glue potEst. $50-$100
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Copper tea kettle with bird’s neck spout: ca. 1700s; unsigned dovetailed construction kettle with broad loose copper handle and copper lid with brass knob, 13”x 12”;
0207: Copper tea kettle with bird’s neck spoutEst. $300-$500
SOLD
Hand wrought block knife: ca. 1700s; long form with hook to clip to stump and original handle; 14” edge, 36” overall;
0208: Hand wrought block knifeEst. $75-$150
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2 early hand tools: ca. 1700-1800s; homemade walnut stock brace with turned walnut knurl, pewter cap with chuck simple slide through design and note on cap reading “Lent to Hammond House Museum” June 16, 1935,
0209: 2 early hand toolsEst. $50-$100
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2 cooper’s tools: ca. 1700s; cherry sun-topping plane with hand wrought 2”w iron from old file, 10”; hand wrought head key (screw into cask head and drawn into groove), 20”;
0210: 2 cooper’s toolsEst. $75-$150
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Cabinet maker’s four frame fellow saw: ca. 1740-60; with top and bottom shaped rails made of figured cherry and rails of chamfered cherry with blade 2” broad attached by hand wrought clips and tension bolt, 38”x 16”;
0211: Cabinet maker’s four frame fellow sawEst. $400-$600
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Framed pit saw: ca. 1740-60; with top and lower rails having turned hardwood grasp handles and 3 ¾”w blade with hand wrought hardware and ram’s horn tension nut, 58”x 17”;
0212: Framed pit sawEst. $300-$500
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Hand wrought open pit saw: ca. 1790; large blade with down slope teeth, hand wrought T-handle and tapered 9 ½”- 3 ½”w blade, 85” overall;
0213: Hand wrought open pit sawEst. $75-$150
SOLD
Hand wrought “up-down” mill saw: ca. 1700s; two upper and lower holes to mount into mill saw frame in large wide tooth construction, 78”;
0214: Hand wrought “up-down” mill sawEst. $100-$200
SOLD
Wooden cider press screw: ca. 1800s; hand cut, 66”;
0215: Wooden cider press screwEst. $50-$75
SOLD
Small millstone: ca. 1830; with hand cut groves, 20”d;
0216: Small millstoneEst. $100-$300