Catalogued Antique Auction-Session One 2012-09-28 Auction - 367 Price Results - Horst Auction Center in PA - Page 2
Revolutionary war era British officer’s gorget2 18th century trade axesUnited States infantry officer’s sword & scabbard
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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
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Hand wrought twibil: ca. 1780; American form struck with twin face and shielded handle, 21” across top;
0025: Hand wrought twibilEst. $150-$200
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2 hand wrought mortise axes: ca. 1780-1840; Lancaster Co. single bit axe with double stamping by Valentine Hofman (maker) and G. Sener (re-edged); the second unsigned and dated 1839 with single edge;
0026: 2 hand wrought mortise axesEst. $100-$200
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5 hand wrought carpenter’s tools: ca. 1700s; froe crafted from old file; 1 twisted shell T-hand auger and 2 shell nose T-hand augers; wrought iron brace with fixed platelayer tip;
0027: 5 hand wrought carpenter’s toolsEst. $50-$75
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4 assorted carpenter’s tools: ca. 1750-1810; signed adze with octagon full poll; unusual brace handled claw hammer; broad tail hewing hatchet; make-do nail pouch made from old leather boot;
0028: 4 assorted carpenter’s toolsEst. $75-$100
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Double bit posthole axe: ca. 1790-1820; triple signed Lancaster Co. axe with illegible maker’s mark and re-edged by C. Silvius and D. Hofman;
0029: Double bit posthole axeEst. $75-$150
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2 hand wrought side broad axes: ca. 1760-1820; modified form goosewing axe initialed “I.B.”, 14” edge; primitive form with poorly lapped hardened steel, 14” edge;
0030: 2 hand wrought side broad axesEst. $50-$100
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3 hand wrought hatchets: ca. 1730-1800; relic frontier axe; G. Rohr hewing hatchet with raised weld; unsigned hewing hatchet;
0031: 3 hand wrought hatchetsEst. $50-$75
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Pennsylvania hand wrought goosewing axe: ca. 1770-1820; triple stamped H. Stahler in eastern Pennsylvania form with double raised weld, 14” edge;
0032: Pennsylvania hand wrought goosewing axeEst. $300-$500
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2 continental hewing axes: ca. 1680-1780; early form with substantial tool decoration including stars around outer edges, 11” edge; primitive Germanic form with cross and some tool decoration, 16” edge;
0033: 2 continental hewing axesEst. $200-$300
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2 hand wrought log hewing tools: ca. 1700s; unsigned Pennsylvania pattern hewing/side broad axe with extra-large rounded shoulders, 15 ½” edge; swing arm log dog, 26 ½”;
0034: 2 hand wrought log hewing toolsEst. $75-$100
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3 early tools: ca. 1780-1810; 2 builder’s race knives used in scribing numbers on framing timbers, 1 with twisted wrought iron handle; T-handle bed bolt screwdriver;
0035: 3 early toolsEst. $150-$300
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Group of hand wrought tools & primitives: ca. 1790-1840; small bench top anvil; peg cutter for timber framing pegs signed H.M. Buller; pair of ox shoes;
0036: Group of hand wrought tools & primitivesEst. $75-$100
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2 early tools: ca. 1780-1810; wooden shipwright’s sweep stock brace with wooden housed bit, 22”; 1804 hand wrought signed drawknife, 13 ½”;
0037: 2 early toolsEst. $60-$100
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2 hand wrought edge tools: ca. 1730-1840; early long billed blocking axe with squared back eye, 8”x 11”; long billed mortise chisel axe, 2 ¼”x 19”;
0038: 2 hand wrought edge toolsEst. $100-$150
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2 PA hand wrought hewing axes: ca. 1770-1820; Hoffman (Lancaster Co.) axe with raised brace weld, 13” edge; unsigned axe with zig-zag and dot tool decoration, 13 ½” edge;
0039: 2 PA hand wrought hewing axesEst. $75-$150
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Wood carving of pit saw in use: ca. 1930; with man on high brace and bridge having both men dressed in medieval garb and using a four frame pit saw, 20”x 16”;
0040: Wood carving of pit saw in useEst. $100-$250
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Hand wrought goosewing hewing axe: ca. 1700s; early form with long slope forward wing and squared striking pad on outside shoulder of eye, 17 ½” edge;
0041: Hand wrought goosewing hewing axeEst. $250-$300
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Pennsylvania hand wrought hewing axe: ca. 1760; traditional PA form with braced weld, heart form trade stamp and initialed “I.B.”, 11 ½” edge;
0042: Pennsylvania hand wrought hewing axeEst. $75-$150
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Wrought iron rush lamp: ca. 1740-1800; with twisted post and brace topped diamond style weight on three large pad feet, 8”;
0043: Wrought iron rush lampEst. $250-$500
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3 early lighting devices: ca. 1750-1820; 2 wrought hog scraper candlesticks with push levers, 1 signed Turner and 1 signed Sill; wrought iron hanging fat lamp;
0044: 3 early lighting devicesEst. $75-$100
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5 fireplace related tools: ca. 1780-1850; rare wooden spill plane; tin tubular spill stand; 3 hand wrought coal/ember shovels with 1 having a diamond top;
0045: 5 fireplace related toolsEst. $100-$200
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Hand wrought bar & hook adjustable candlestand: ca. 1780; made from blacksmith helper with four pad foot wrought iron base and wood added to the top to make a candlestand;
0046: Hand wrought bar & hook adjustable candlestandEst. $300-$500
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2 wooden based wrought iron push up lamps: ca. 1760; spiral type wrought iron with 1 adapted for use with electric candle, 8” & 9”;
0047: 2 wooden based wrought iron push up lampsEst. $150-$300
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2 tin lighting accessories: ca. 1800-50; 12 hole candle mold with 2 handles, 11”h; tubular hanging candle box with 4 old candles, 13 ½”w;
0048: 2 tin lighting accessoriesEst. $75-$100