Catalogued Antique Auction-Session One 2012-09-28 Auction - 367 Price Results - Horst Auction Center in PA - Page 3
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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1821 Johann Bär Lancaster imprint: ca. 1821; leather bound German New Testament printed in Lancaster, PA and having an 1824 bookplate for Daniel Schmidt; cased in a wooden display box;
0049: 1821 Johann Bär Lancaster imprintEst. $50-$75
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1785 Ephrata Cloister press imprint: ca. 1785; German prayer book for Mennonite and Amish families “Die Ernschafte Christenpflicht…” with basket of fruit block on title page; encased in a tiger maple display box;
0050: 1785 Ephrata Cloister press imprintEst. $350-$600
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2 leatherbound imprints: ca. 1780-1829; Philadelphia Edt. by Joseph Crukshank of John Griffith’s work “A Journal of the Life, Travels & Labors…” Quaker related; 1829 Germantown German imprint by Billmyer Luther’s
0051: 2 leatherbound imprintsEst. $80-$200
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4 early American newspapers: ca. 1779-1808; 1799 Porcupine’s Gazette, Philadelphia; 1779 Pennsylvania Journal & Weekly Advertiser; 1797 Aurora General Advertiser, Philadelphia; 1808 The Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser,
0052: 4 early American newspapersEst. $50-$75
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12 hole candle making bench: ca. 1850; rare form wooden bench with trough top over 12 redware tube shaped molds and retaining original hanging wires 15”x 19”;
0053: 12 hole candle making benchEst. $100-$350
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2 wooden primitives: ca. 1780-1860; traveler’s foot warmer with wooden mortise and tenon constructed frame with tin coal box, 9”x 8”x 6”; walnut bootjack with early wrought iron repairs, 21 ½”;
0054: 2 wooden primitivesEst. $75-$100
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3 early men’s related accessories: ca. 1840-80; Quaker style beaver felt head with trademark Schultz & Bros., Lancaster inside, 7”h; traveler’s leather covered document box, 11”x 7; steam bent hickory bootjack, 21 ½”;
0055: 3 early men’s related accessoriesEst. $50-$100
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Leather fire brigade bucket: ca. 1840; 11”;
0056: Leather fire brigade bucketEst. $75-$100
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5 hunting related accessories: ca. 1750-1880; leather shot bag with tin spout and wooden stopper; impressed leather powder flask with hunting dog scene; traveler’s leather covered green flask bottle with hemp rope tote; 2
0057: 5 hunting related accessoriesEst. $50-$100
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3 metal powder flasks: ca. 1840-90; 2 copper and brass with embossed raised patterns, 1 with floral scroll design and other with shell design; small zinc and brass flask with shell embossed pattern; 4 ½”, 7 ½”, 8
0058: 3 metal powder flasksEst. $50-$100
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3 horn flasks: ca. 1760-1850; rare large 18th century cone shape powder flask with screw tight wooden cap and collar of turned horn; later pistol shooters powder flask with turned collar; salt flask with violin
0059: 3 horn flasksEst. $75-$150
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Horn salt/snuff vial & shoe horn: ca. 1740-1840; small vial with horn screw in cap, 3 ½”; 18th century shoe horn with tulip decoration and initials “I.A.”, 7 ½”;
0060: Horn salt/snuff vial & shoe hornEst. $150-$300
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5 kitchen related primitives & utensils: ca. 1700-1800s; turned cherry wood shallow bowl; 2 horn serving spoons; bone handle 2 piece utensils set with knife signed “Maylor”;
0061: 5 kitchen related primitives & utensilsEst. $200-$400
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Burl bowl with scoop: ca. 1730-1800; turned burl wood lard bowl, 7”x 3 ¼”; carved cherry scoop, 8”;
0062: Burl bowl with scoopEst. $200-$400
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3 sugar related primitives: ca. 1760-1810; fine tool decorated sugar nippers, 10”; hand wrought sugar tongs, 7”; early brown sugar cone, 3 ½”;
0063: 3 sugar related primitivesEst. $100-$300
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2 wrought iron pie crimpers: ca. 1750-1850; early tool decorated and turned arm with turned maple handle, 6 ½”; stirrup held thick wheel on chamfered arm with turned walnut handle, 7 ½”;
0064: 2 wrought iron pie crimpersEst. $50-$100
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Table model sugar nippers: ca. 1830; wrought iron nipper with turned walnut handle on a brass post and mounted to walnut chamfered block, 13 ½”x 7”;
0065: Table model sugar nippersEst. $150-$300
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2 hand wrought kitchen tools: ca. 1800-60; T-handle sugar/fruit barrel “devil” auger with turned walnut handle, 13”; stirrup handle vegetable/meat chopper in primitive construction with handle branded “B.F. Hickman”, 6
0066: 2 hand wrought kitchen toolsEst. $75-$150
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3 pie wheels: ca. 1700-1800s; turned copper arm and brass wheel with turned maple handle; primitive walnut handle with pewter wheel; large brass wheel on wrought iron arm;
0067: 3 pie wheelsEst. $50-$100
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2 piece tool decorated butcher ladle set: ca. 1790; decorated handles on skimmer and butcher ladle with rattail hooks, 19”;
0068: 2 piece tool decorated butcher ladle setEst. $75-$150
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2 wrought iron kitchen utensils: ca. 1700s; large flesh fork with round eye hanger initialed “I.W.”, 13”; iron stuffing/stirring spoon with rattail hook, 19”;
0069: 2 wrought iron kitchen utensilsEst. $75-$150
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2 pie wheels: ca. 1800; large iron wheel with pie prick on walnut handle, 7 ½”; small brass wheel with slender wrought iron rod and turned cherry handle, 9 ½”;
0070: 2 pie wheelsEst. $100-$300
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3 kitchen primitives: ca. 1800s; pantry box with R.M.G. trade stamp, 6 ½”; turned and carved walnut funnel; handle pewter funnel;
0071: 3 kitchen primitivesEst. $50-$100
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2 pie wheels: ca. 1800-40; iron wafer wheel on wrought iron arm with brass ferruled cherry handle, 6 ¾”; brass wheel on turned barrel and block pattern arm with maple handle, 7 ¼”;
0072: 2 pie wheelsEst. $50-$100