Catalogued Antique Auction-Session One 2012-09-28 Auction - 367 Price Results - Horst Auction Center in PA - Page 6
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 broad squaring axe: ca. 1740-60; primitive lapped weld with modern leather edge guard, 11” edge, 14” handle;
0121: Hand wrought broad squaring axeEst. $25-$50
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3 long handle farm tools: ca. 1700s; T-handle potato/digging fork with 4 tine wrought iron head; long two-twine pitch fork (mound fork); long handle orchard/lath raising hook;
0122: 3 long handle farm toolsEst. $25-$75
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4 pieces Conestoga wagon ephemera: ca. 1840-1910; 1862 $5 town of Newark, Delaware bank note with Conestoga wagon and mill scene; 1843 Borough of Harrisburg 25 cent note with Conestoga wagon and steam locomotive; Hager store
0123: 4 pieces Conestoga wagon ephemeraEst. $50-$100
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1790 Conestoga wagon jack: ca. 1790; wooden housed wrought iron crack jack with catch stop, 20”-30”;
0124: 1790 Conestoga wagon jackEst. $100-$200
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Iron & brass Conestoga wagon collar bell set: ca. 1830-90; 5 brass bells on a wrought iron frame with partial cloth ribbon, 20” frame beam;
0125: Iron & brass Conestoga wagon collar bell setEst. $150-$300
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Pair of grease horns: ca. 1800-40; ox horns with wrought iron chain and bands, 2’;
0127: Pair of grease hornsEst. $150-$300
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Hames bell set: ca. 1810; wrought iron flat strap with 3 brass bells, 17 ½” flat rail;
0129: Hames bell setEst. $50-$100
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Wooden Conestoga wagon tar/grease bucket: ca. 1800-1850; with early blacksmith repaired band arrangement and chain and hanger assembly, 13”;
0130: Wooden Conestoga wagon tar/grease bucketEst. $150-$300
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Charles X. Carlson watercolor: ca. 1970; 18th century scene with a Conestoga wagon parked on a street in front of “The Conestoga Wagon Inn” and a trade sign of a clock and watch maker;
0131: Charles X. Carlson watercolorEst. $300-$500
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Horse head hitch pin with stay chain: ca. 1800-60; fine example of a horse’s head with artistically crafted eyes, ears and file work mane and stay chain mounted as bit through horse’s mouth, 12”;
0132: Horse head hitch pin with stay chainEst. $300-$500
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3 teamsters driving accessories: ca. 1840-80; leather high boots, 11”x 15”; “black snake” whip, 60”; bone handle hoof knife with leather sheath, 10”;
0133: 3 teamsters driving accessoriesEst. $100-$300
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Group of teamsters driving accessories: ca. 1800s; 4 small bone die; 6 ivory poker chips; 2 bone gambler’s plaques with “500” inscribed on each; pair of cast brass knuckles;
0134: Group of teamsters driving accessoriesEst. $200-$400
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5 tavern accessories: ca. 1780-1840; maple handle ale pitcher, 7”; 2 porcelain pipes, 1 with long stem and partial label; 2 stoneware pipes with bamboo stems;
0135: 5 tavern accessoriesEst. $50-$75
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Tavern blown firing glass: ca. 1750; with large bubble in stemmed, 5”;
0136: Tavern blown firing glassEst. $100-$200
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2 blown glass bottles: ca. 1700-1800s; 18th century dark olive green round bitters bottle with conical base in round beer bottle form, 8”; early 19th century aqua beer bottle with impressed label window, 7 ½”;
0137: 2 blown glass bottlesEst. $100-$200
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4 pieces of pewter: ca. 1800-60; unsigned tankard with owner inscription “J. Wellock” with English Y.R. touchmarks, 4 ¾”; Compton & Townsend, London luncheon plate, 7 ¾”; dinner plate, 9 3/8”; wooden handled
0138: 4 pieces of pewterEst. $75-$150
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2 Conestoga wagon accessories: ca. 1800-50; wrought iron rough lock, 24”; carved whimsy rough lock from one piece of wood, 28”;
0139: 2 Conestoga wagon accessoriesEst. $75-$150
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2 wrought iron tools: ca. 1780-1850; branding iron with brass stamp of Josiah Hardy and simple round hook, 17”x 3”; large mill shaker signed W. Noel with wrench head and bird gage handle, 23”x 2”;
0140: 2 wrought iron toolsEst. $50-$100
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Nathanel Merky bag stamp: ca. 1800-40; relief carved lettering with applied border in red painted pine wood, 19 ¼”x 5 ½”;
0141: Nathanel Merky bag stampEst. $100-$300
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John Good feed bag: ca. 1836; hemp cloth feed bag with stamp decoration, 48”x 21”;
0142: John Good feed bagEst. $25-$100
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4 pieces of hand wrought wagon hardware: ca. 1790-1850; tool box lid applied to original wood with hasp and 2 strap hinges with lima bean cusps; “Y” shape hound plate; butterfly wing rear bolster pin; double tree spreader with rope
0143: 4 pieces of hand wrought wagon hardwareEst. $75-$150
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6 hand wrought hinges: ca. 1730-1850; 2 ornate double ram’s horn side hinges with 1 having tool decoration; 4 various butterfly strap hinges with 3 having side plates;
0144: 6 hand wrought hingesEst. $75-$150