NEW HAMBURG, Canada – A 1923 Willards Chocolates Babe Ruth baseball card was a hit for $23,600 and a cutaway model of a 1962 Vickers VC-10 BOAC jet plane soared to $18,880 in an online-only Advertising & Historic Objects auction held January 21 by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. Both lots blasted through their $2,000-$3,000 estimates. Overall, the auction grossed $369,163. All prices quoted are in Canadian dollars.

The Babe Ruth card, graded PSA 3 VG (Very Good), is an exceptional example of an early-issue Ruth card from a Canadian-issued set. It featured a sepia-toned image of the Bambino at bat, with a facsimile signature. It is considered the most sought after card in the series and came out of the estate of collector William Audley “Huck” Caesar. It was also the top lot of the auction.

The cutaway model of a 1962 Vickers VC-10 BOAC jet plane was one of only two known and was made by Walkers Westway in England. The model is highly sought after by collectors for its beautiful lines and interesting history. The full-size plane achieved a record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a subsonic jet airliner of five hours and one minute (which was ultimately broken much later).

Additional auction highlights include a monumental 1939 Canadian Coca-Cola single-sided porcelain sign, measuring seven feet wide by 45 inches tall, which earned $9,440; while an all-original 1950s Canadian Coca-Cola Vendo 44 vending machine in painted steel with chrome trim, coin mechanism and interior bottle racks, made $5,310.

Fruit jars are always a big hit with collectors. A Canadian Beaver quart jar in a dark honey amber color with an excellent factory ground lip attained $8,260; a Beaver left-facing midget pint jar with exceptional embossing and cooling marks at the termination of the thread changed hands for $5,015; and a Hamilton Glass Works No. 1 clamp jar, aqua-colored and in superb condition, reached $5,900.

Four items dating to the 1890s from Traders Bank of Canada – a nickel-plated cast iron architectural bank, which was often given on loan to families to encourage savings; two pencils, one of them mechanical; and a framed banknote – brought $7,080. Also, a Dr. Lesure’s Veterinary Remedies cabinet with a single-sided tin front door panel that shows a horse’s head in an oval, made in Coshocton, Ohio in the early 20th century, finished at $4,425.

An American 1920s Ward’s Lime Crush syrup dispenser, porcelain with a silver-plated pump, went for $5,605. Among the Ward’s syrup dispensers, the Lime version is known by collectors to be the most difficult to find. Another similar Ward’s syrup dispenser, this one for Orange Crush, also from the 1920s and porcelain with a silver plated pump, didn’t fare as well, possibly because the pump didn’t work. It realized $4,425.

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The current rate of exchange is dollar CA 1 = 74 cents.

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