ANTIQUES
& COLLECTIBLES AUCTION
Owners
– Jack & Beverly Houser
Saturday,
October 3, 2009 @ 10:00 a.m.
106
South Main Street in Wanatah, Indiana
Directions – Take US 30
9 miles east of Valparaiso to Wanatah; turn south on Main Street (BP Amoco
station on corner); go 5 blocks to auction site. Watch for signs. Auction held indoors.
Auctioneer’s Note – Mr.
& Mrs. Houser, of Valparaiso, have collected a variety of items over the
years and are in the process of downsizing.
They are offering many harder-to-find items for auction.
Partial Listing – Much More to UNPACK!!!!
FURNITURE
Victorian walnut
headboard and footboard, cane bottomed high chair, wall mirrors, Oak dresser w/
mirror, oak chest of drawers, drop leaf table, upholstered Victorian rocker, upholstered
chair, small cabinets, bookcase, primitive cabinet, plate rack, unique oak
desk, and more.
See more furniture pictures HERE
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
Taylor roulette wheel
(Made in Chicago), Stromberg Carlson oak wall telephone, 1939 Zenith console
tube radio, 1920’s Japanese Drugstore sign “Headaches” (5 ½ feet), AMF pedal
fire truck (1950’s or 1960’s), Cherry pitter; old bird cages; 2-man saw, Chicago
traffic light, Japanese doll w/ display case & fan, unusual fan picture
(brass?), clocks, gumball machine, early 1900’s Funeral Director or Traveling
Preacher’s portable pump organ, copper-lined tobacco stand, brass music stand,
several old kitchen scales, old toasters, brass scale, stamp machine, mannequin
dressed as harem dancer, camel seat style bench or foot stool, Emerson fan w/
brass blades, 1870’s pump organ & stool, cement Black boy fishing, 1915 New
York Central telegraph key, copper boiler w/ lid, Nylint Aerial hook &
ladder fire truck, 1960’s Kick ‘n Go, old desk from Kouts school, tobacco cans,
pipes, ash trays, buckboard wagon seat, crocks, milk cans, sad irons, courting
candles, Capodimonte pitcher w/ lid, Johnson’s No. 10 First Aid cabinet (ca.
1925), (2) Monta mowers, Sestrel B3/9147 brass ship’s binnacle (to hold
compass), old shoe shine kit, Brunswick cabinet record player (78s), National
cash register, large wall clocks, green depression glass, vintage brooms w/
scrapers on handles, leaded glass windows, large stained glass window, and much
more.
More Antiques & Collectibles
pictures can be found here.
RAILROAD ITEMS
1943 GE steam switch
engine bell, (2) Adlake lanterns, C&O caboose light & carbide lantern,
caboose brake wheel, Burlington Northern diesel horn, Pennsylvania RR oil can,
RR track gauge level, Northern Pacific RR 5-cent Cigar spittoons, book of train
matchbooks, spike driver, other items.
SWORDS
1. Russian Cossack saber (1880 model ca. 1900),
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2. Early 1800’s (Napoleonic Era) French Officer’s
court sword (welded blade),
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weld) Picture 5 Picture 6 Picture 7 (shows
weld)
3. German Officer’s sword from WWI or WWII,
emblem removed
4. Reproduction “Toledo Spain” Juan Carlos sword
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5. Reproduction (older) CID sword (exact copy of
the Pizarro sword)
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6. Revolutionary War period “Philadelphia Light
Horse” with scabbard (Solingen steel blade) and is very difficult to find
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7. Genuine Wakizashi (short Samurai sword) by
Yamashiro circa 1650 A.D. w/ Non-commissioned officer’s metal scabbard,
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8. Katana (1940) w/ wood scabbard,
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9. Barongs or Taliban short swords made in
Philippines w/ blood pitting on both;
10.
Reproduction Afghan
Kindjal short word blade similar to Roman short sword,
11.
Reproduction Ghurka
knife,
12.
Genuine Marine Raider’s
knife in modern scabbard,
MILITARY
US Army Signal Corps
field telephone with Morse code key date pat. 1917(2) Zero fighter aluminum bracelets
(1. Okinawa 1946 2. New “Caledonia” w/ British & US flags), reproduction
small German Imperial Naval Ensign (pre-WWII); Planchet of Gunter Prien (hero
of Scapa Flow Scotland U-47 sunk the British flagship Royal Oak and was Admiral
Doernitz’s favorite U-Boat Captain), reproduction Iron Cross (Germany WWII with
swords and oak leaves), Chinese Nationalists spurs, WWII trench art 75mm shell
casing 88th Division
(machined on a destroyer in the Mediterannean), crocheted woman’s head covering
with a Swastika border), still packed WWII US parachute
OTHER
Giraffe lamp, keyboard
DC holder, jewelry display case, Nintendo & Super Nintendo,
TERMS & CONDITIONS – Cash, approved check,
credit cards. 7% Indiana sales tax on
all purchases. Announcements day of sale
take precedence.
Engstrom Auctions
AC30200060
Gallery -- 219.326.6200
Day of Auction – 219.733.2343