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Collectors | Day 1 | October 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Alderfer Auction's Collectors Day 1 sale features jewelry, sterling silver, furniture, rugs, and an extensive collection of pinball machines, jukeboxes, and coin-operated games. Jewelry includes 14k and 18k gold pieces from makers like Hamilton, Elgin, Bulova, and Lady Elgin, spanning rings, bracelets, watches, and brooches set with diamonds and gemstones. Sterling accessories include Native American squash blossom necklaces, turquoise pieces, and bear claw designs. Franklin Mint sterling collections anchor the silver section with Roberts Birds Medallions, Great Sailing Ships Ingots, and Presidential Commemorative Medals. Gold highlights include the Library of Congress Bimetallic Ten Dollar Proof Coin and World Cup USA 1994 commemoratives, alongside Polish coins, American Silver Eagles, and Royal Canadian Mint pieces. Furniture offerings include an R.J. Horner-style dining suite and Baroque pedestal table, complemented by Persian and Caucasian rugs. The specialized collection features early pinball machines including a 1933 Genco Admiral, extensive jukeboxes from Seeburg, Rock-Ola, and Wurlitzer spanning mid-century models, and arcade games including a 1981 Frogger cabinet. Other novelty items range from a Wayne Gretzky rookie card to carousel horses, vintage vending machines, and airplane propellers. From fine jewelry to vintage gaming machines, this sale offers diverse collecting opportunities across traditional and specialized categories.
Estate Sale | Phoenixville, PA | October 13, 2025 at 8:00PM
This auction presents a catalog centered on outboard motors, boats, toys, instruments, and military gear. Outboard motors include Elto, Evinrude, Johnson, Lauson, Martin, Sachs Wankel, Waterwitch, Sea King, and Elgin models, spanning early to mid-20th century engineering. Boats range from a wooden skiff with oars and Lone Star aluminum rowboat to toy and model boats in tin, wood, plastic, glass, and ceramic, including Chris-Craft examples and wind-up toys. Scientific instruments include an F.J. Munter wood-cased electrical device (1912), a Benz optical microscope with case, a Dow Portable Electric Assistant, and Smith Premier, Underwood, Royal, and Remington typewriters, along with a cast iron book press. Radios include Kolster and Zenith receivers. Ephemera includes extensive runs of Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Science and Invention, Modern Mechanix, Fortune, Yachting, Sportsman, and Radio News magazines from the 1920s–1950s. Military lots feature U.S. uniforms, Navy jumpers, medals, insignia, helmets, boots, canteens, ammunition boxes, field phones, and Signal Corps test equipment.
Home & Decor | October 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The Home and Decor Auction is anchored by historic clothing and textiles acquired from two different major historical museum deaccessions, complemented by ceramics, decorative arts, toys, holiday décor, and ephemera. Women’s fashion includes 1850s–1890s two-piece outfits, 1920s beaded dresses, 1930s evening gowns, and mid-century wedding gowns, alongside petticoats, hoop skirts, slips, and shawls. Accessories feature hat boxes, handbags, aprons, and vintage shoes, while men’s entries include wool vests, silk and wool neck ties, tuxedos, and hats by Wanamaker, Dobbs, Stetson, and Knox. Children’s and infant lots add embroidered gowns, bonnets, and coats. Household and decorative entries include Johann Haviland porcelain, Pyrex and Fire King glassware, German stoneware, spongeware, brass candlesticks, Chinese lacquered and earthenware garden stools, and stained glass lamps. Collectibles span American Flyer trains, tin and die-cast toys, model airplane engines, and cast iron playthings. Seasonal décor is extensive, with Halloween blow molds, Thanksgiving Don Featherstone pieces, vintage Christmas ornaments, and Easter decorations. Ephemera includes Victorian photo albums, postcards, stereoviews, advertising, political memorabilia, and sports trading cards, while additional highlights range from a Franklin Mint coin collection to bicycles and a Barbetta Sona amplified speaker.
Vintage Accessories | October 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Our Vintage Accessories Auction features hand mirrors, compacts, perfume bottles, brooches, handbags, and decorative accessories. Highlights include a Russian Imperial Silver Compact, and multiple Limoges porcelain purse mirrors with floral and figural designs. Other examples include Italian mosaic mirrors, Mexican sterling purse mirrors, and Art Nouveau gilt and enamel designs. Perfume and cosmetic entries include Czechoslovakian porcelain perfume bottles, a Bourjois Evening in Paris cobalt bottle, Atomette travel perfume bottles, thimble case and vintage lipstick pendants. Compacts include Evans and Ernest Steiner examples, Karess Woodworth Art Nouveau designs, and Art Deco enamel pieces. Accessories include Guilloche brooches, porcelain brooches, cameo pendants, and lithograph portrait pins. Handbags and purses range from Edwardian seed bead purses and French tapestry handbags to velvet clutches, Italian coin purses, and chain-link bags with enamel decoration. Victorian hand fans and lace fans with painted or printed motifs add further variety. This catalog spans Victorian through mid-20th century styles across mirrors, jewelry accessories, handbags, and perfume items.
Estate Sale | Part 2 | Zieglerville, PA | October 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This auction features dolls, toys, decorative arts, holiday décor, and household items. Dolls include German and French Bisque Head and Shoulder Head Dolls, Wax Over Papier-Mâché, Composition Dolls including Shirley Temple and Alexander, and Schoenhut Wooden Dolls. Other examples include Effanbee, Ideal, American Character, Revlon, Uneeda, Madame Alexander, Ginny, and Collector Barbie Editions, alongside boxed Monster High, Pullip, Ellowyne Wilde, Living Dead, and I Love Lucy Dolls. Accessories include doll clothing, trunks, carriages, and furniture. Toys and plush include Steiff Animals and a Steiff Elephant Pull Toy, Mohair Bears, Toy Soldiers, Tin and Litho Vehicles, Jellycat Plush Trees, and a Chris-Craft Model Boat. Decorative lots include Luke Adams Art Glass Pumpkins, Carnival Glass, Byers’ Choice Figures, Annalee Holiday Dolls, and Christmas Ornaments and Paper Cutouts. Household entries include Designer Purses, Brighton Bags, Travel Luggage, Women’s Shoes, Display Domes, and Lanterns. Books and ephemera include Children’s Fiction, Paper Dolls, and Postcards.
Estate Sale | Part 1 | Zieglerville, PA | October 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This auction features jewelry, dolls, furniture, decorative arts, toys, and household collections. Jewelry includes 18k and 14k Gold Necklaces, Bracelets, Earrings, and Watches, Gold Pins and Pendants with cameos and gemstones, and Sterling Silver Necklaces, Earrings, and Charms. Costume jewelry lots include brooches, charms, and assorted accessories. Dolls are well represented, with Madame Alexander, American Girl, Nancy Ann Storybook, Vogue Ginny, Bisque, and Composition Dolls, alongside Breyer Horses, Fabric Dolls, and Doll Furniture. Displays include a Victorian-Style Wooden Dollhouse with Dolls and Furniture. Furniture lots include a Sideboard with Mirror, Corner and Display Cabinets, a Hall Chair with Mirror and Hooks, Dining Table with Pressed-Back and Bow-Back Chairs, and a Statton Americana Desk. Decorative arts include Uranium Glass, a Figural Parrot Lamp, Brass Plates, Theorem Paintings, Angel Figurines, and Framed Prints. Household entries feature a Bose Wave Music System, Vacuum and Mop Systems, Eyewear, and Photo Albums. Toys and collectibles include Toy Soldiers, Die-Cast Vehicles, Hand Puppets, and Automotive Memorabilia.
Catalog of Antique and Other Fine Dolls | Day 2 | October 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Our October 1st Catalog of Antique and Other Fine Dolls Auction continues with the Collections of Sandra Walter (Hall), Linda Quynn Ross, The Estate of Gloria Casale et al. Highlighted items include a fine selection of French Dolls to feature Jumeau -(Long Face, No. 1 in Original Box, and Tete Jumeau), Bru - (Bebe Bru Jne, Bru Jne, and Bru Brevete), SC Steiner, SCH (Schmitt of Paris), French Fashions, AT - A. Thuillier, F.5.G. - Francois Gauthier, and Papier Mache. German Character Dolls HEXE Witch, “Old Rip”, Dressel Portrait Series, Foxy Grandpa, BUCHERER, and Bisque Miniatures Antique along with German all Bisque and Miniatures. German pull and squeak toys, Nodding Goat, French and German Automatons, German School Room, Black Americana, TUCK’s, and a Ventriloquist Dummy. Googly Eye Dolls offerings consist of 292 (Marked), Armand Marseille 241, Hertel + Schwab 173, JDK 221 (12" and 16"), Germany 323, 253, 292, and SFBJ 245. Contemporary Artist’s Dolls Mary Hoyer, Lewis Sorensen, Portrait Dolls, UFDC & NIADA. Wax Dolls consisting of Peddler Dolls, Vignette, and Poured Wax. Featured American Dolls include Polly Heckwelder, Charley McCarthy, Vintage Alexander, Dewees Cochran, Chase (Little Nel), and Rollinson/type.
Estate Sale | Oley, PA | September 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The Oley Estate Sale features tractors, engines, farm equipment, tools, and furnishings from a working farm. Notable entries include a Hart-Parr Kerosene-Gasoline Tractor, a Ford Model A Tractor Conversion, a Standard Twin Two-Wheel Tractor, and a Garden-All Tractor with Plow. Gas and hit-and-miss engines include McCormick Deering, Waterloo Boy, and Economy Models, along with a Friend Manufacturing Pump Motor and Hoosier Hand Pump. Horse-drawn vehicles range from a Wood and Metal Sleigh to a Saylor Wagon and Meadowbrook Cart. Implements include Horse-Drawn Plows, Cultivators, Corn Shellers, Seed Drills, and a Ross Cutter No. 8 Silage Chopper. Household and barn items include a Cast Iron Pot Belly Stove, a Parlor Stove with Skillets and Kettle, an Enterprise Sausage Stuffer, Wooden Rocking Chairs, a Union Clark Co. Ice Box, Music Cabinet, and Wooden Trunks. Additional entries include Temple and Cast Iron Bells, a Hydraulic Log Splitter, Milk Cans, and rustic Wooden Crates, Wheelbarrow, and Tricycle.
Musical Instruments | September 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Alderfer Auction is pleased to offer a wide assortment of musical instruments, sound equipment, amplifiers, percussion items and various accessories. Guitars from C.F. Martin, Gibson, Fender, Gretsch and more. Highlights including a 1943 Martin 0-18, a Gibson Custom Shop Chet Atkins classical electric, Rickenbacker 360/12 in Fire-Glo finish are just a sampling! Roland keyboards, TEAC, TASCAM and Sony vintage audio equipment, violins, banjos, cellos, accordions help to fill out this excellent musical assortment. You’ll also find protective cases, road cases, microphones, instrument and music stands DJ equipment and much much more!
Catalog of Antique and Other Fine Dolls | Day 1 | September 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This auction has expanded to a 2-Day Sale! Our September 30th and October 1st Catalog of Antique and Other Fine Dolls Auction will feature the Collections of Sandra Walter (Hall), Linda Quynn Ross, The Estate of Gloria Casale et al. Featured offerings include Maggie Iacono, R. John Wright, Krahmer – Puppen/Kosen, Ravca, Norah, Wellings, and K. Redmond Artist’s Dolls. Vintage Steiff dolls Include an original family-owned 12" Steiff 1930's 'Dicky' Bear and an early Tea Cozy Doll. Chase, Effanbee, Ideal, Kamkins, Polly Heckwelder, American Girl Dolls, Freundlich, and Dewees Cochran American Dolls. Contemporary Artist’s Dolls comprise of Tonner, Kish, Alexander. Googly Eye Dolls 111, 293, Heubach 10542, and Elisabeth. 1950s-1960s Alexanders, VOGUE, Mary Hoyer, BARBIE Family, and Sandra Sue. French Dolls 1907, Limoge, DEP Walking Doll, Tete Jumeau, and Depose E8J. Also, a German White porcelain KPM “Nymphenburg Lady”, K*R, S&H, and Kestner. Schoenhut Model Nos. 108, 308, 311, 316, 317 Sleep Eye, 403, and 405 along with PINN Family Dolls and Circus Animals/Figures. Other dolls include Door of Hope & Liberty of London, and Black and Native American Dolls.
Home & Decor | September 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The Home and Decor Auction offers an extensive range of decorative art, tableware, lighting, furnishings, and collectibles, blending vintage, antique, and mid-century styles. The sale includes a variety of vintage holiday decoratives lots including Shiny Brite decorations, German and Japanese putz, candy containers, Halloween decorations and entertaining items. Collectors will find an assortment of Nippon, Hall Pottery and China, cast iron cookware, doorstops and toys, art glass, Dresden china, dolls and Hummels.
Jewelry | September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The Jewelry Auction includes fine gold, silver, and platinum jewelry alongside vintage watches, pocket watches, and costume groupings. Gold pieces feature an 18k Nephrite Ring, 14k Topaz and Diamond Rings, 14k Opal, Pearl, and Sapphire Pendants, 14k Earrings and Bracelets, and 10k Class Rings including one marked “Drexel University 1891” with sapphire. Sterling silver entries include Rings, Earrings, Pins, Charms, Cameo Clips, and Bracelets. A Platinum Pin set with Diamond Accents is also offered. Watches include a Gruen 14k White Gold Wrist Watch with Diamonds, a 14k Longines Wrist Watch, an 18k Enamel Wrist Watch with Seed Pearl Accents, a 14k Waltham Pocket Watch, and other groupings featuring Bulova, Seiko, Pulsar, and Michael Kors. Costume jewelry lots contain Necklaces, Pendants, Bracelets, Pins, Earrings, Cuff Links, Tie Clips, and Dress Clips, with cameo portraits and decorative gold-tone settings. Additional accessories include Vintage Purses, Button Hooks, Letter Openers, and Pocket Knives.
Discovery Art | September 24th, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Alderfer Auction's Discovery Art sale presents an eclectic collection spanning 19th through 21st-century paintings, prints, and works on paper. Blue-chip highlights include Pablo Picasso prints "Jacqueline Roque" and "Las Repas Frugal," a Marc Chagall lithograph "Sarah And Abimelech," and three classic Maxfield Parrish illustrations including "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod." Regional American art features multiple works by Pennsylvania painter Nolan P. Benner, Jr. (1922-1998) depicting local landscapes and industrial scenes, alongside Martin Jack Zipin's "Pennsylvania Winter." The Rogers estate contributes significant lots from both Richard Rogers (1903-1967) and Mary Bean Rogers (1904-1997) with oils, watercolors, and mixed media. International works include Frank Milton Armington's Louvre-printed etching and Wolfgang Roth's circus-themed screen print series. Maritime themes, landscapes, and abstract compositions provide variety across different periods and styles. This diverse sale offers accessible collecting opportunities from recognized masters to quality regional artists, combining framed presentation pieces with unframed works for customization.
Sold! Real Estate For Auction | 1286 Bridgeton Hill Rd, Upper Black Eddy, PA 18972 | September 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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WE SELL REAL ESTATE! Welcome to this one-of-a-kind artisan home, nestled on over 20 acres of private, wooded land in Upper Bucks County, PA. This property is a true natural oasis, with an attention to detail inside and out, including many exotic plantings, a tranquil pond and a meandering stream that runs along its edge. The estate is comprised of two distinct parcels, offering a perfect blend of seclusion and accessibility. One parcel features a sprawling 17.53 acres of lush woodland with the pond and stream, while the other provides 3.91 acres with road frontage and a 500-yard stone driveway. The adjacent shop/garage/barn with open floor plan and loft is ready for you! Whether your hobbies are cars, horses or woodworking, this space allows you room to dream and expand. Whether you're seeking a full-time residence, a weekend retreat, or a unique short-term rental property, this home offers endless possibilities. It's ready for a new owner to add their custom-build and complete its final vision. Located just minutes from some of Bucks County's best-known natural attractions, this property is a gateway to adventure. You are a short drive from Nockamixon State Park, with over 5,000 acres for hiking, biking, fishing, and boating. Also nearby is Ringing Rocks Park, where a three-mile trail leads to a field of rocks that produce a distinct ringing sound when struck. With New York City only an hour and twenty minutes away, this is the perfect escape for those seeking a weekend retreat.
US and Worldwide Stamps | September 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Our September Stamp Auction features an astounding array of rare and valuable pieces for every discerning collector. Highlights include an exceptional collection of US Stamps, Correspondence to the Morris Family of Phila, most with contents, mostly Great Britain #67, #68, #101, and other Worldwide Covers, offering a glimpse into postal history. Bid on sought-after classic US stamps such as #39, and a complete set of #112-#122. We also feature the elusive US Stamps, #263, and the incredibly rare US Stamps, J37. For worldwide enthusiasts, don't miss the Worldwide Stamps, C42-C47 Zep Cover, a true centerpiece. The auction also boasts an impressive selection of US First Day Covers from the 1930s-40s, including many nice caches and flight covers, along with hundreds of unaddressed First Day Covers, about half of which are Colorano Silk. Discover valuable US Imperfs, China Covers, and classic US covers, blocks, and errors. A wide range of US stamps by catalog number will be available, including #1, #2, and #12, alongside many others. Additionally, a diverse assortment of Worldwide Stamps includes Mediterranean Colonies, Canada Provinces, British Pacific, British Africa, and comprehensive Scott International Albums. With thousands of First Day Covers, numerous stamps, and substantial lots of US stamps by face value, this auction presents an unparalleled opportunity to enhance your collection!
