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Alderfer Auction's April 23 Collectors sale features a broad variety of art, antiques, and novelty items. Asian works include, an Imperial tribute fan, Chinese porcelain, snuff bottles, alongside a selection of Japanese inro and fine cloisonné by makers such as Namikawa Yasuyuki and Miwa Tomisaburo. Fine art, includes oil paintings by Walter Emerson Baum, Tatiana M. Alexeeva, Philip Richardson Whitney, Robert Seufert, and Ray Overpeck. Novelty and collectible items include a 1957 Corvette, a Messerschmidt KR200, a National cash register, Brepsomy model cars, Mills slot machine, and Franklin Mint silver. Decorative arts standouts are a Jaeger-LaCoultre Marina Atmos clock and bronze sculptures. Furniture and rugs are represented as well, with a Renaissance Revival court cupboard, Martin Schreiner tall case clock, and a Persian Kashan carpet. Autographs of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sculptor Daniel Chester French, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, General Winfield Scott, General Benjamin Butler, Bing Crosby, military leaders and others. Historical items include National currency (1902 series), Colonial currency, Confederate currency, World War I recruiting poster, and a Vietnam war photograph archive.