Catalog: Popular Collectibles (37)

This glorious pitcher featuring the mascot of The Sleepy Eye Flour Mill Company was among the popular promotional items given to customers of its flour. Decorated in the round, the pitcher includes tee-pees and trees.

Condition is Very Good, suffering from age toning and crazing. There are no cracks or chips.

Dimensions (inches)
Height: 9
Width: 9
Depth: 3 3/4

This majolica strawberry server is a reproduction of the George Jones classic produced c. 1875. It features 2 parakeets atop a trellis eating berries. Vines, leaves, and berries wrap around the poles, with 2 buckets for cream and sugar.

Condition is Excellent. Dating is probably mid to late 20th C. Retail value for an authentic item is 6000-9000 dollars.

Dimensions (inches)
Wdith: 15 1/2

Football great Jim Taylor (1935-2018), star player for the legendary 1960s Green Bay Packers, signed this 8 x 10 inch photograph Good Luck, Jim Taylor, HOF 1976. His extensive Wikipedia page gives a full account of his career and achievements. Framed in gold

Condition is excellent and bears a certificate of authenticity on the back.

Dimensions (framed)
Height: 14 1/2 inch
Width: 11 1/2 inch

Former Cleveland Browns legend who made a name for himself on the gridiron and in the cinema signed this football with his HOF 71 tagline, an honor he earned for his stellar career which he closed to enter acting. Some analysts consider Jim Brown the greatest football player ever.

Condition is spectacular as is the signature. The football is Wilson National Football League. A mirrored case is included with the ball.

Dimensions

This stylish basket weave purse was quite the rage during the 1950s when Dorset Rex marketed this patented purse during the Eisenhower years. The patent was actually issued in late 1949, after which a wide range of purses entered the market. The Dorset Rex tag tells us that the purse was made after 1951, thus we date it c. 1955.

This purse is gold with reddish-brown, possibly deep mauve, lucite top which closes with an S-hooked clasp. The horse shoe handle rotates freely on pins...

The iron this miniature stove is silky smooth, just the way you expect on quality antique cast iron toys. The nickel plated stove has a working door, a side grate, back device, and sits atop a 4 legged base.

Not much information is available on Star stoves, but they appear from time to time. This one retains its back piece - something of a rarity among these stoves. Also, some variants have a grated base plate, suggesting that this move was to save on materials costs...

This American made beauty was issued by Lionel Trains in 1954 as a replacement for its 394 version of the Rotating Aircraft Beacon. The red paint and black plaque with silver lettering identifies this variation as A which is probably the earliest variant.

Condition is fair with loss of the rotating housing being its chief defect. However, it does have the original lightbulb. Minor paint losses, dust, and dirt have settled on the grand beacon...

This Pyrex robbin's egg blue opalware bowl has a white rim which offsets the light blue of the main body. It was made for a short time from 1966-68, making it a harder item to add to your collection.

Condition is good, though having been used often, it bears many scratches. Yet given its scarcity, it would be a nice filler piece until a pristine version was found.

Dimension
volume: 1 1/2 pint
diameter: 5 3/4 inch

Vintage splendor awaits you when you take home these 4 colored Pyrex nesting opalware bowls from the 1950s. The blue, red, green and yellow bowls evoke the days of Howdy Doody, Elvis, and pink Cadillacs.

The volumes are 1 1/2 pint, 1 1/2 quarts, 2 1/2 quarts, and 4 quarts. The 3 larger bowls do not have the well known 401-404 model number present on so many of these bowls, telling us that they are from the 1940s and rather rare...

This fire truck is the mack daddy of Japanese tin friction propelled fire engines - its large size making it a very desirable truck. Its size, color, detail, and nostalgia conspire to make the ideal toy for your displaying pleasure.

The bright red engine is manned by 4 fire fighters in uniform wearing helmets...

A vintage American Wigeon duck decoy carved from wood, and painted in a simple style with brown body and red wings and feathering. The head has a dark green bandit mask with glass eyes. This working decoy has a hook attached and its owner's marked anchor.

Condition is excellent but I cannot make affirmations about the originality of the paint.

The decoy is unsigned and dates to mid 20th C. Its previous owner stated that it came from Louisville, Kentucky...

A mounted National League Baseball baseball signed by former Atlanta Braves baseball player Steve Avery. Beside it is a 1991 Score baseball card. Based upon other items from this estate, I believe that the ball was signed during Avery's playing days.

Dimensions
Height: 4 1/4 inch
Width: 7 inch
Depth: 3 1/2 inch

From the Sunday December 10, 1899 New York Herald is an advertisement for RIPANS tablues, an over the counter remedy for a litany of ailments. Its founder was George Rowell who was an advertising trailblazer in the brokerage business...

This red and yellow sign promoted the Coca Cola campaign to encourage grocery store sales of its flag ship brand. The daring use of two primary colors certainly got people's attention and should get yours today, too.

The sign is made of cardboard and features a 6 pack carton of coke with the message to Take Home A Carton...

This Japanese tin toy fire truck moves when wound up by priming it on a hard surface. Its bright red finish shows off all the bells and whistles one could want on a fire engine. The driver is accompanied by 3 mounted figures with one waving a red flag as it moves. The extension ladder moves and rotates. The front hood has a mounted siren...

This fantastic metal advertising sign for Grapette soft drink is among its earliest productions if not the first, alone making it a very desirable collector's item. But the fact that it is so large and decorative gives it extra oomph - especially for that holy of holies - the man cave.

This advertising sign is in exceptional condition considering its past life as an advertisement. It has nail holes at the outer rim on the top and the bottom...

This package is the ultimate Graflex Speed Graphic bundle - there is almost too much here to list...

At 18 1/2", this retired and hard to find wood Mickey Mouse is well above average in size, finished in blond, and standing on a round pedestal with hands held behind his back...