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Cabin Fever To Hold Spectacular Antique Train And Toy Sale FRIDAY MARCH 29, 2019 • VOL. 50, NO. 13
Political Collectors To Gather In Titusville, N.J., For 16th Annual Button Show And More American Political Items Collectors (APIC) National Nonprofit Set For April 13 Show And Sale
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This is a large Marklin tin litho “Bahnhof” station. Cabin Fever Auctions is pleased to annouce it will hold a large antique train and toy sale on Saturday, April 6, starting at 10 a.m.
Its facility is located at 1860 Weavertown Road, Douglassville, Pa. Online bidding will be available Continued on page 5
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This is a Lionel 1912 New York/New Haven/Hartford 0-4-4-0 in dark olive.
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Online Auction Will Take Place On April 6 Tony Lee (right), a Titusville, N.J., resident, political historian and president of the Big Apple Chapter of the American Political Items Collectors (APIC) national nonprofit hobbyist association, discusses political ephemera with fellow collector and APIC member Chris Daniels (left), of Mount Arlington, N.J., during a recent political-memorabilia gathering in Lower Manhattan. East Coast collectors of political buttons, badges, ribbons and related ephemera will meet in Titusville, N.J., on Saturday, April 13, to sell, trade, and display memorabilia from elections throughout the centuries. This 16th annual gathering will be held at the Titusville United Methodist Church from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Attendees from multiple states may expect to see a wide variety of political items, ranging from 2020 presidential-campaign buttons promoting Donald Trump, Cory
Booker, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders to items from former presidents such as Teddy R. and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. The gathering will be hosted by the local chapter of the American Political Items Collectors (APIC) national nonprofit hobbyist association, dedicated to preserving political history. “We invite the young and old alike to learn more about collecting buttons, posters and other items from campaigns throughout American history,” says Tony Lee, a Titusville resident, political historian and president of APIC’s Big Apple Chapter. “Most political items don’t survive the elections in which they were issued, so to see an ‘I Like Ike’ apron or a Continued on page 2
Bottoms up! A unique collection of whiskey-related stoneware, glassware, and advertising will be offered in an online auction conducted by Andrew Richmond on Saturday, April 6. Featured in the event are stoneware advertising and miniature jugs, pre-Prohibition shot glasses and bar bottles, and advertising signs and tip trays. Other items for sale range from an Anna Pottery pig flask to railroad silver plate and dinnerware, as well as snuff boxes and nautical-themed china. There are no reserves, and all items will sell to the highest bidders. “It’s an impressive selection of material, primarily from a single collector in the Midwest,” said R i c h m o n d . “Whiskey and other liquor-related advertising continue to be highly sought by buyers. And that’s just one component of the sale.” The sale will feature approximately 500 lots, including more than three dozen one-gallon stoneware jugs advertising whiskey or liquor distillers and distributors. More than 70 miniature stoneware jugs with stamped or scratched advertisements promoting liquor makers and sellers, and over 100 pre-Prohibition advertising shot glasses. There is a collection of
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pre-Prohibition advertising bar bottles, more than four dozen glass historical flasks, and a collection of figural flasks, including an Anna Pottery pig. There is a collection of tip trays with whiskey advertising and a large collection of snuff boxes in a variety of materials, including scrimshaw and horn. Also, a collection of silver plate and china from the Pennsylvania Railroad, a collection of B&O Railroad pattern china (antique and Continued on page 2
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In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 4 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 6 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 6
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AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 8 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 15