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Field Trip To Explore Mills Of Lancaster County, Pa. Tour Historical Mills During Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Trip On June 9 FRIDAY MAY 11, 2018 • VOL. 49, NO. 19
It Was A Gold Rush At Holabird’s Western Americana Collections’ Four-Day Auction Items From East And West Coast Sold Holabird Western Americana Collections’ Gold Rush Sale, held March 15 to 18, online and in Reno, Nev., lived up to the billing. An outstanding 36-coin “Harts Coins of the West” set of gold coins sold for $41,572, and a solid gold goose egg made in 1982 and engraved “one pound troy +/- Fine Gold / 999.9 / 1 of 87” finished at $24,100. The “Harts Coins of the West” set of 36 gold coins (or tokens) is a colorful commemoration of all U.S. gold rush locales and features unusual denominations, such as Pinch, DWT and Expo. The coins range in grade from MS 63 to MS 66 and make for an impressive visual, 36 pieces of privately minted, golden art. The
An interesting 36-coin “Harts Coins of the West” set of gold coins (or tokens), a colorful commemoration of all U.S. gold rush locales, in grades from MS 63 to MS 66, sold for $41,572.
maker, M.E. Hart, is believed to be businesswoman Mary Hart. The solid gold goose egg is an artisan’s piece made by Phoenix jeweler George Villa of Goldcraft Jewelers Inc., in February 1982 for a client who envisioned marketing the golden eggs. He abandoned the idea once he realized the cost to produce just one egg was over $1,000. The eggs were hand-hammered and crafted to goose egg size, each one weighing 12.02 troy ounces. Fittingly, the auction was a celebration of America’s major gold rushes, from Georgia and North Carolina to California, a four-day auction event that featured hundreds of lots in a wide array of collecting categories. The headliner was the Al Adams collection. Adams’ specialty was an area few people even know about, The 1897 broadside for the V&T (Virginia & the Georgia and North Carolina gold Truckee) Railroad, advertising prices for rushes of 1799 through the 1840s. It bringing passengers from Reno to Carson began with the discovery of a single City (Nev.) for the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, gold nugget in North Carolina in 1799. Nearly three decades passed before sold for $1,625. substantive gold discoveries were made in North Carolina and, to a larger extent, Georgia. “We had a record 3,439 registered bidders from the several live bidding platforms, which made the sale The Munckton Gold and Silver Mining Company stock certificate popular,” said Fred (Dunderberg Lode, Mono County, Calif.) for 55 shares, issued to Holabird of Holabird James Fraser on Dec. 9, 1870, in Carson City, Nev., sold for $1,125. Continued on page 2
Lancaster’s agricultural heritage is visible in its landscape, not just in the fields, but in the physical structures as well. One of the first buildings constructed by European settlers for their new communities was a mill to grind grain, and mills remained an important part of Lancaster County’s economy throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Join the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society (LMHS) on a tour of historic mills of Lancaster County, including the last two operable water powered grist mills in the county, on Saturday, June 9, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Grist, or grain grinding mills, were the predominant type of mill, producing various types of flour as the main product. At one stop along the trip, the complete milling process will be demonstrated. At least 314 water-powered grist mills operated in Lancaster County, found on streams and rivers of all
sizes. “Even on streams so small they are easily crossed by merely jumping,” notes tour leader Martin Keen. By the mid-19th century, steam power became readily available, and mills no longer had to be located along a stream for power. Besides grist mills, there were also sawmills, oil mills, fulling mills, textile mills, gun barrel boring mills, and more. All the various types of mills will be discussed during the tour. Registration costs $70 for LMHS members and $85 for nonmembers. Tickets can be purchased by calling 717-393-9745 or by visiting www.lmhs.org. This trip is not handicapped accessible. Touring all floors of the mills will require the use of stairs. Tours begin and end at the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, located at 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, Pa.
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Going Once, Twice, Sold! Reading Area Community College Student Auction To Be Held In Dover, Pa., On May 11 Three aspiring student auctioneers enrolled in the Auctioneering Certification Program at Reading Area Community College (RACC) will showcase their bid calling talents on Friday, May 11, at the Auction House of Mount Royal located at 6421 Carlisle Road, Dover, Pa. The students’ interests in the auction industry vary. Shelly Roberts of Mechanicsburg has Student auctioneers (from left) Ryan Hess, more than 10 years of experience Matthew Martin and Shelly Roberts will showcase working at Costea’s Auction their talents on May 11 at the RACC Student Gallery. In addition to clerking, Auction. Roberts manages Costea’s website, Facebook page, and designs sale of personal property, equipmarketing materials. She wants to ment, antiques, and automobiles. add bid calling to her list of duties Hess wants to create an innovative and hopes to do some charity auc- approach to real estate auctions and tions as a way to help organizations develop a niche serving homeownin the area raise money for those in ers, estates, companies, and banks. need. This year, the program’s stuMatthew Martin of Ephrata works dents will be selling a wide variety at his family’s greenhouse business, of antiques, art, collectibles, vintage where they grow a diverse variety of items, household goods, tools, plants. He will be selling a number of advertising items, sports cards, and them at the May 11 Student Auction more. The Student Auction is a capjust in time for Mother’s Day. Martin stone of the RACC Auctioneering hopes to be a contract auctioneer, Certification Program. This program working for other auction companies trains students for the state’s aucin the region, and has experience tioneering license exams, as well as doing charity auctions. topics such as how to bid call, the Ryan Hess of Landisville is a real newest auctioneering technology, estate broker and investor with more appraising, product knowledge, than 20 years of experience. He auction law, and ethical standards. wants to have the ability to serve For additional information on clients with the option of using auc- the Student Auction, call Maria tions for their real estate needs and Speicher at 484-336-0765 or email to add additional services for the mspeicher@racc.edu.
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In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 6 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 7 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 7
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AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 8 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 19