Saturday, November 21, 2009
We have been asked to sell at public auction the collections and inventory of Owen "Ottie" Cowan, a longtime resident of Urbana, Ohio who passed away this last Spring. "Ottie" was an active collector of a wide variety of paper and ephemera items. He was a regular attendee at local area auctions and estate sales. He gathered a large hoard of local Champaign County memorabilia plus a wide variety of items of interest. We have removed these items and will sell them at public auction to the highest bidder at the
Michael Farm Horticultural Building
Champaign County Fairgrounds
Park Ave, off S. Main St (Zipcode 43078)
Urbana, Ohio
Preview at 10:30 AM Auction Starts at 12:05 PM
Antiques & Collectibles: Champaign County; Urbana and local area items including Postcard Collection-Real photo, Ohio towns: Athens, Cincinnati, Springfield, Indian Lake, Urbana, Bellefontaine, Platt Castles, Champaign and Logan counties; West Liberty; DeGraff, etc. plus advertising, artist signed, exaggerations, agriculture, Halloween, Real Photo & much more. Complete set of 40 Red Man tobacco American Indians inserts; Maps, lg wall size, bound Ohio Railway-1903, 1907, 1914, etc; Railroad paper incl passes, schedules, bill heads, etc. Electric metal model of Tow Motor made in Urbana; Civil War era Bullseye Canteen; Ladies High Lace Shoes; Lg Mother-of-Pearl shell, other seashells; artifacts incl. arrowheads, points, etc; nice group of Sweet Caporal cigarette cards of actresses, also Sweet Caporal match box; Posters incl. Marines raising flag at Iwo Jima, famous WWII photo; Ohio's Birthday, Labor Day in Urbana, 1953; Advertising Calendars incl 1928 Springfield (Ohio) Metallic Casket Co.; 1913 Lake View (Ohio)Elevator Co.;1968 & 1969 Donna Loren Dr. Pepper; 1946 Norman Rockwell Coca-Cola/Boy Scouts; 1909 Anerson (South Carolina) Steam Laundry Co.; 1962 Union Pacific Railroad; 1938 & 1940 Reliable Fire Insurance Co, Dayton, Ohio; 1946 Hopewell Dairy Farms, Bellefontaine, Ohio; Autographed (certified in person) baseballs: Ted Williams; Brooks Robinson; Al Rosen; Buddy Bell; Johnny Mize; Frank Howard (faded) and Ned Garver; Autographed (certified in person) golf balls: George Archer; Bob Charles; Billy Casper; Bruce Fleisher; Simon Hobday; Gil Morgan, Bruce Lietzke; Gary McCord and a Calloway driver signed by Gay Brewer. Advertising items of all types, sold individually and in box lots; Paper items of all types-Advertising, invoices, receipts, legal documents, illustrated bills & letterheads, adv. envelopes, postal history, DPOs, RPOs; Lightmaster Jr Pocket Lantern; souvenir & travel booklets, catalogues;Scrapbook w/trade cards;Frank Leslie's Illustrated; James J. Corbett Theatre Program cover; matchbook covers; bundles of envelopes w/stamps/cancels. Sheet Music incl nice group of colorful E.T. Paull music-Chariot Race or Ben Hur March; Silver Sleigh Bells; The Midnight Flyer; Arizona; The Midnight Fire Alarm; Paul Revere's Ride; Napoleon's Last Charge; The Home Coming March; The Masquerade; The Storm King, etc; Adv. yard sticks;Pinbacks incl. political; scarce 1896 McKinley-Hobart Sound Money/Protection campaign pin (See scan) in Gallery photos); 1909 Wright Brothers Home Celebration, Dayton; advertising mirrors; Stereoscope and views; old photos incl. Urbana & area; 1847 issues of Western Citizen and Urbana Gazette newspapers; nice Collection of World's Fair items incl 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta Bronze Medal awarded to O.E. Lincoln & Son, Milford Center, Ohio for Sheep; 1884-85 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans lg Bronze medal award; 1893 World's Columbian Exposition Chase & Sanborn Seal Brand Coffee souvenir dish "in daily use at World's Fair;" Ticket to Chicago Day; 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St Louis World's Fair)colorful advertising mirror; Souvenir Spoon; 1936 Great Lakes Exposition, Cleveland Souvenir of Horticultural Bldg 1964-5 New York World's Fair pressed wood souvenir plate; Adirondack 8' toboggan purchased 60 years ago in Urbana, still in great shape Pittsburgh Trolley passes; lapidary stones & shells by the bucket full; stone cutter, potter's wheel & much, much more. We are still digging through this hoard of items and finding treasures. Watch this site for photos and detailed listings of items.
email us for details www.vansywalsy@aol.com
John Waldsmith, Auctioneer
PO Box 83, Sharon Center, OH 44274
(330) 239-2212
Sale by order of John Cowan, Executor, Urbana, Ohio
Food Service Provided Plenty of Parking Nice Heated Building
All items sold "As is, Where is" Terms: Cash or your good check.
We no longer accept Credit Cards
No Buyers Charge or Premium No Tax-First time at this location
Auctioneer licensed by the State of Ohio Dept of Agriculture
WE ACCEPT ABSENTEE BIDS--CONTACT US FOR DETAILS
