Auction Information

      PLEASE NOTE: THIS SALE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES WITH LISTING & PHOTOS AS WE NEAR THE AUCTION DATE. A snapshot of photos of items in this auction are now on this site w/ more to come, so be sure to check back. 

                                               THANK YOU, JERRY

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Marathon Auction Sales

“ON-LINE ONLY”

"QUALITY ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBILES ESTATE AUCTION"

SOFT CLOSE

SUNDAY –    JANUARY 29TH - 5.00 PM

Bidding at: Marathonauction.hibid.com

Physical Location:

980 US 11 NORTH (CORTLAND RD.) EXIT 9 (I- 81)

MARATHON, NEW YORK

WEBSITES: AUCTIONZIP.COM (ID # 3885)  

     I hope everyone had a very peaceful & loving Christmas & New Year. May the New Year bring you all, great joy, happiness and prosperity.

    This first “ON-LINE ONLY” sale of the New Year will feature selected fine Antiques & Collectibles from a combination of several excellent Central New York estates. Included in this Offering Will be a Selection of Quality Furniture, Good Books & Quality Accessories to Include Decorated Stoneware, Nice assortment of Sterling Silver, Country Collectibles, Woodenware, Quality Glass, China & Pottery, Interesting Accessories and Much More.  See Partial Listing Below.

Furniture: Scarce Danish Designer Borge Mogensen Danish Modern 1960 Mid-Century 7 Drawer Teak Tall Chest on Turned Leg Base, Henkel-Harris Mahogany Queen Anne Style Highboy, Henkel-Harris Mahogany Q A Lowboy, Quality Working Howard Miller Moon Phase Westminster Hall Clock w/ Broken Arch Top, Quality Lighted Walnut 6 Door Carved Curio Cabinet, Oak Barley Twist Ladies Flat Top Desk w/ Matching Chair, Low Mahogany 3 Door Cupboard, Mid-Century Danish Oak 8 Drawer Low Chest,  Mid-Century Oak Low Bookcase, Two Door Larkin Oak Bookcase, Empire Sofa, Mahogany Inlaid Settee & Matching Chair, Gold Gilded Haywood Wakefield Sheraton Style Side Chairs, Early Pine Carpenter’s Tool Chest, Early Federal Mahogany Bow Front Chest of Drawers, Quality Walnut Oval Marble Top Tables, Marble Top End Stand, Nice Chippendale Style Wing Back Chair, US Military Chest, Nice Wicker Settee w/ Original Finish, Quality Harden Carved Tall Poster Queen Size Bed, Nice Oak Drop Leaf Extension Table w/ 4 Leaves in Orig. Finish, Early Painted Pine Old Store Counter w/ Open Shelf Back, Bamboo Book Shelf, Two Nice Cherry Drop Leaf Tables, Two Cherry Valley Stickley 1 Drawer Stands etc.

Stoneware: Rare Stoneware Poison Jar, Several Pieces of Decorated Stoneware to Include a Scarce Unusual Ovoid Jug from Jordan, NY, Scarce J.S. Smith & Co, Stoneware Jug from Syracuse and others, Red Wing Small Stoneware Hopper w/ Spigot, Large 20 Gallon Red Wing Hopper, Blue Banded 2 Ga. Water Cooler w/ Lid & Spigot, Generic Stoneware to include Pitchers, Canning Jar, Ink Bottles & Batter Jugs etc.

Glass, China & Pottery: Rare & Scarce French Porcelain Partial Dinner Service w/ George Washington Monogram, Waterford Crystal Pitchers, Decanters, Stemware etc., Steuben, Beautiful Hobbs & Brockunier Toothpick, Fenton, Art Glass, Pr. of Moorcroft Style Candlesticks by Royal Stanley “Jacobean” England, Pink Luster Teapot, Copper Luster Adam Bond Teapot, Bennington Bowl, Sponge Decorated Yellow Ware Bowl, Erphila Art Pottery German Vase, Student Art Pottery Vase,  Nice Pr. of Crystal Electrified Girandoles, Several Pieces of Quality Cut Glass to Include J. P. Hoare, Canastota, Cut Glass Jardinière, Signed Edgerton Compote, Vases, Pitchers, Decanters, Bowls etc, Nice Pyrex Bell Jar, Great Large Corning Bell Jar in Orig. Box, Royal Copenhagen Figure of Girl w/ Cat, Service in Chinaware by Theodore Haviland in their “Rajah” Pattern with serving pieces, Chinaware Service by Alfred Meakin in Red & White “Tonquin” Pattern w/ serving pieces…, 

Sterling Silver etc: Large Sterling Silver Platter - 51Plus Troy Ounces, Nice Sterling Salver, Nice Reed & Barton Windsor Bowl, Large Fantastic Heavily Chased Repose Coffee Set w/ Coffee Pot, Creamer & Sugar by the Hennegen & Bates Co of Baltimore (This beautiful set is chased with the family’s homestead from Baltimore all over its surface & sports Rams Heads on handles & standing Lions on the covers.  – a Truly Sensational Museum Quality Item.) Tiffany Sterling to include Nice Bowl, Unusual Senator Henry L. O’Brien Golf Goblet Trophy & Fancy Tiffany Bon Bon Spoon. Also Sterling Repose Toast Fork, Exc. Presentation Chalice, Beautiful .800 Silver Repose Jewel Box w/ Gold Wash Interior, Lunt Modern Victorian Flatware Service in Sterling, Sterling Souvenir Spoons, Sterling Cocktail Server, Sterling Double Shot Glasses, 2 Pr. of Sterling Candlesticks, Other Sterling Flatware, Creamer & Sugar, Unusual Set of Sterling Weighted Coasters, Sterling Silver Coaster w/ Tortoise?  Shell Center, Sterling Presentation Plates, Scrap Sterling, Two One Ounce Sterling Silver Ingots, 10 Ounce Sterling Silver Bar, 1878 "S" Morgan Silver Dollar, 1781 Mexican Silver Colonial Coin, 1867 Napoleon III Silver Coin Made into French Flem for Blood Letting etc.  

Signage & Advertising: Unusual White Label Cigar Tin, Steuben 4 ½ Mile Road Sign, Dead End Street Sign, Registered Motor Vehicle Repair Shop, “Watch Our Chains Grow” Tin Sign, Buzz Fuse Plugs Dispenser Box, Buzz Auto Fuse Tin Dispense Box, A C Spark Plug Gasket Dispenser, Champion & A C Spark Plug Boxes for Model A Fords etc., Dunlop Tire Ad, Hamilton Watch Co. Oak Box, Bronze Nellie Lawson Doorknob Paperweight, Movie Star Slips Advertising Box, Several Early Auto Registrations… 

Artwork & Related: Great Silk Eagle & Flags Memorial Banner in Frame of Soldier’s Cruse to China, Japan & P.I. Picturing Soldier in Uniform and Painting of the USFS Brooklyn Military Ship. Very Impressive Piece!! Gilded Framed Oil on Canvas Portrait of Hessian Soldier Supposed to Have served in George Washington’s Army, Primitive Oil on Hardboard Landscape Painting, Early Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting in Quality Gilded Frame, Other Nice Quality Gilded Frames, Early Folk Art Still Life Painting on Velvet signed C.B., Early Folk Art Oil on Hardboard Portrait of Woman w/ Bonnet & Books & Other Oil Paintings.....  

Books & Related: 1868-69 Directory of Chemung & Schuyler Counties in Nice Condition, Herbert Hoover Book on Negro Housing, History of Central New York by Henry Melone - 1932 in 3 volumes - Nice Condition, Nice Selection of Good Children’s Books to include Little Black Sambo, Sept-Oct Issue Hot Rod & Speedway 10 cent Comic, Spring Issue Speed Smith 10 cent Comic, #3 Hot Rods & Racing Cars Comic, 1875 Modern Geography Atlas w/ Copper-Plate Maps. Complete list below:

1.    “NEGRO HOUSING” - UNDER PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER 1932 

2.      THE IROQUOIS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - BARBARA GRAYMONT

3.      COBBLESTONE LANDMARKS OF New York STATE – OLAF SHELGREN ETC.

4.      THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES –A. CONAN DOYLE- 1902

5.      THE CIVIL WAR DAY BY DAY AN ALMANAC – BARBARA LONG

6.      MY VERY OWN FAIRY STORIES – JOHNNY GRUELLE -1928

7.      MY CIRCUS ANIMALS BY V. L. DUROV -1936

8.      BLACK BEAUTY BY ANNA SEWELL

9.      HISTORY OF SKANEATELES –E. NORMAN LESLIE

10.     SQUIRRELS & OTHER FUR BEARERS –JOHN BURROUGHS

11.     A VANISHED WORLD - ANNE GERTRUDE SAELLER

12.     TOM PAINE –AMERICA’S GODFATHER – W.E.WOODWARD – 1946

13.       A SYSTEM OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY- S. AGUSTUS MITCHELL

14.       EXOTIC AQUARIUM FISHES – WILLIAM T. INNES 1953

15.       1868 DIRECTORY OF CHEMUNG & SCHUYLER COUNTIES

16.       HISTORY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK – 3 VOL. HARRY R. MELONE

17.       SOLDIER’S HYMNS BY AMERICAN TRAIT SOCIETY

18.       WORLD’S WAR EVENTS (WWI)-3 VOL. –F. REYNOLDS & A. CHURCHILL

19.       THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS & A CHRISTMAS CAROL

20.       LITTLE BLACK SAMBO – ETC. RAND MCNALLY –PUB. 1925

21.       MAX ET MORITZ - GUILIELMI BUSCH IN LATIN

22.       PINOCCIO – C. COLLODI - 1ST. ED

23.       LOT OF THREE CHILDRENS BOOKS - 1930’S

24.       LOT OF 5 CHILDRENS BOOKS - 1930’S-40’S

25.       LOT OF 6 CHILDREN’S STORIES- 1920’S – 1930’S

26.       LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND – 1941 WINSOR MCCAY

27.       LOT OF RAND MCNALLY CHILDREN’S BOOKS -20’S-30’S

28.       LOT OF 3 CHILDREN’S BOOKS

29.      3 CHILDREN’S BOOKS

30.      6 RAND MCNALLY CHILDREN’S BOOKS -20’S – 30’S  

31.      LOT OF 4 CHILDRENS BOOKS

32.      3 RAGGEDY ANNE BOOKS – JOHNNY GRUELLE -1940

33.      3 CHILDREN’S BOOKS

34.      LOT OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS

35.      LOT OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS

36.      A CHRISTMAS CAROL BY CHARLES DICKENS  

37.     LIFE & LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAY

38.     COUNTRY MOUSE BY LOUIOSE ANDREWS KENT

39.     DANIEL BOONE “THE PIONEER OF KENTUCKY”

40.     CITIZEN BIRD –ILLUSTRATED BY LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES - 1897

41.     STATE OF NEW YORK MEMORIAM - THEODORE ROSSEVELT 

42.     OUR NATIVE BIRDS & BIRD OF THE BUSH -1890’S

43.     BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA BY JACOB H. STUDER

44.     LOT OF 3 PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS ( HARDING, MADISON & MCKINLEY)

45.     ARCH MERRILL ( STAGECOACH TOWNS & THE WHITE WOMAN & HER VALLEY)

46.       MARK OF SENECA BASIN BY HAZEL R. LANGDALE

47.       LOT OF 5 NOVELS W/ DUST JACKETS

48.       OF MICE AND MEN – JOHN STEINBECK

49.       GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY - HAROLD N. FOWLER

50.      STANDARD SEAMANSHIP FOR THE MERCHANT SERVICE –FELIX RIESENBERG

51.       ANIMAL FARM BY GEORGE ORWELL

52.       THE MINDS OF BILLY MILLIGAN BY DANIEL KEYES

53.       THE BLACK ROBE BY THOMAS B. COSTAIN

54.       THE SCENTS OF EDEN -A NARITIVE OF THE SPICE TRADE –CHARLES CORN

55.       YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN – THOMAS WOLFE

56.       CONSTANCE HOLME –THE THINGS WHICH BELONG & THE LONELY PLOUGH

57.       STAIR BUILDING, MADE EASY – 1901

58.       HOME WORKSHOP MANUAL - ARTHUR WAKELING

59.       MEAT BUYER’S GUIDE FOR MEAT CUTTERS POSTERS

60.       EARLY HURON-NEUTRAL SAND KNOLL SITES IN WESTERN NY

61.       WIGWAM & WARPATH- BIOS OF FAMOUS INDIAN CHEIFS ETC

62.       PITCHER STORY BOOK OF PETER PAN

63.       BUILDERS OF SYRACUSE -1940 and more.

Accessories: 2 Very Beautiful Vertical Hand Painted & Leaded Stained Glass Jeweled Windows, Rare Original Mayo Cut Plug Rolly Polly “Brownie” Tobacco Tin in Quite Nice Condition, Excellent C. W. Davis Cranberry Picker, Wonderful Early Polychrome Paint Decorated Redware Folk Art Pottery Chicken Still Bank w/ Handle, Despatch Oven Co. Ovens Clock Trade Sign in Cast Iron, Early Unusual Metal Sword, 3 Nice Champlevé Table Lamps, Oriental Carpets, Folk Art Wooden Straight Razor, Wooden String Inlaid Still Bank, Great Cast Iron Owl Mechanical Bank in As Found Condition, Early Oak Page Seeds Adv. Box w/Seed Packets, Scarce Candlestick Telephone w/ Scissors Wall Mount Rack, Early Wall Hanging Telephone w/ Rare Metal Desk Shelf w/ Accompanying 1916 Phone Book,  Early Candlestick Phone Cabinet, Neat Mid Century Hanging Pay Phone w/ 3 Coin Slots, Neat Childs Candlestick Telephone, Neat Unusual Gear Driven Recording Device in Brass Case, Neat Salesman Sample of Vinyl Car Seats – unusual item, Neat Tin Lawn Chickens, Copper ware, Chalk Ware Standing Rabbit, E. & J.B “Birdie” Metal Spoon Warmer, Pr. NuArt Metal Pirate Bookends, Pr. of Pompeian Bronze Paul Herzel Standing Nudes Bookends, Early Carpenters Chest w/ Several Sliding Covered Drawers, Early Brass Ended Carpenter’s Level, Copperware Skillets and Pots, Nice Pairpoint Tilting Hot Water Pitcher in Stand, Pr. of Detailed Bronze Fighting Roosters, Concertina, Early Concertone Trumpet- Made in Czechoslovakia in Original Case, Nice Metal Figural Statue of Pirate, Nice Swing Handled Pantry Box, Early Wooden Child’s Sled w/ Old Red Paint w/Metal Runners & Hand Rails, Neat Railroad Signal Post Lamp, Railroad Watering Can, Neat Pr. of Early Wooden Roller Skates, Early Rare Unusual Hand Operated Metal Skein Winder w/ Bell to Indicate End of Skein, Unusual Cast Iron Voss Heart Shaped Waffle Iron w/ stand, Heart Shaped Candle Sconce, Pink Depression Oil Finger Lamp, Wooden Mortar & Pestle, Bongo Monkey Japanese Tin Battery Operated Toy in Box, Cast Iron Toy Canon, Tin Wind Up Chein Drummer Boy, Early Child’s Cast Iron Stove- Pretty Complete w/Pots & Pans & Early Photo of Child Playing w/ Stove, Matador & Bull Wall Plaque, Early Bilt Right Interlocking Puzzle, Unusual Figural Toothpick, Unusual Groundometer in Oak Case, US Military Leather Pistol Holster in Nice Condition, Ship’s Flag, Unusual Gray Stripped 2 color Home Spun Blanket, Primitive Wooden 6 Compartment Tote Tray, Early Pr. of Wooden Roller Skates, Miniature Lane Jewelry Boxes, Adjustable Brass Bookends,  Early Wooden Table Top Butter Churn, Copper Boiler,  Child’s Wicker Chair, Marx Windup Pluto, Lead Soldiers, USA Tin Dump Truck Toy, Hubley Kiddie Toy Folding Wing Airplane, Tonka Cement Truck Toy, Early Sailor Boy Doll w/ Damage to head, Metal Pepsi 6 Pack Carrier, Wooden Coffee Grinder& more.

Auctioneer’s Notes: It is suggested that the buyer inspect the merchandise before bidding. If at a distance, please inquire about items that may be of interest to you and whether they are available for shipping. Or otherwise, you bid at our own risk. Items are sold AS / ARE with NO returns. Good attempts are made to call Issues about every item that may have them and point this out to the bidder in the descriptions below the photo of the item on Marathon Auction Sales’s Hibid site. PLEASE take the time to read these descriptions before you place your bids.  No responsibility is taken for any omissions of items details. Please Read the Auction Details before You Place your Bids.

Preview on Request by calling 1-607-849- 4200 or 607-849-6305 or by email at [email protected]. -15% Buyer’s Premium, Credit Cards (Visa, M/C or Discover) for all On-Line bids unless you are local – Credit Cards, Cash or Good Check for local buyers. Please note: Marathon Auction Sales process Credit Card Buyers through “Square .com”.  The card no. you place with Hibid to register to bid at auction will not automatically be used to pay for your purchases. Each Bidder must contact me via Phone (607-849-4200) or Email ([email protected]) at the close of the auction to arrange payment. Payments for purchases are handled by Marathon Auction Sales.

        Shipping is available for smaller items. Furniture items cannot be shipped by Marathon Auction Sales. If purchases of furniture are made that need to be shipped, it is your responsibility as the buyer, to arrange shipping for these items.  Email shipping requests for doubtful items (Large Lamps & Clocks w/ Glass, Artwork, Excessive Amounts of Glassware, Large Stoneware Items etc.), Local Pickup of Items scheduled for the two days following the auction (Monday & Tuesday) from 12 Noon to 5 PM. There is a slight 10 dollars or less, fee charged for packaging & handling for each package. Items can be combined to save you money. Shipping is done “IN HOUSE” to save customers money. So, please be patient as this takes time. Other arrangements can be made.

            Jerry Wilcox: Auctioneer & Owner/Manager  

 1-607-849-4200

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Bids at: Marathonauction.hibid.com