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AS SEEN ON TRAVEL CHANNEL/ROCKABILLY AUCTION CO
Listing ID#: 29050
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Commerce, GA 30529 |
Sale Dates and Times |
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Saturday Jun 28, 2014 Completed |
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Estate Sale |
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ROCKABILLY AUCTION COMPANY Contact: Kurt Kilgore Phone: 770-652-8075 Email: rockabillyauction@gmail.com Website: rockabillyauction.com EstateSale.com ID#: 1419 View company information and listings |
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We accept cash, check, Visa, Mastercard, Am. Ex.
10% buyer's premium for cash or check, 13% buyer's premium for Visa or Mastercard. We do accept absentee bids and phone bids. Please call 770-652-8075 for more info. Purchased items must be removed on day of sale or on scheduled pick-up day. |
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"ANNUAL ADVERTISING, AMERICANA & NOSTALGIA AUCTION" One of our best auctions of the year focusing on Rare, Unique, & Hard to find collectibles. This auction will include Advertising signs, clocks, thermometers, country store, general store, gas station, gas & oil, gas pumps, soda pop machines & coolers, neons, civil war, military, vintage toys, railroad collectibles, special furniture pieces, & Hundreds of unique item! Please check back for updates. Hundreds of photos will be added. We are accepting consignments of QUALITY vintage, unique, rare & hard to find items for this sale. We auction complete collections & estates or just one item If you have items you would like to consign please call Kurt at 770-652-8075. Featured in this auction will be a Beautiful Gentleman's Dresser. This dresser is from the Historic Maxwell House Hotel room 45. President Roosevelt's comment that a cup of coffee he drank was "good to the last drop" was used as the advertising slogan for Maxwell House coffee, which was served at & named after the hotel. The Maxwell House Hotel began construction in 1859 and opened in 1869 and was the largest hotel in Nashville with many Famous guests including 7 Presidents; Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, & Woodrow Wilson. Other famous guest included; Jane Addams, 1800's actress Sarah Bernhardt, William Jennings Bryan, Enrico Caruso, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Annie Oakley, William Sydney Porter, (O Henry), General Tom Thumb, Cornelius Vanderbilt, & George Westinghouse. The Hotel was destroyed by fire on Christmas night 1961. Prior to the hotel's official opening it served as a Civil War barracks, prison, & hospital. The first national meeting of the Ku Klux Klan took place at the hotel in 1867. This is an amazing opportunity to own a true piece of history and a wonderful piece of quality furniture. |
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