The Collection of Stephen & Linda Fitts
An Amazing Auction of Country Store, Advertising, Americana, & Toys
Thursday November 16th at 10am.
Preview Wednesday November 15th Noon to 6pm or 8am Day of Sale.

Partial listing to include

Porcelain signs: 3 color Coca Cola, Spear Head Tobacco, B.L. Cut Plug Tobacco, North Star Refridgerators, Bond Bread, Connecticut State Fishing Sign, Blackstone Cigar, Old Dutch Cleanser, Sunshine Biscuits, Blue Ribbon Malt Extract, DeLaval Cream Seperators, Wonder Bread, Sunlight Soap, Double Sided Gulf Authorized Dealer.

Assorted Painted Enamel Signs, Tin Tackers, and Push Plates: Lee Work Clothing sign, Excellent Oh Boy Gum tin tacker, Dukes Mixture tin Tacker, Warwick’s Club Gingerr Ale sign, Lee Tires sign, Heart O Orange, Chesterfield, Choc Soda, more, Push Plates to include Canada Dry, Squirt Soda, Regal Orange Soda, Spur Soda, and Frings Cigars. 

Country Store Displays & Cases: Tin Putnam Dye cabinet, Dr. Scholls display cabinet, Star spool cabinet, Milward’s Needles cabinet, tin litho Eveready Batteries display, Snapfill Fountain Pen display case, Utilitee Mens Garters display case, Midgies 5 Cent Chocolate display, Moore Push Pins display, Eveready Daylo glass case, DeLaval Separator Oil display, Humphreys Specifics medicine cabinet, Lash’s Orangeade cooler dispenser, full coller display case by Manhattan Show Case Company, tin litho Sparrow Empress Chocolates display, table top oak display cases, several other good tin litho and glass advertising displays. NOS easel back cardboard Gillette razor displays, easel back Nabisco, coin-op Hershey dispenser, Blue Tip Match dispenser, Alka Seltzer fountain dispenser. 

Over 50 lots of pressed steel toys: Ranging  primarily from the 1940’s through the 1960’s with an emphasis on construction vehicles.  Toys by Nylint, Model, Tonka, Wyandotte, Structo, Keystone, and Marx. Graders, loaders, trucks, and car haulers. Allis Chalmers tractors, Marx streamlined Speed King tin wind up, Pluto tin wind up, GI Joe K9 tin wind up, lots of early children’s games and puzzles. 

Many Good Cobalt Decorated Jugs and Crocks with Birds and Flowers: Norton, VT, Ottman Bros NY, Rogers and Co. Boston, Edmonds & Co, West Troy Pottery NY, New York Stoneware Co, Somerset Pottery Works, and many more. Fine Selection of Early Pottery: Mocha pitcher with earthwoem and cats eye, Mocha pepper pot, Many good  spongeware and yelloware pitchers and bowls, covered butter, decorated cooler, Majolica lot, more.

Two Antique Rifles: 1864 Triplett & Scott Repeating Rifle and an 1859 Sharps Navy, both in very good condition. Civil War era U.S. marked bayonet, German Bayonet.

Early American & Primitive Country Items: Wonderful 19th Century Apothecary, Mocha decorated pitcher and pepper pot, excellent decorated document box, oval miniature portrait of a gentleman, painted firkin, pantry boxes, lollypop butter mold, lots of kitchen primitives, cutting boards, butter molds, early wrought iron kitchen tools, baskets including a fine miniature split ash basket, much more. Awesome set of painted milk glass pharmacy signs.

Ephemera and Photography: 2 post mortem daguerreotypes, large photo of “The only original Buster Brown at Grove City, PA”, collection of early country store photographs, lot of dags and tintypes, generous lots of advertising related ephemera.

Other Items to include: 3 coffee grinders, 6 early cast iron banks, 2 cast iron airdale doorstops, pharmacy show globes, cast iron flower doorstops, sewing smalls, generous lots of advertising tins, coffee tins, and tobacco tins, country store jars, tinware, vintage holiday lots.

TERMS: All Items Sold AS IS WHERE IS . 15% Buyers Premium. Cash , Check, Absentee, & Phone Bids Accepted. Auctioneer Leo Legare NH Lic# 2529, Joshua Gurley ME Lic#AR1358 Live at the Dover Elks Lodge. 282 Durham Road. Dover, NH. Preview online at www.gurleyauctions.com or call us at (207) 229- 0403