This Home & Decor auction features a broad range of categories including silver, books, ceramics, jewelry, Asian antiques, photography, and miscellaneous collectibles. The selection showcases historical artifacts, decorative arts, and vintage items of varied interest. This includes objects in the Silver & Metalware category, a 19th-century silverplate figural napkin ring, a Sheffield silverplate tea set with tray, and Gorham sterling silver serving pieces. These items reflect both utilitarian and ornamental silver traditions from Britain and the United States.

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Bid online now through Thursday, May 29th at alderferauction.com. This auction will begin closing at 8 PM at a rate of 5 lots per minute. Active bidding will be auto-extended 3 minutes for each lot once it begins to close.

To get yourself educated on a variety of products there are many reference and historical books & ephemera, including early 20th-century and antique volumes such as The Old Silver of American Churches by E. Alfred Jones (1913), a group of auction catalogs from Butterfield & Butterfield, and bound ephemera related to maritime topics and antiquarian studies.

Notable items in porcelain and ceramics is a Qing era blue and white export porcelain dinner plate decorated with polychrome arms of Meriton, a group of Minton porcelain dinnerware, and early 20th-century demitasse sets. Asian Antiques includes four Chinese snuff bottles of agate, black glass, and inside-painted glass with decorative motifs, alongside a set of handmade wood cabinets in an Asian style and a group of Japanese Satsuma and Kutani pottery.

For those who collect photography & historic images there are Victorian-era daguerreotype portraits in folding frames, tintypes, and early photographic keepsakes—many housed in original frames or cases—providing a view into 19th-century visual documentation.

In the toys and models category of the sale there is  a boxed LGB train set with track and transformer, a group of slot car tracks and transformer, vintage die-cast vehicles, and GI Joe dolls and accessories reflecting mid-20th-century toy manufacturing. To round out this sale we have a variety of  vintage sewing kits, primitives, Coca-Cola and Budweiser collectibles, a 2008 MLB All-Star Game baseball signed by Derek Jeter and other Yankees and Mets players, a dollhouse and miniatures and more. This auction’s wide selection of categories and specific named items presents an opportunity to explore varied collecting interests, spanning historical documentation, decorative arts, and personal memorabilia.

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