Past Auctions

This Toys and Trains Auction features model trains, die-cast vehicles, model kits, and vintage toys with brands including Lionel, MTH RailKing, Tonka, Buddy L, Hess, Revell, Aurora, Lindberg, AMT, MPC, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Tyco, GI Joe, and Star Wars. Train offerings include Lionel locomotives, train sets, rolling stock, track, and transformers, along with MTH RailKing trains and HO scale train lots. Vehicle categories include Tonka trucks, Buddy L vehicles, Hess trucks, and die-cast cars from Matchbox and Hot Wheels. Model kits include Revell, Aurora, Lindberg, AMT, and MPC kits featuring aircraft, cars, boats, and military models. Additional toys include Tyco slot cars, GI Joe figures, Star Wars toys, Wresting collectibles, Steiff stuffed animals, and more. The catalog also includes board games, collecting cards, comic books, die-cast buses, and Coca-Cola themed vehicles. This auction offers a wide selection of trains, vehicles, model kits, and collectible toys across multiple brands and categories.

This Collectibles Auction features gembones, fossils, minerals, and natural history specimens across a wide range of categories. Gembones include agatized dinosaur bone pieces with polished cross-sections and raw fragments. Fossils include ammonites, trilobites, and mineralized specimens, offered as individual pieces and grouped lots. Minerals and crystals include quartz clusters, geodes, and crystal formations, along with polished stone pieces and display specimens. Geode halves and quartz points appear in multiple lots. Additional items include carved stone objects, decorative mineral pieces, and mixed natural history groupings combining fossils and minerals. Many lots are display-ready, including polished specimens, mounted fossils, and natural formations suitable for shelves and cabinets. With gembones, fossils, minerals, crystals, and carved stone items, this auction offers a strong selection of geological and natural history collectibles.

Alderfer Auction presents a wide assortment of firearm accessories, sporting goods, taxidermy, and militaria. Bid on a variety of scopes/optics, gunsmith tools, and firearms parts, assorted rifle and pistol magazines, gun safes, knives and blades with a nice selection of bayonets, firearm, civil war, and collectors books, reloading equipment, brass, bullets, primers, crossbows, and archery equipment. Also offered will be  white tail, and mule deer shoulder mounts, military helmets, uniforms, field gear, military, and commercial rifle stocks, and hardware, air rifles, and BB guns including a super rare Daisy #104 double barrel, fishing rods, reels, and tackle, assorted gun barrels, targets, rifle rests, and many cleaning, and shooting supplies.

Our April 28th Ammunition sale includes 1000’s of rounds ranging from the common everyday calibers like 22LR, 30-06, 308 Win, 44 Rem Mag, 9mm, 12Ga., 20Ga. 270 Win, 223 Rem, 300 Blackout, 40 S&W. Also offered will be military ammo in 30 Carbine, 30-06 on strippers and Enblocs, 5.56 on strippers, and loose, 8x56RS, 8x51 Lebel, 6.5 Carcano, 303 Brit, 7.65 Argentine, 9mm Largo, 7.62x39, 7.7 Jap, 30-40 Krag, 45 Auto and lots more, Bid on an assortment of heavy rifle calibers like 338 Lapua Mag, 300 Norma Mag and more.

Alderfer Auction presents another well-rounded firearms sale with a wide selection of Antique, Sporting, and collectible firearms, and high-grade optics. Handguns, including selections like the Beretta M9A3, Smith & Wesson 29-3, US Remington Rand 1911A1 US Army, Colt Jr. 25, Kimber Custom TLE/RL II, Ruger Blackhawk, Colt Combat Elite, Antique C Sharps First Model Pepperbox, Glock 19, and Springfield XD-40. Shotguns will include Browning Grade 6 Citori O/U with a complete set of sub-gauge inserts, Mossberg 930 SPX Semi Auto, Benelli I-12 Semi Auto, Beretta BL-3 O/U, Remington 870’s, Mossberg 500, Ithaca 37, Stevens 311 SxS, and many more. Rifles, including Remington 700 and 721, Ruger 10/22’s, Browning SA Takedown, Austrian Steyr M95/30, Springfield M1A, Calico M-900, Spanish M1916, Swiss K31, Browning A-Bolt II, Winchester 70 Classic, British Fazakerley No5MK1, Savage 99, Savage/Anschutz Mark 10B, Swedish Mausers, US IBM Corp M1 Carbine Paratrooper, Egyptian FN-49, US Smith Corona 03-A3, US Springfield Krags,  Weatherby Vanguard, US Springfield M1 Garand,  Very Rare Lakeside Machine BF1 Vindicator Belt fed Semi Automatic, Ruger Mini 14 & Mini 30, Remington 760, with many more being added. Antiques including a large collection from the early 1900s like Argentine 1891 (Early Short Handguard), Springfield Trap Doors, E.Hemming Pin Fire SxS, H Holland (Pre Holland And Holland) Pin Fire SxS, Manton Percussion SxS, Colt 1878 Hammer SxS,  T. Farmer Flintlock SxS, G W Pistor Schmalkalden Percussion Buck & Ball, James Webley (pre W&S) SxS, French St Etienne Flintlock SxS, D Egg Percussion Buck & Ball.

This Home and Décor Auction features a multi-consignor selection of Steiff plush animals, vintage Christmas decorations, children’s dolls and toys, antique ephemera, musical instruments, decorative household items and audio equipment. The selections include antique and vintage toys, Noma and Paramount vintage string lights and Jones Metal Products Candy Cane Candle lights, postcards, Victorian paper die-cuts, trad cards, advertising, travel postcards and Presidential Inauguration collections. Sterling pieces are available with complimenting silverplate serving items. A notable category in the catalog is musical instruments, with multiple harp instruments included. These harps are full-size string instruments and represent a distinct offering within the otherwise tableware-focused sale. Along with the musical instrument options, one can also add stereo amplifiers, turntables, stereo receivers and vintage reel-to-reel devices. This Home and Décor Auction offer a brand-focused selection of antique and vintage toys and holiday ware, musical instruments and audio equipment, providing both traditional and modern specialty pieces.

Alderfer Auction's April 23 Collectors sale features a broad variety of art, antiques, and novelty items. Asian works include, an Imperial tribute fan, Chinese porcelain, snuff bottles, alongside a selection of Japanese inro and fine cloisonné by makers such as Namikawa Yasuyuki and Miwa Tomisaburo. Fine art, includes oil paintings by Walter Emerson Baum, Tatiana M. Alexeeva, Philip Richardson Whitney, Robert Seufert, and Ray Overpeck. Novelty and collectible items include a 1957 Corvette, a Messerschmidt KR200, a National cash register, Brepsomy model cars, Mills slot machine, and Franklin Mint silver. Decorative arts standouts are a Jaeger-LaCoultre Marina Atmos clock and bronze sculptures. Furniture and rugs are represented as well, with a Renaissance Revival court cupboard, Martin Schreiner tall case clock, and a Persian Kashan carpet. Autographs of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sculptor Daniel Chester French, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, General Winfield Scott, General Benjamin Butler, Bing Crosby, military leaders and others. Historical items include National currency (1902 series), Colonial currency, Confederate currency, World War I recruiting poster, and a Vietnam war photograph archive.

This Jewelry Auction features gold jewelry, vintage pocket watches, wristwatches, and designer pieces across a wide range of styles and categories. Pocket watches include a 14k gold case Waltham 17 jewel example along with additional Elgin and Hamilton watches. Wristwatches include Omega and Seiko, along with grouped watch lots. Gold jewelry includes 10k and 14k necklaces, bracelets, rings, cufflinks, and pendants, including a gold Athena and Parthenon pendant and sapphire cufflinks.Designer and fashion jewelry includes pieces by Brighton, James Avery, Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Guess, and Chico’s. Native American jewelry includes Zuni and other stone-set silver pieces. Additional lots include Masonic rings, gemstone jewelry, rhinestone pins, and grouped costume jewelry assortments. This auction offers a wide selection of watches, gold and silver jewelry, and decorative pieces across multiple collecting categories.

Our upcoming March Fine Art Auction will feature a strong selection of American paintings, including works by Edward Redfield, Fern I. Coppedge, Daniel Garber, John Folinsbee, George William Sotter, Walter E. Baum, and William Francis Taylor. These artists, closely associated with the New Hope School and Pennsylvania Impressionism, continue to draw serious collector interest and institutional attention. A rare Qing dynasty imperial tribute fan from the Qianlong period (1736-1795), produced in the renowned Guangzhou workshops will also be offered. It is one of only a handful of such court-quality fans known to survive today. Read more about this remarkable piece on our blog page. Silver collectors will find two remarkable Tiffany flatware sets in the Chrysanthemum Vermeil and San Lorenzo patterns, alongside an Aesthetic Movement sterling tea and coffee service. Autographs from the Gibbs collection including; Presidents Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, and Ulysses S. Grant. Other autographs include; Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, Grover Cleveland Alexander, and Nikola Tesla. World War II archive related to an 8th Army Air Force B-17 gunner. Other offerings include a 5.29 carat platinum diamond ring, Cartier 3 carat diamond platinum brooch, Breitling Chronomat gold & steel automatic chronograph, Imperial Symphonion music box, Louis Vuitton travel trunk, and bronze sculptures.