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Shop a large selection of 190+ lots that include BISQUE DOLLS AND BODY PARTS: Armand Marseille; 390, 370, Floradora, AM COD 93. Handwerck. S+H 1079, 1279. Kopplesdorf. Pansy. Special. OMB S+H. MODERN, COLLECTIBLE DOLLS: Sasha. Lenci. Shirley Temple. Dionne. 1950’s Alexander/Cissy. Lawton. American Girl. Toni. F+B. Native American. Artist. K. Kruse. Gotz Phillip Heath. Kish. Ginny. Hoyer. Byer’s Choice. BARBIE Family Dolls and Cases: 1962 Austin Healey; 1962 Dream House. Bodies, Parts, Clothing. The auction continues with LIV, MOXIE, BLYTHE, Oren Village, Tonner, Gene, Wilde Imagination, J. Douglas James, BJD, My Scene, BRATZ,  Polly Pocket, Dawn, Fashion Royalty. Monster High. Poppy Parker, Integrity. Accessories include doll hats, wigs, books, stands and clothing. Dolls with wardrobes. Miniatures, paper dolls, STEIFF, toys, and Kersa puppets add to the variety in this auction.

Shop this sale filled with a wide range of household items to choose from. Highlights include a selection of vintage and primitive pieces such as blowtorches, lanterns, soldering irons, wheel barrow, cabbage slicer table, wagon, copper kitchenwares, a carnival wheel, and a painted folk art box/trunk. Waterford crystal, art glass, Polish pottery, a Rookwood vase, and Bone China dinnerware are offered. Historical ephemera, stamps and books. A David Shaw barometer, Foo Dog garden statuary, Hermes scarves, and a vintage accordion are other featured lots.

Find a wide variety of postcards, books & ephemera in this interesting collection that covers a wide breadth of subject matter & types of each featured entity. POSTCARDS: 40+ lots, containing thousands of postcards, encompassing many subjects from all periods. Included are, local cards, topicals, real photos, U. S. and foreign views, illustrated, holidays, greetings, comics, and others, many large lots. BOOKS & EPHEMERA: 150+ lots, Including, first, limited, signed and collector’s editions, leather bound, sets, classics, decorative bindings, advertising items, trade cards, Bibles, scrap books, ledger & account books, color plates, prints, engravings, magazines, newspapers, periodicals, manuscript, illustrated weeklies, bound volumes, sheet music, documents, deeds, many autographed books, photographs, geographies, atlases, maps, Dime novels, plus many other types of ephemera, many large lots and groupings. SUBJECTS INCLUDE: Children, natural history, Civil War, literature, American Indians, Americana, military, Wizard of Oz, expositions, automobiles, railroads, sporting, movies, religion, PA History, big game hunting, fashion, poetry, politics, photography, local history, holidays, exploration, travel, art, rare book reference and more.

Alderfer's Train auction contains HO and O gauge trains that include locomotives and tenders, pre-war, tankers, flatcars, passenger cars, boxcars, and cabooses from makers Lionel, American Flyer, Bachman, Athearn, and a few selections by Marx, many retaining their original boxes. Railway models include Reading, B&O, Santa Fe, DT&I, and Southern Pacific. Railroad lanterns and switch signals along with set accessories are also offered.

Alderfer Auction is proud to present the lifelong Single Owner Collection of Bob and Peg Parks. Part 2 includes over 250+ lots of Murano glass, Art Deco desk trays and glass fruit baskets, lamps and clocks, French and Czech peacock lamps, slag glass lamps, art and furniture. Highlights include Wilkinson and Bradley and Hubbard Slag glass lamps, paintings by Melville Stark, Earl Poole, Thomas Bartholomew Bailey Griffin and Victor Shearer. Fine furniture of ornately carved animalier motifs mostly comprised of display cabinets and center tables.

Shop works of art by 19th, 20th & 21st Century artists working in a variety of mediums including oil, watercolor, pastel & mixed media. Listed artists include Albert Kotin (1907 - 1980), Richard Rogers (1903 - 1967), Ray Overpeck (Born 1933), Charles W., Jr. Hargens (1893 - 1997), Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955), John Fulton Folinsbee (1892 - 1972) and Joseph Pennell (1857 - 1926). There are also nicely presented prints and lithographs by Frank C (Franklin) McCarthy, Don Shoffner, Joan Miro and Peter Sculthorpe. New to the Alderfer stage is Bucks County artist Pearl Mintzer. Her works are bright, colorful and full of whimsy, surely to brighten any room in your house! Rounding out this sale are an assortment of landscapes, seascapes and abstracts. This is a great auction for the first time art buyer!

Inundated with designer names, silver shines in the spotlight from granulated earrings by Michael Dawkins, and beads by Pandora, to a Caviar smoky quartz ring and earrings set. Find a cuff from Winterthur, a clover ladybug pin by David Andersen, sterling utensils, an envelope sealer and even a bird pin and acorn sugar tongs by Georg Jensen. Tiffany & Co. expands it's silver repertoire of necklaces, bracelets, and pins, into the gold realm with a pair of amber earrings. Gold watches in 14k and 18k dazzle with Deco and diamonds. Hamiltons, Wittnauer and Bucherer just skim the surface. From costume jewelry and a Judith Leiber wallet, the collection encompasses novelty items, coins, pearls, cameos and gemstones, including a stunning emerald stickpin. There is so much to select from and so many more names unmentioned here!

Alderfer’s welcomes you to take a look at this month's furniture sale. Offerings include a console table by Henredon, Victorian marble-top tables and a Chinese Alter Table. Of special note is a child’s three-legged chair by woodworking William Bradley and a wonderful pier mirror by Friedman Brothers for the Historic Natchez Foundation (Mississippi). For anyone with a book collection, be sure to check out the barrister selection! You won’t want to miss this sale.

Alderfer Auction is proud to present the lifelong Single Owner Collection of Bob and Peg Parks. Part 3 includes close to 100 lots of TV lamps and other assorted pottery. The Parks Collection of TV lamps was an integral part of “TV Lamps to Light the World” identification and value guide with multiple examples of the collection being listed and photographed in the publication. The auction includes pieces by Krom, Lane, Haeger, Maddux and Claes. Part 3 of the collection also has a variety of art deco animals by Royal Hickman, Haeger and other fine makers.