Collectibles Auction

Bob & Sallie Connelly will conduct a Collectibles Auction at the Showplace in Binghamton on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 6:00 pm with a preview at 5:00 pm. The auction includes toys, KKK collectibles, Victrolas and records, furniture, ephemera and accessories. All of the items in this auction are selling without reserve AS IS (No Refunds, No Returns) at a 10% buyers premium.

Photos of selected items are displayed in an AuctionZip Gallery and in the slideshow below.

In this auction are Toys, including over 500 Mint in Box or blister-packed items, 300 Star Wars pieces, including action figures in 3 sizes; X-Wing and B-Wing fighters; Millennium Falcons; 50 Star Trek pieces; and 15 Hess trucks; KKK, including Ku Klux Klan robe with Knights Cross patch and Ku Klux Klan shield with provenance tag and brass ID tag "KKK 1925,"carried by Charles Andrews in several parades in Binghamton, NY and Washington DC during the 1920's and 1930's; KKK record album, first ever produced, circa 1923-1925; KKK Member in Good Standing brass tag, with E. S. Youngs, 1923 on back; Victrolas, Records, including Victor Talking Machine Co. Victrola, floor model; Edison Victrola, floor model No. C250; Corona Victrola, portable; Columbia Gratonola Victrola, table top model, needs work; RCA Victor 70, cathedral style table top model; Victor floor model radio with phonograph; Motorola radio with microphone; box of radio tubes; hundreds of records including 3 boxes of cylinder rolls, Edison 78's, 33's and 45's; Furniture, including Heywood Wakefield 5-piece bedroom set and 6-piece dining room set; Arts and Crafts quarter sawn oak gate leg table; and cow hide domed top and flat top trunks; Ephemera and Accessories, including assortment of postcards including Tuck; group of photographs with cabinet cards, tintypes including 2 of Franklin Engine Co. Waverly, PA; framed photographs of famous people, some autographed and some with signatures on separate piece of paper and framed with photo including Tiny Tim, Marshall Wilder, Dorothy Tennaut Stanley, Tony Randall, Phil Brito, John Archer, and Freddy Bartholomew; framed & unframed prints and original art work; Watling penny horoscope & weight scale; over 100 books, 1800's and later; photographs of 1940's WNBF personalities; 100's of framed pictures; an 1880 liquor license, Boston.

Additional details, photos, and directions are available in the auction brochure (PDF: 261KB), which is also available in a slim version (123KB) without photos.

Absentee and phone bids for this auction can be submitted using the convenient bidform. Bidders must be pre-registered. First-time NYS tax exempt buyers must complete and submit NYS Resale Certificate ST-120.