On-Site Personal Property Auction

Bob & Sallie Connelly will conduct a Personal Property Auction on site at 42 Fairview Avenue, Binghamton, NY 13904 on Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 10:00 am with a preview at 9:00 am. 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 the slideshow below and in an AuctionZip Gallery.

 

This auction, for the Estate of Gail Dombosky, includes a reverse painted Art Deco lamp; a 9' x 17' Saurok rug and 2 other rugs; furniture including a mahogany secretary and a Victorian settee, 3 chests of drawers, an early stenciled doll cradle, and a corner Whatnot; postcard and photo albums;; 500 paperbacks and other books; costume jewelry; a large assortment of china & glasses; 40 pieces of adolescent Edwardian Whites; Endicott Johnson factory photos and other photographs; 2 Indian baskets; a collection of harmonicas; and Scottish Terrier bookends, dated 1929, Hummel.

Additional details, photos, and directions are available in the auction brochure (PDF: 510 KB).

On the same day and in the same location, Bob and Sallie Connelly will auction at 11:00 am the Real Estate consisting of a 2-story 4-bedroom, 2-bath home on a 40 X 103 plot with detached garage. In move-in condition.

Antiques and Collectibles Auction

Bob & Sallie Connelly will conduct an Antiques & Collectibles Auction at the Showplace in Binghamton on Sunday April 7, 2013 at 10:00 am with a preview at 9:00 am. The auction has items from several Estates and includes an Art Deco Black Moor statue, clocks, quilts, cut glass, books and furniture. 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 the slideshow below and in an AuctionZip Gallery.

 

This auction features a life sized Art Deco Black Moor statue, clocks, including a Ball Standard, Cleveland, an oak New Haven Weight Driven Regulator, an E.N. Welch Hanging Eclipse, an Ansonia Crystal Regulator, an Ingraham walnut mantle, Warwick, and a Rainbow China Case; cut glass, including a lamp, a 5-piece lemonade set, a trumpet vase, bowls, and an inkwell; furniture, including a queen size Gothic Revival walnut bed, circa 1855, a Chippendale Mirror with gesso eagle; a small pine blanket chest, and a Pembroke table with X stretcher; artwork, including African masks, paintings, bisque figurines, a Loetz vase, a bronze of Bear after Fish, a bronze stag, and a figure of Roman Warrior and Musketeer; household items, including a Sterling Silver Art Nouveau hand mirror, a pair of forged candle lanterns, 2 small bowls, Roseville Clematis and Apple Blossom, a candle box, a stoneware jug with cobalt, and 4 quilts; and miscellaneous items, including several sets of sleigh bells, a collection of scales, including a Fairbanks Feed Scale, badges and medals, a restored brass National Cash Register, Halloween items, a cast iron turkey bank, and a horse weathervane.

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.

Guns And German & U.S. Military Memorabilia Auction

Bob & Sallie Connelly will conduct a Guns And German & U.S. Military Memorabilia Inventoried Auction at the Showplace in Binghamton on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 10:00 am with a previews at 8:00 am and on Saturday, April 26 from 5:00-8:00 pm.

We are selling two major collections: the Estate of Robert (Bob) E. Doering an internationally known collector of German World War II memorabilia, and items from the Estate of Earl Steinbrecher, which were found in a trunk in his attic. One of the more unusual items in this sale is the armband of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister from 1938 until 1945, who was executed after the Nuremberg trials.

The auction comprises over 500 lots in the following order of sale, with approximate starting times:
10:00 Guns, 48 lots
10:45 Books, 65 lots
11:45 Military Memorabilia, 354 lots
Intermittently: Documents and Paper, 34 lots

Click for a slideshow of the featured items.

Selling AS IS without reserve, with a 12% Buyer's Premium, are Long Guns, including Winchester Model 1864, 71, 1873, 1892, 94 and 1895, Browning, Stevens, Remington, Marlin and Colt Lightning 22; Books, including over 70 reference books, some out of print, such as Exploring The Dress Daggers of the German Army by Thomas T. Wittmann, Uniforms & Traditions of the Luftwaffe, Vol II by John R. Angolia & Adolf Schlicht, and Reichpaper: A Guide to Civil and Paramilitary Identification and Membership Documents of the Third Reich, Vol I by Bruce Eric Kipp, autographed by author; Military Memorabilia, including 16 Swords, such as SS, Luftwaffe, Naval Officer, and Samurai, 26 Daggers and Bayonets, such as Naval and Army Officer's Dress, SS, SA, RAD, and Luftwaffe, and Badges and Metals, such as War Merit Crosses, Luftwaffe Badges, Luftwaffe Squadron Clasps, Naval Badges, Army Crosses and Badges and Assorted Commemoratives and Sport Badges and Metals; and Documents and Papers, including the document for Iron Cross 1st class 1939, Oberfeldwebel Christian Reisser, Gefechtsstand 20 Dezbr 1944, Document for Pilot School, Oberfeldwebel Christian Reisser, Flugzeugkührefschule, A/B 113 Brünn, Wien, 25 Februar 1941, and the Document for Pilot Gefreiten Christian Reisser Berlin 27 Juli, 1937.

Auction Lots
Category	Contents	Images
Guns		All 48 lots
Books		All 65 lots
Memorabilia		1-24 25-49 50-74 75-99 100-124 125-149 150-174 175-199 200-224 225-249 250-274 275-299 300-324 325-354
Documents		All 34 lots

Auction Brochures
Additional details, photos, directions and the order of sale are available in the four PDF format auction brochures which include directions, terms, lots, and the order of sale: guns brochure (26 kb), books brochure (39 kb), memorabilia brochure (93 kb), and documents and paper brochure (25 kb).

A paper catalog is also available, and can be purchased at the door for $5.00 by itself or with a post sale list of realized prices for $6.00. The catalog and post sale list may also be purchased by mail for $7.00.

Absentee and Phone Bids
Absentee and phone bids must be submitted by 5:00 pm, Friday, April 25, 2008, and will only be accepted if pre-registered using our online bid form. Phone bidders are urged to submit a backup a backup absentee bid in case we cannot reach you at the time of the sale.

Post Sale List
A post sale list of prices for the Guns And German & U.S. Military Memorabilia Auction is available in PDF format [16 KB]. Post Sale List