ROBERT “BOBBY” DICKERSHEID COLLECTION

OF LANCASTER COUNTY ANTIQUES,

PRIMITIVES & COLLECTIBLES

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2025 AT 9:00 A.M.

 

Preview Times – Friday, June 13 from 2:00 P.M. thru 5:00 P.M. and Saturday, June 14 from 7:00 A.M.

*The following is just a very general list of items to be sold. Photos representing the entire auction

will be posted on our website www.horstauction.com on Friday, June 13.

 

Sale to be held at the Horst Auction Center, 50 Durlach Rd., Ephrata, PA 17522

(The corner of Rt. 322 & Durlach Rd., approx. 2 ½ miles west of Ephrata)

ANTIQUE FURNITURE – ADAM KENDIG PAINT DECORATED BLANKET CHEST & Set of Kitchen Chairs; Windsor Arm Chair; Spinning Wheel Chair; Plank Seat Chairs; VICTORIAN COTTAGE – Drop Center Dresser; Dropfront Desk/Bookcase; Arch Top & Flat Trunks; MAHOGANY 3 SECTION BARRISTER’S BOOKCASE; OAK – 3 DOOR BOOKCASE; SMALL CORNER CHINA CLOSET; BOWED GLASS CHINA CLOSET; Princess Slant Front Desk; Late Punched Tin Pie Safe; Barroom Chair; Small Open Shelf; Repro Bowed Glass China Closet; DEPRESSION – Dresser; Nightstand; Library Table/Workbench; MODERN FURNITURE – 4 Pc. Pine Double Bedroom Set; Cedar Blanket Chest; Pine Entertainment Cabinet; Oak Dining Room Table; Various Small Tables & Stands.

TOBACCO MEMORABILIA – (7) DEMUTH SNUFF JARS (Various Sizes & Styles Including a Large Cobalt Decorated One); SEVERAL STORE STYLE NIPPERS (“Havana”, “New Comet” with Lighter & Others); SMALL CIGAR FACTORY WORKBENCH; OUTSTANDING LARGE COLLECTION OF LOCAL CIGAR FACTORY BOXES (Early Wooden, Tin, Cardboard, Etc.); Wooden Cigar Molds; Tobacco & Cigarette Tins; Humidors; Box & Cigar Labels; Box Openers; Ashtrays; Adv Match Holders; Cast Iron Press & Much More!

POSTCARDS & TRADE ADV. CARDS – OUTSTANDING LARGE COLLECTION OF LANCASTER COUNTY PHOTO POSTCARDS (Many Villages & Towns, Historic Structures & Vehicles, Many in Large Albums); Albums of Seasonal & Holiday Postcards; LG ASSORTMENT OF LOCAL TRADE ADV. CARDS (Many in Albums); Valentines & Greeting Cards & Much More!

BOOKS, DOCUMENTS & PAPER EPHEMERA – MANY EARLY LEATHER BOUND IMPRINTS (Ephrata & Others, Several with Fraktur Bookplates); 1774 HENRY STIEGEL MANHEIM INDENTURE (Signed & Wax Seal Henry & Elizabeth Stiegel); 1805 Robert Coleman Rapho Township Indenture & Other Deeds & Indentures; John Zimmerman Pennsylvania Civil War Discharge; 1860 PA Order of Junior Sons of America; Framed “1814 New Ephrata” Map; LARGE ASSORTMENT OF LOCAL ADVERTISING CALENDARS; FRAMED LARGE PUBLIC SALE BILLS (1871 John J Eberly Schoeneck, 1923 Reuben Fry Warwick Twp); Many Unframed Public Sale Bills; LARGE COLLECTION OF LOCAL BILLHEADS, DOCUMENTS & ADVERTISING; Large Broadsides; LARGE COLLECTION OF VINTAGE FACTORY PHOTOS (Many Cigar Factory Interior & Exterior Views, Other Factories, Stores, Etc.); Military Photo Albums; AUTOMOTIVE RELATED ADVERTISING EPHEMERA; John Butzer Studebaker Calendar; Vintage Advertising Posters & Signs; Reference Books; Local Histories & Genealogies.

ARTWORK – (2) LARGE HARRY BOOK OIL PAINTINGS (1959 & 67); Delores Hackenberger Painting; O’Mahoney Watercolors; LARGE ASSORTMENT OF FRAKTUR BOOKPLATES & SMALL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS; Hand Colored Printed Taufscheins; Ben Austrian Chick Print; 1955 L.E. Hickman Watercolor Painting; Mildred Kratz Print; Large Assortment of Framed Depression Era Prints; Mike Wise Framed Print; Mary Horst Folk Art Painting; Circus Posters.

PAINTED WOODEN SIGNS – “Royer’s Shoes”; “R.E. Mellinger Cigar Manufacturer”; “Camp Silver Belle”; “Farmer’s Market Entrance”; Painted Indiantown Mennonite Church Arrows; Primitive “Corn, Tomatoes…” & Others.

METAL SIGNS – Marlboro Neon Sign; Large “Mail Pouch” Porcelain Thermometer; Eggs Price Sign; Several Tin & Porcelain Adv. Signs; Reproduction Metal Signs.

WOODENWARE – Carved Canes & Walking Sticks; Shaking Fork; Rake; Drying Rack; Miniature Washtub & Wringer; Primitive Crutches; Cremo Wooden Crate & Other Adv. Crates & Boxes; Several Rolling Shoe Racks; Late Folk Art Whirligig.

TOYS – Bing Crosby Child’s Juke Box/Record Player; NICE MINIATURE “REBER WAGON” (Signed Berks Co., Centerport, PA); WELLS FARGO & OVERLAND STAGE CO STAGECOACH & Other Wooden Toys; Painted Game Wheel; SEVERAL C. MESSNER TIN TOYS (Tow Truck, Stake Body Truck, Bus); Borden’s Milk Wagon.

METALWARE – Blue Agate Basins & Pans; Antique & Vintage Tinware & Cast Iron.

COINS – Framed 20^th Century US Type Set; Several Books of Pennies & Nickels; Assorted Other Early Coins.

CHINA, GLASSWARE & POTTERY – Hound Handled Pitcher; Local Store Plates; H.W. Bard Jug; Other Stoneware Crocks & Jugs; Repro Decorated Stoneware; Pink Glass Epergne; Colored Glassware; Collection of Art Glass Vases & Figures; Antique Bottles & Jars; EPHRATA MOUNTAIN WATER & DIAMOND SPRINGS BOTTLES; ADV. LOCAL SHOT GLASSES.

LINENS & FABRICS – Antique Quilts & Comforters; Late Needlework Sampler; Local Lodge Badges & Pins (Lincoln, Denver, Hopeland); Several Pair of Button Baby Shoes.

TOOLS & GARAGE ITEMS – TORO POWER SHIFT 824 SNOWBLOWER (Like New); Hand & Garden Tools; Large Amount of Box Lots & Many Other Items to Be Sold!  Accepted Payments: Cash or PA Check.  Visa, Mastercard, Discover and Debit Card with 3% Fee.  No Out of State Checks Without Prior Approval.                                                                      Sale For:

ROBERT “BOBBY” DICKERSHEID ESTATE