We are pleased to announce this "Once in a Lifetime" Estate Sale by DFW Estate Liquidators!  This sale takes place in Godley, TX in an original rustic - Ranch Style home set way back off the road through a winding path of true Texas Hill Country scenery complete with Cactus, Cedar & Wild Flowers. This sale has some Historical Components with original vintage items from the United States House of Representatives. Another uncommon find are the "original" Palmer Chrisman paintings!  This sale yields many incredible treasures. Make plans to attend this incredible sale!  If you're not familiar with Godley, TX, It is considered part of the DFW Metroplex in Johnson County, about 9 miles NW of Cleburne.  Please check back as we get closer to the sale dates for updated info & additional photo's!

Below is a partial list of what's available. As always, No pre-sales. Security on-site. Video Monitoring In-use. Visa, Mastercard & Discover accepted. Carry-out & Loading assistance is always provided.  

ATTENTION: STARTING SUNDAY MORNING AT 10AM SHARP, ALL ITEMS $200.00 & UNDER WILL BE 75% OFF! ALL ITEMS OVER $200.00 WILL AND MUST BE NEGOTIATED!

Please note: The entrance gate to the property will open Sunday at 9am sharp. If you arrive before 9am, please line up in your vehicle outside of the gate. Once we open the gate, you will be able to pull ahead to the designated parking area. Once parked, you can proceed to line up at the front door. The sale will promptly start at 10am.  

Please look forward to: Native American Artifacts & Collectibles, Historical autographs, Political Memorabilia, Original Artwork, Antique Persian & Oriental Rugs, Colonial era antiques, Militaria, Extensive book collection, Carved figurines & sculptures, Heavily carved antique furniture, MCM, Fine Minton China, Crystal & Silver, Antique Pottery, Fenton glass, Italian ceramics & porcelain, Wedgwood, Depression glass, Native American pottery, Taxidermy buffalo, Antique Asian artwork, Bronze statuary, Old Knives, Historical Maps, Remington & Russell Prints, Western Art, Buffalo themed collectibles, Tiger oak furniture, Vintage kitchenalia, Old toys, Unique brass beds, Hill Country Furniture,  Dug Arrowheads, Antique wall pockets, Unique vintage decor & lamps, Framed art, Oil paintings, Stained glass, Murano art glass, Cast iron collectibles, Hand painted Bavarian porcelain, Colonial pewter, Steamer trunks, Copper decor, Rare - Original WW1 poster, Lalique, Steuben Glass, Fostoria, Vintage pens including Montblanc, Designer eye wear, Vintage clothing from Neiman Marcus, Cowboy hats, Primitive antiques, MCM, Dolls, Quilts, Vintage Pyrex, Waterford, Antique Spurs, Branding Irons, Crystal stemware & decanters, Old advertising tins, Campaign buttons, Russian Lacquer, Vintage designer costume jewelry, Gold & Silver jewelry, Sterling formals, Bayonet, Marbles, Old paper documents, Vintage postcards & magazines, Record albums, Stamps, Coins, Lawyers bookcase, Folding deck chairs, Generac generator, Flat Screen TV, Vintage electronics, Antique Linens, Japanese woodblock prints, Longhorn mount, Walking canes, Cast iron collectibles, Jasperware, Miele front loading washer & dryer, Cast iron umbrella stand, Crockery, Old maps, Gene Autry autograph and much more!  This is just the tip of the iceberg!     

For our Book Aficionado's, Here's a list of what will be present. 

Old Books  -  1950 or older

Frontier Life or Tales of the South-Western Border by Francis Hardman, no date

Familiar Wild flowers , F Edward Hulme,  has colored plates, written date 1881

Ornamental Fruit trees,  eberhard Abjornson, 1929

All about flowering bulbs, T A Weston,  1931

Memories of the life of William Wirt, John P Kennedy, 1856

Life of Fremont, Francis C woodworth, 1856

Wildflowers and state flowers of north America, Lydia northrup Gilbert, 1930

A garden party, annie w franchot, 1914

Bluthen und Perlen, deutscher dichtung,  1870

Canaries and cage birds, Rosslyn Mannering, no date

The language and poetrty of Flowers, no author,Marcus Ward and co., 1875, with colored plates

Old Fashioned Flowers, Maurice Maeterlinck, 1905

Flower Fables, Alcott, 1854

The Story of cotton, Eugene Clyde Brooks, 1911

Christian home life, American Tract Society publisher,  no date

The Earth we live on, Clara Belle Baker, 1939

Life of John Wesley, Rev. b. w.  bond, 1885

The Tattler, July 1709, says Vol 3 on it,  poor condition

Poetical works of Coolidge, Shelley and Keats, 1846,  poor condition

The bird study book,  gilbert pearson, 1919

Shakespeare’s wild flowers fairy lore, gardens, herbs, gathers of simples and bee lore, Eleanour Sinclair rohde, no date, says rare in pencil,  Medici society

Golden Plover and other birds, Arthur a allen, 1939

The life of Washington, Washington Irving, vol 3 no date, fair condition

The new testament,  1886

Down the garden path,  Beverley Nichols, 1944

How does your garden grow, Beverley Nichols and 3 other authors, 1935

Fresh Fields, John Burroughs, 1899, poor condition

Why birds sing, Jacques delamain, 1932

In the beauty of meadow and mountain, Charles koke woods, 1913

Familiar wild flowers, f Edward Hulme, colored plates, no date

How to know the ferns, frances Theodora parsons, 1899

Life and deeds of general Sherman, Henry Davenport Northrup, no date, cover in poor condition

New Geographies, text book, Ralph S. Tarr and Frank M McMurray, 1920

Life and voyages of Christopher Columbus, Washington Irving, 1858, poor condition

Texas poems, Ida V. Jarvis, 1893

Middlemarch, George Elliott, no date, printed in front December 1919

The life of George Washington, published by James Crissy, 1838, not the same as the other one

Seaside and wayside, Juila McNair Wright, 1901

Old and New Testament Bible, Baptist Sunday school board and associated book stores

Indian Why Stories, Frank b Linderman, 1915

 Ranch life and the hunting trail,  Theodore Roosevelt, 1901

Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas, Elizabeth B. Custer, 1887

 Life among the Indians,  George Catlin, no date,  but a school board stamp of 1897

The Indian races of north and south America, Charles De Wolf Brownell, 1864

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Nov. 1891 to april 1892.  Century Company NY and T Fisher Unwin  London.

Thrilling adventures among the Indians, John Frost, 1849

Boots and Saddles, Elizabeth B. Custer, 1885

Buffalo days, Col. Homer W. wheeler, 1925

Our wild Indians 33 years personal experience among the red men of the great west, Col Richard Irving Dodge, 1882

Audobon the naturalist, Crosby and Nichols, 1856

Book Trails, Through the Wildwood.   This is a multi-volume set.   Shepard and Lawrence, 1928.

The Constitutions of the Several State of the Union and the United States, Published by AS Barnes and Company, 1854

Beauty from Bulbs, Printing house of John Scheepers, 1929

Cactus Culture for Amateurs,   William Watson,  no date, no cover

Water-lilies, Henry S. Conard and Henri Hus, 1907

The little kitchen garden, edited by Francis King, 1926

The little garden for little money, Kate L. Brewster, 1924

Pioneering with wildflowers, George D. Aiken, 1935

Ten thousand garden questions answered by 15 experts, edited by F. F. Rockwell, 1944

Book of old world gardens, edited by Alfred H. Hyatt, 1913

Our most popular trees, Lydia Northrup Gilbert, 1929

Our ferns in their haunts, Willard Nelson Clute, 1901

Housekeeping in Old Virginia, edited by Marian Cabell Tyree, 1879

Jefferson, Albert J. nock, 1926

Ben Hur, Lou. Wallace, 1901

The deerslayer, J. Fenamore Cooper, no date

Life begins at Forty, walter B. Pitkin, 1932

The American standard of perfection, all recognized varieties of fowls,  American Poultry association, 1905

Inez, a tale of the Alamo, Augusta j. Evans, no date, poor condition

Shirley Temple’s favorite poems, Saalfield publishing, NY,  mcmxxxvi (roman numeral)

Antedotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln’s stories, edited j.B. McClure, 1879

The new Hudson Shakespere, Julius Caesar,  1908

The Bright Promise, Richard Sherman, 1947

B.F.’s Daughter, John P. Marquand, 1946

This side of innocence, Taylor Caldwell, 1946

Rolf in the Woods, Ernest Thompson Seton, 1925

The household history of the United States and its’ people, Edward Eggleston, 1888

Riders of the Purple sage, Zane Grey, 1912, looks like a first edition

Old Jules, Mari Sandoz, 1935

Commercial Poultry Raising, H. Armstrong Roberts, 1920

Will Rogers, P.J. O’brien,  1935

Rose in Bloom, Louisa M. Alcott, 1918

The Harvester, Gene Stratton-Porter, 1912

Eight Cousins, Louisa M Alcott,   1927

Mrs. Mike, story of Katherine mary Flannagan.   Benedict and Nancy Freedman, 1947

John Marsh, Pioneer.  George D. Lyman, 1930

Ideal Marriage, T.H. H. Van de Velde, 1930

How to grow roses, Robert Pyle and J. Horace MacFarland, and G. A.  Stevens, 1930

Kootenai why Stories, Frank V. Linderman, 1926

Wildman of the west, Note that say it may be 1893, title page missing

Cow Range and Hunting trail, Malcolm S. MacKay, 1925

The range dwellers, B.M. Bower, poor condition,  1907

The ferns of Great Britain, Anne Pratt, no date

Our native Ferns, vol 1 and 2,  E. J. Lowe,  color plates, London,  no date

Century Magazine, Life of Lincoln, vol XXXIX,  there are 4 volumes of these.  There are 2 series of volume numbers.   An example would be old:    36,  new series is 14.   Another on is 34 and 12.

The lure of the garden, Hildegarde Hawthorne, 1911

Beautiful flowers and how to grow them, Horace J. Wright and Walter P. Wright, no date

Foundations of American great culture, T.V. Munson, 1909

The hearth and eagle, Anya Seton, 1948

Diamonds from Scott, De Wolf and Fisk, Boston,   a book on poetry, no date, maybe same as one below

Violets from Tennyson, De Wolf and Fisk, 1898

Vines and how to grown them,  William C. McCollom, 1914

More gardening talks, C. H. Middleton, 1936

Gardening making and keeping, Hugh Findlay, 1932

Home pictures, American tract society, no date

Gardening with Peat Moss, F.F. Rockwell, 1935

Field book of insects, Frank E. Lutz, 1918

Herbalist and Herb doctor, Indiana botanic gardens, Hammond, Indiana, 1932. Have  Other magazines and books by these people.

The stories mother nature told her children, Jane Andrews, 1891.   May be valuable.

Bulfinch’s mythology, Doubleday,  illustrated, 1948,

All about Gardening, Vol. 2 of 6, british, no author, Warwick House, London, preface dated 1871

Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1904

Carnations and Pinks, J.H. Cook, James Douglas, J. F. McLeod, London. Color plates  No date

Popular gardening.  Casell and Co., edited collection.  Vol. 3, no dates.

Flower gardening, H.S. Adams, 1913

Henry and the bird’s nest, American Sunday school union, Philadelphia, 1852

No title small bird book.   First part is missing but has small watercolors

Practical arithmetic, Joseph Ray, 1885

A Little book of climbing plants, Alfred C. Hottes, 1933

Hymns of the Methodist Episcipal Church south, Nashville, TN, 1892

The Carnation Book, H.H. Thomas, no date.  Funk and Wagnalls.

My summer in a garden.  Charles Dudley Warner, 1895

Making a rock garden, H.S. Adams, 1912

Social Life, first 50 pages missing, in poor shape.   Came from Thorndale.

The new  practical reference library, vol 5, editors, 1915.  Looks like forerunner of encyclopedia.

Gardens and gardening 1950, edited by F.A. Mercer and Roy Hay, 1950.

German book of anatomy, in german.  Has plants, mushrooms, looks like biology textbook.  Has foldouts of human body.    No date

Flowers of the field, Rev. C.A. Johns, 1907

Gardening for pleasure,  Peter Henderson, 1897, poor condition

The ferns of great Britain, has color illustrations, 1855

A little Maryland garden, Helen Ash Hayes, 1909

Wood and Garden, Gertrude Jekyll, 1901

The scented garden, Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, no date, british, Medici Society

Pinks: selection and cultivation, F.R. McQuown, Carnation Society, 1955

Bulb growing for amateurs, H.H. Thomas, 1915

Flowers shown to the Children, Janet Harvey Kelman, no date, color illustrations, british

Gardens shown to the Children, Janet Harvey Kelman, 32 color plates, no date, maybe around 1924

The War Garden Victorious, Charles Lathrop Pack, 1919

The garden of Pinks, L.H. Bailey, 1938

Gardening, vol. 5 of 8, How plants are trained to work for man, Luther Burbank,  1921

Useful Plants, vol. 6 of 8, Luther Burbank, 1921

Gardening with Brains, Henry T. Finck, 1922

Carnations for Amateurs, J.L. Gibson, 1947

Gardening in the southwest, Mrs. Gross R. Scruggs and Margaret Scruggs, 1932

Annuals or flowers which can be grown from seed in one year, Leonard Sutton, 1931

Garden Flowers, The Nature Library, Robert M. McCurdy, 1926, color illustrations

The Housekeeper’s Handbook of Cleaning, Sarah J. MacLeod, 1915

The Eagle and the dove,  V. Sackville-West, 1944

The years in my herb garden, Helen M. Fox,  1953

How to Cook a wolf,  M.F.K. Fisher, 1944

The Complete Garden, Albert D. Taylor, 9 color plates, 1921

Houses and Gardens, Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1925, very large book

Gardens for small country houses, Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Lawrence Weaver, 1927

Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott, edition 1830, old

Little women, Louisa May Alcott, 1934, missing cover

American Cookery Book, Mrs. J. C. Croly (Jenny June), 1878

Best stories, The Childs own way series, Margorie  Hardy, 1929

Webster Modern dictionary, 1905, Lard and Lee’s

All to myself, Wilbur D. Nesbit, 1914, poem

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