Selling the livelong collection of Roy & Ruth Horner

Roy & Ruth lived on the old homestead their entire married life and collected quite alot over the years. The Estate needs to be settled so the family has decided to have a Public Auction to help this process along.

It is our pleasure to do the auction as Roy was the first bidder number ever given out for an auction conducted by Mike Peterson Auction Service over 30+ years ago!!

This will be an old fashioned walk along sell it as we find it auction. 3 barns and a house full of items to be sold!

Here is the 9/22 Horner Estate Auction isting as wrote by a Family member

Just when you thought the Northeast was tapped out of primitive farm lore, along comes the dispersal of Ruth and Roy Horner’s life-long collection of everything they remembered their parents using and everything that interested their minds and imaginations on their farm. Like the dispersal of a time capsule. Our family welcomes you to join us on September 29^th:  Antique wardrobe with attached chest of drawers; Ethan Allen chest and shelving unit; Ethan Allen chest of drawers; large, multi-drawer dresser; mid-century chest of drawers; small modern chest of drawers; two metal cabinets, one w/lock and key; antique table painted red and black; floral stuffed chair; contemporary coffee table and end tables; antique and/or vintage iron bed frames; round coffee table; antique chest of drawers with large oval mirror; large industrial desk; antiqued green chest with secret drawer;  cast iron pots, one with gate mark, one Griswold; Griswold pipe flues (multiple sizes), East Lake pre-1900 spoon-cut bed with tall headboard and carved side boards, and matching chest with mirror and lamp or candle stations (exceptional if one is doing a period bedroom – very nice - appraised); two-piece desk with letter slots; multiple vintage radios; antique, large, unusual framed photograph of a little girl; 14K Bible pendant, opens to multiple pages of the Lord’s prayer; vintage Verplex (Essex, Connecticut) rooster-lamp, cast frame only; painted chalk rooster; tin-cut chicken and rooster wall art; military shirts; WWI ammo or foot locker (?); large, vintage Mickey-Spillane-like green file cabinet; kitchenware; 78 RPM records; antique enamelware; antique or vintage typewriter; multiple antique clothing irons, SAD style; antique Oak Mission style round dining table; bookcase; gorgeous-country primitive jelly cupboard; metal toy iron boards; antique horse pull toy; vintage wooden runner snow sleds, vintage snow skis, primitive wooden foot locker; multiple primitive, wooden cabinets; wooden bench; panes of glass; knickknacks, some vintage; multiple wash-tubs.

Penn cast iron gas forge (I could find absolutely no information on this forge, so it may be rare); second gas forge; blacksmith tools; anvil, (broken but still usable); cross cut or felling saws; huge circular saws; multiple scythe snaths; many antique hand tools; many contemporary hand tools, some heavy duty; chains, hooks and connectors, some heavy duty; nails, bolts and nuts; advertising pieces (very nice 37”x10” Briggs and Stratton fluorescent sign and embedded clock, works); multiple wooden boxes with and without labeling; reclaimed lumber, flooring and multiple doors and windows from the houses that were on Foote Avenue before the arterial; large antique hay wagon; ensilage cart; corn planter, multiple horse drawn and single wheel hand plows, planters and cultivators; multiple grinding wheels, various sizes; many farm and garden related shovels and pitchforks…including triple and double tined hay forks; grain scoops; three vintage saddles; trunks; Church pew…disassembled; large sliding door with metal plaque that reads “Hays’ Bread” (Oil City, PA?); multiple half wooden wheels; 1965 Volkswagen Bug speedometer; antique barn oil lanterns; antique glass house oil lamps; book collection from Charlotte School (?); milk crates; two boxes filled with keyed, combination locks; white enamel table top, great for deer; incubator; multiple milk cans; tools boxes; heavy duty work tables; sheet metal/tinsmith brakes; heavy lawn roller; one or two wooden tool cupboards; large, round, metal, revolving tool bin – multi-level; vintage, long, (30 ft?) electric hay escalator, works; large plow blade; lubricant cans; large, vintage cash register (rough shape, but still interesting); 2 compressors; horseshoes; 4 Pepsi bottles; hubcaps; vintage table saw ; Ellis Micro Dynameter cabinet (1923 – “health machine”) Many more historic and unusual artifacts, a window into yesteryear.