Yes, You read correctly - Open Two Days - Wednesday & Saturday - we're skipping over & Closed Thursday & Friday

Folks, some are COVID loosening up, our business follows the science COVID is a terrible condition, so if a bunch of folks are at the home straight up 10 am Saturday,  Expect a Long Delayed wait entry time, we limit how many people are inside the home at same time, if you choose to wait outside dress for weather or arrive later, when possibly wait time won't be as long.

Saturday, March 27, 10 am - 3 pm CST

Furniture, interesting smalls, artwork, glassware, sewing, tools, antiques, collectibles, retro items, medical adaptive equipment, household supplies, a digger's delight basement!,  Tasty Surprises & More, Photos & Item Listing Details Coming,... Mask Required,

Dr. Stanley & Mary Louise Sroka Estate,  enjoyed this home they built in 1965. Dr. Sroka for 50 years served generations of high school students who came to his Highland office for freshman year physicals. Mary Lou earned a master's degree from Purdue. Expect a range of life's accumulation of 56 years in same home.

• Living Room Furniture, 2 Loveseats, Ethan Allen, John M. Smyth, Thomasville quality brands
• Antique round oak table
• Ethan Allen Dining room heavy solid wood set, nutmeg table w/5 chairs & 1 leaf, matching display cabinet
• Wood bookcases
• End tables, lamp tables
• Several table lamps with nice finials, 1 lamp weighed out at 14 pounds
• Glass covers on most furniture has been cut out & tailored, serpentined to the piece's layout, some of the most designed glass tops
  
• 3 Piece Wood Bedroom set, highboy, armoire, 2 nightstands - Buy one, Buy All
• One twin bed
• 30+ Artwork, Artist Signatures by northern Indiana locally known artists - Dorothy Budzik (b 1921-2004) of Hessville & East Chicago,  Lacare Art League member she has optional signatures D Budzik, Dot or Dottie Budzik; K Nedinger 1966 "Cottage in the Dunes," Thelma Venema; framed & signed photographs
• Singer sewing machine table top type, sewing supplies & some fabric scraps
• Glassware, milk glass, crystal decor
• Waterford & other crystal clocks
• Primitives, cross cut saw, pitch fork
• A bunch of burlap seed sacks w/advertising
• 30+ Wood fruit crates w/advertising labels, peach, apple, etc.
• Vintage small metal furniture, rolling tray, step stools
• A lot of little neat retro, vintage smalls, collectibles
• Antique iron coin bank
• Violin, silver color clarinet w/cases
• Tasco telescope, small microscope in original box
• 3+ Old suitcases, doctor's leather bag
• Boy Scouts items, older child toy guns & holsters, toy bow & arrow
• Vintage golf bag w/a couple clubs, hockey stick, older wood baseball bat
• Digger's Delight Basement, Treasure Hunters - BYO bring your own bags & totes
• Books, ephemera
• Stamps collection
• Medical school ephemera
• 62 Comic  books, many 12 cent price
• Vinyl LP records albums (under 50 in quantity) includes a 2 record training set "Psychiatric Anxiety Indicators"
• Magnavox portable record player
• Vintage office equipment, black calculator
• Blue Smith Corona manual typewriter
• Indiana University memorabilia including a wartime era 1944 Arbutus yearbook
• Costume jewelry, a few purses
• Marshall Field's Boxes & plastic department store bags w/advertising - today closed - Goldblatts, Venture, Comey,  others
• Women's clothes, coats, most size 12, medium
• Medical adaptive supplies & equipment, 2 wheelchairs (At a future Estate home we have 2 electric chair lifts which accommodate 2 separate staircases, please call/Email me NOW if you're interested to purchase one or both)
• Garage items, wood ladders, lawn & garden tools, rakes, etc.
• 3 Large floor carpets - measures approx. 17 x 11 1/2, 17 x 11 & 12 1/2 x 8 1/2, plus one long hallway runner ( runner can only be removed after estate sale completed)
• Household supplies, kitchenware, Tasty Surprises & More, ...

Estate Tag Sale, where you come inside heated home, browse, shop and buy at your leisure. Diana's photo look trademark Benjamin Franklin 6 inch paper bill is for size comparison only, it isn't the price.

Diana Cook Estates, Auctions & Appraisals and staff has been on a COVID hiatus for many months. It's good to start venturing out again & seeing each and everyone of you who we hope are in good spirits and healthy for this 2021!

Let Us get the Estate Home cleared out To-the-Walls so the home looks Best for real estate sale. Don’t Lift a finger.

Watch for Upcoming 2021 Estate Sales in Hobart & Portage.

COVID 19 Note - Mask Required, Quantity of shoppers inside the home at same time will be limited & controlled. We follow CDC guidelines and all local/state/federal mandates. Please keep good distance from each other. Even if you are feeling good, but you believe you've possibly, even remotely, been in a Covid or flu exposure setting recently during this past month, don't make any Estate Home a spreader event as an asymptomatic carrier, it's better to stay put at home. Let's work together with health safety in mind. You can always call or Email Diana Cook Auctions & Estates with your interest in specific items you'd love to buy. We will work with you on your purchases at a safe telephone distance. We are doing things a bit differently because of COVID. There will be NO entry order sign in sheet which keeps all of you from touching the same notebook paper. So you need to line up distantly and order up on your own. If you attend on opening day afternoon bring your patience with you as entry into the home will be staggered and slow. We might work out a cell phone system where we could possibly call you approximately 15 minutes before your expected entry opportunity.  On limited & specific items we've marked BUY IT NOW.  Buy Now expires Saturday, March 20 6 pm CST. Call 219-763-3741 SOON (No Text). To be fair to your time, any photos posted up on this site 48 hours prior to opening day WILL physically be inside the home and available for purchase to the 1st Estatesaler who walks through the door and to the 4th, 5th, 10th, 50th shopper if previous shoppers don't snag it.

Payment TERMS:  CASH, Credit or debit Card w/3% process fee. Pre-Approved Good Check (call at least 3 days prior to sale start for check approval). Mask Required. We don't open early. Be prepared, due to any home's hallway layout, there can be staggered and delayed entry into the home on Opening Day, it just depends on how slow foot traffic flow moves along in the home's layout. Bring your patience with you for this home entry process. We'll get you inside as soon as we can with safety in mind. No warranties or guarantees. You must rely on your own personal inspection. Not responsible for accidents or injury. Always watch your step & your head. We don't carry. Bring your own competent adult labor who will carefully move items out of the home and off the property. Removal on SALE DAY.  Make sure to watch when moving items that floors aren't scratched and keep distance from walls so they're not touched. Please respect neighbors & not block mail boxes or driveways, or park so far off road to ruffle or rut neighbor's grass. This particular street is a One-Way north, but isn't clearly marked. Keep northbound in mind when you leave, turn left & loop around a block to get back to Ridge Rd./U.S. 6. Please don't flip cigarette butts in yard, street, driveway or really anywhere, only in receptacle. 

Estates, Appraisals & Auctions by Diana Cook, 35 years experience in this business:
  * Estate (tag) Sale Management
  * Auction Management
  * Business & Commercial Auctions & Appraisals
  * Home & Estate Clean Outs & Cash Buy Outs *
  * Paying Cash for Antiques Today *
* Written Appraisal & Inventory Reports for: *
          -- Estate Taxes, federal or state, Estate Administration
          -- Insurance Replacement Needs
          -- Moving Insurance
          -- Family/Heir Division Values
          -- Donation Value
          -- Divorce Settlement
          -- Bankruptcy

Email:    Ladydi@megsinet.net

          To get on our Early Bird Email notice list with detailed advanced information on future Estate Sales, Email above and in subject line type "Add Me to List." ( This doesn't mean writing someone's name on entry order sheet- that's your activity to write down your name on my list that I personally put out.)

             For Email additions and changes Email above and in subject line type: Estate Notice List. We do not share your Email address with others. When your Email changes give both your old address and new address. IF you are not receiving emails from us, double check that the above Email address is not being blocked out by your system, or we sometimes get replies that your "mailbox is full" which means, unfortunately our sale notices don't get through to you.

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