Jim Brown Estate Auction

May 9 and May 10, 2025, starts at 9 AM each day

2990 State Route 125 Bethel Ohio 45106

9 AM Friday MAY 9, 2025  AUCTION

7 Bells: Steam engine bell, OS Bell & Co Hillsboro, Ohio(2), Federal Company, #24 Yoke bell, Big bell w/yoke 

Gem well pump, Bethel Oh match box with phone #1, large variety of advertisement items including oil bottles and  cans, lots of milk bottles some marked Hamersville, Winchester, Walter Bee and Son dairy, Clermont Hill Farm, Adamson Dairy Products, Smiths Dairy, Geo Kuntz Dairy, Amelia Dairy and more  lots of local names, brass tags, milk cans, wooden butter churn, small replica J D wagons, 50th anniversary Bethel Ohio First National bank ruler, Cinti/Georgetown/Portsmouth RR ruler, 2 dz metal egg shipping crate w/address and stamp, coffee mills, several miniature advertising anvils, several original paintings of Jim's tools, strap of 21 sleigh bells, school bells, old wooden work benches, school books with Jim Brown name in them, collector Toy tractors, cars, equipment, revolving bolt cabinet/hdwe store piece, original antique hdwe catalogs, Clermont, Brown, Adams county and more atlases, history of Clermont County w/illustrations, Farm Implement book, unusual scales, coach maker tools, churn, CG&P lantern and padlocks, large travelers wheels, lots of scales, Dazey  glass churn #80, 2 gal crock, other crocks, regulator wall clock, mantle clock, collection of walking stick/canes, Indianapolis wood wall telephone, candle molds, flat irons, cedar blanket chest, Rayo lamp, Farm Implement News, Thorress mfg, signed wall pictures, OVAM pictures from several years, matched ruby red lamps,  handmade quilt, Pete Rose 1991 Boys and Girls Club print, 1999 Boomer Esiason print Boys and Girls Club, Cranberry glass, Cinti Sellew pewter tea pot, Clermont County Bantam Agriculture Horticulture stamps,  bullet pencils, coins, stamp collection from the 50 states, lots of local paper items, Louisville Ky tobacco cutter John Fihzer & Bros, (National) cash register, wooden spice chest, 1950's Doepke road graders model toys, S rolltop oak desk, oak secretary , wooden pedestal table with matching china cabinet, beds, quilts, Grant Sesquirentennial Dollar(Bethel, Ohio), war ration books 

Outbuildings/Blacksmith Shop: 4 Anvils (30", 25", 22", 11") 4 swage block, cone anvil, many anvil hardies, Springboro OH wagon jack, blacksmith tools, blacksmith forge with hood and blower(forge has never been fired), blacksmith totes, wagon jacks, approx 60 blacksmith hammers, approx 60 blacksmith tongs, horse drawn items: mower, cultivator, disc, J D jolt wagon, wheat drills, Stephens fertilizer spreader, garden planters, corn planters (Oliver, Cole, Farmer's Friend), corn hanger, buggy wheels, crate vise, 2 large wood framed wheel lathe, large treadle wood lathe, wooden washing machines, approx 16 pcs, unusual wooden dog treadle mill (very good condition)  2 John Deere lawn mowers X500 and X320 AND LOTS MORE!!

9 AM    MAY 10, 2025       SATURDAY AUCTION

TOOLS, TOOLS AND MORE TOOLS!

1862 S. Boggess muzzle loading rifle full stock (believed to be made in Pinhook/Wiggonsville Ohio by John Boggess in his gunshop that opened in 1828

Ohio Tool Co. Centerwheel Ivory-tipped Plow Plane, Stanley #1 Sweetheart Plane

Barnes #3 Wood Lathe, #1, #2 and #7 Scroll Saws, Unusual Barnes Rip Saw, Barnes 

Former, 2 Seneca Falls Scroll Saws, Companion wood lathe with scroll saw attachment, mortising machine

Axe Collection: Many Embossed Axes and Hatchets, incl. Black Raven, Diamond Edge and others, several Goose-wing axes, Many Broadaxes, Bill poster hammer, Double and Triple-Claw Hammers, Saw makers Hammers, File-Makers Hammers, Over 150 Axes and Hammers 

Stanley Tools: #1 plane, 2x #2 planes, #85 scraper plane, #45 in box, other 45s, 71 in box, 98 & 99, #10, #10 1/2,  62 low angle

Stanley Bedrocks: 605, 605 1/2, 606, 608. #20, 113, 37 Jenny, 101 1/2, 79, Razor edge spokeshave, folding rules, and more 

Cincinnati Tools: Panther Head Saw and many other Cinti saws, Scott Mitre Plane, over 200 Cinti Molding planes by different makers (largest collection known to exist) many Cinti broadaxes and drawknives

Large Amount of Early Cooper's Tools: Howells, Crozes, Sun Planes, adzes, braces, very large coopers' joiners, much more

Misc: Irwin Cylinder Bit Case and other Irwin sets of Bits, Wooden pitch forks, buck saws, hand corn sheller, wooden sled, Bourbon whiskey stamps, work benches, Primitive work bench (large), hand corn shellers, wooden shoes and tools to make them, flooring gauges, wood taps and dies, shaving horse, boxes of bits, Irwin cylinder bitcase, other Irwin bit sets, mortise chisels, spokeshaves, sugar devils, Ivory folding rules, Steven fertilizer, potato cutter, several blacksmith tongs, blacksmith hammers

Tools: Ebony wood planes, rope winders, troughs for grinding wheels, several rope makers, grain testers, harness vises,  hand corn shellers, pit saws, Fcrate barn boring machines, 

tinner's tools, bluegrass strippers, pump log tools-full set, froes, cleavers, Conestoga jack and grease bucket, mitre jacks, many Davis ornate iron levels, Stratton levels, wooden levels, Helb RR level and many others, T-augers 1/2-3",  Baiver root cutter,  Poltree, several hog oilers, Ohio pony corn chopper, miniature planes and tools, lady leg calipers, Neal tool chest w/ full original contents, stonemason hammers, carpenter slicks, European type tool, large collection of tool reference books, 3 ft+ huge scissors, Hay Trolleys, several tractor seats, 2 John Deere lawn mowers X500, X320, small list of a large auction!

AUCTIONEER'S NOTE: several pieces marked Ohio Tool Co, WF&J Barnes, Seneca Falls, Stanley, New Rogers, New Era, Coopers. Over 3,000 pieces to be sold at 2 day auction!!  Jim collected tools for over 60 years.     

       Food Truck onsite:  Angela's Curbside Cuisine

PERSONAL PROPERTY TERMS: Announcements made auction day take precedence over any previous notification. ID required register for buyer’s number.  Payment made on auction day with cash or good check with proper I.D. All sold “as is, where is” with no guarantees. Prospective buyers should avail themselves the opportunity to make inspection of personal property prior to bidding.  All Property sells in "as is condition".  Our company is not responsible for accidents or loss of property.  

Owner:  Estate of James (Jim) Arthur Brown 

              Philip Brown Exec   Case#2025ES00042

              Patrick Gregory, Attorney for the Estate

Call……. Mike Brown Auctioneer/Agent  513-532-9366 

     Agent with Plum Tree Real Estate Marketing

Randy Dugan, Auctioneer

Mike Ames, Auctioneer

Mark Lail, Auctioneer

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