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Online! Always On Time! Over One Million Hits www.auctionactionnews.com Help Recycle, Buy Antiques! September 22, 2015 Vol. 21 No. 10 News Periodical Mailed on September 16 Fantastic Coca-Cola Cooler Brings $625 at Lyle Dirks Auction Article & Photos by Lyle Dirks On Saturday, August 22, Lyle Dirks held a huge auction for Kathy & Bob Marsh in Rock Falls, Illinois. There were 200 people in attendance from Illinois, Iowa & Wisconsin. With strong prices throughout the day, Kathy & Bob were very pleased with how the auction turned out. Continued on page 17 A cute Steiff Growler bear on wheels sold for $375. This nice Coca-Cola cooler Prince Castle square ice brought a high bid of $625. cream server brought $425. Forty-Three Years of Fun at the Massive Olmsted County Gold Rush Antique Show & Market Article & photos by Brian Maloney August 14th through the 16th were important dates in Rochester, Minnesota, for they marked the weekend of the massive Olmsted County Gold Rush Antique Show & Flea Market. Now in its forty-third season, Gold Rush fills the fifty-two-acre Olmstead County Fairgrounds with antiques and collectibles - often with well over 1,000 dealers. Show promoters Richard & Kae Townsend have been running Gold Rush for the past twenty-five seasons, but have a much-longer association with the venerable event. They were among the dozen-or-so dealers at the very first Gold Rush Show way back in the early 1970’s! Continued on pages 6, 7 & 8 A trio of mantiques from Toys for Boys: the restored Tokheim/ Chevrolet gas pump priced at $2,750, the as-is Wayne pump at $750, and the Coca-Cola bottle vendor at $700. 507-285-1243 My period furniture pick at Gems at Beanpot Antiques Thomas Rawson Antiques: this included this 43” Crestliner classic 1820’s Berks County, salesman’s sample aluminum Two vintage Coca-Cola pieces from Pennsylvania chest sporting its & wood boat ($2,750) and Frank’s Specialties: the 12” electric clock priced original paint, 50” in length & blue-enameled Karr toy stove at $340, the Fountain Service sign at $1,250. 929-858-9122 priced at $2,450. 319-364-8943 priced at $3,750. 608-385-3609 2 +&'& , 4 )3'"!++("/*) -$"./)/&,0"((&)*-/%"./ &#-)* 1#3"'.+* ,/1"- "("-. -$""(" /&*)*#)/&,0".*((" /&(". 4*((.40-)&/0-"4(..2-"4"2"(-3*-" ! ! )!'$("&"('"#% %! ,' *)'% INDIAN ARTIFACT SHOW October 4th ~ 8 am - 3 pm American Legion Hall 9054 Route U.S. 34 Yorkville, Illinois 70 TABLES OF DEALERS & DISPLAYS Sponsored by the Illinois State Archaeological Society Info: Ray Fraser 847-347-1719 or Duane Treest 630-385-2806 MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS St. Paul, Minnesota ELKHORN, WI Largest Minnesota Antique Event! SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 • 8-6 ANTIQUE FLEA MARKET SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 • 10-4 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Adm. $6 - FREE PARKING • Save $1.00 w/this ad OVER 500 INSIDE/OUTSIDE DEALERS DEALERS SPACE AVAILABLE OPENS 7 AM RAIN/SHINE INSIDE & OUT GATE $5.00• Free Parking • No Pets Show Location: Minnesota State Fairgrounds 651-771-3476 WALWORTH CO. FAIRGROUNDS Hwy. 11 1265 N. Snelling Ave St. Paul, MN 55119 612-961-3401 414-525-0820 www.nlpromotionsllc.com www.mnantiqueshows.com SEE YOU NEXT SEASON LAST SHOW OF THE SEASON! DON’T MISS IT! 3 "$"( %"# $!% $ % $ !# " ! $ '$'$&#$ ! % ! !!$$ %! !! % " % # ! #" % # #! % # ! :0540(3'#5!+/5#)'+)*5+/): 49 October 4 *#/59&"3+)*54508/" "'&*633+#. 1. #563	#. 1.6/	$9#110+/5.'/503%*#/%' Antiques McFarland Antiques Estate Sale • • Collectibles 5910 Main Street, McFarland, WI 53558 Contact Pat Bruden 608-246-1813 • Jewelry, Art Sale Conducted by Bethel Estate Sales, Madison, WI Pass out numbers at 8:00 am each day • Cash or Check ONLY NO credit cards • Treasures People are responsible for moving their own heavy items Phil & Mary Jo Olson are retiring. These long time antiquers are • Memorabilia selling the contents of their shop full of 3 floors of antiques for this sale. YES...It's time to SELL THE BUILDING...you can buy it, too!! • Records, Toys Located in the Historic Center of McFarland, between the two locations of the McFarland Historical Society, across from the Public • Tools, Books Library and the charming "McFarland House Cafe," original home of the village's namesake. One block from the Community Center. • Fancy Junque The possibilities are endless for this 3-story historic brick building! September 16-17 ~ 9 am to 4 pm 25% OFF Marked Prices (except marked “FIRM”) Milwaukee’s Premier September 23-24 ~ 9am to 4pm 40% OFF Marked Prices (except marked “FIRM”) Fall & Winter Indoor Flea Market September 30-October 1 ~ 9am to 4pm 50% OFF Marked Prices (except marked “FIRM”) FURNITURE... A LOT OF FURNITURE!.. all types and styles: CHAIRS...Sets, Singles, Rocking, Folding, Desk, Kitchen, etc. STATE FAIR PARK OH, SO MANY CHAIRS!! TABLES...parts, legs, tops, MANY leaves! Work Tables, Side Tables, End Tables, Dining Tables! 640 S 84TH STREET, WEST ALLIS, WISCONSIN Antique Post Office Sorting Table...Unique, useful, definitely a conversation piece, dated 1903. Beds; Trunks, ARCHITECTURAL... doors, shutters, windows, shelves; Typewriters; Chests; Children’s Furniture; Bookcases, Display Cases; Clothes Racks, folding; October 17th & 18th CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS; Smalls; Lamps; Mirrors; Crocks; Baskets; Lamps; Stereo Speakers; Toys & much more! STYLES include Victorian, Mid-Century Modern, Country, Shabby Sat. 9 am to 3 pm • Sun. 9 am to 2 pm Chic, and more. Many items already at BARGAIN PRICES! ITEMS waiting to be RE-PURPOSED....Use your Admission $5.00 creativity, paint, fabric, stencils, etc. For vendor information 262-366-1314 www.rummagenrarities.com 4 “Asparagus Man” Donations Keep Good Company 64th Fall Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Association Show Lends Assist to Friends of the Wisconsin Historical Society Oct. 2 & 3, 2015, Waukesha Article & photos by Debbie McArdle (Friends of the Wisconsin Historical Society) vided by the members of the Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Association. Anyone familiar with Wild Rose, Wisconsin, will remember it Berg's folk art created quite a stir at the February WADAantiques show, is as a tiny, picturesque town, smack dab in the middle of the state. If spurring other donors to come forth with incredible donations. Now the you ever traveled down County Highway K between 1947 and 1975, you “Asparagus Man” paintings are keeping good company with other worthy may have encountered the tiny one-bedroom farm home of Adam and objects; a circa 1830 Windsor rocker in original paint, scales, buggies, com- Anna Berg with signs “Odd Job Work” and “Asparagus” hanging on the memorative flow blue, spinning wheels and much more. clapboards. Adam had just retired as a Chicago cab driver in 1947 when On Oct. 2 & 3 in Waukesha the Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Association is he and Anna made Wild Rose their home, selling asparagus and charging again providing the Friends of the Wisconsin Historical Society with a free booth 10-cent admission to their art gallery to generate a small cash income. at the antiques show where volunteers will accept tax-deductible donations of He became known locally as the “Asparagus Man”. A self-taught folk antique and vintage items for the April 2016 auction. Tax deductible receipts artist, Berg believed isolation from the cultural mainstream allowed will be provided to each donor. In addition to the free booth space at the show, him to develop a technique to “carve” his paintings using the medium of WADA has provided their fourth grant to the Friends of the Wisconsin Historical oil. By adding multiple layers of oil paint over a period of years, he Society as founding & continuing sponsors of the “30th Star Benefit Antiques transformed his paintings into low reliefs up to _” thick. Here, in his Auction”. WADA is a not-for-profit organization and the admissions charged at primitive Wild Rose surroundings, he traded his Chicago cab for a used their Waukesha shows fund such grant and scholarship programs. See bicycle, never owning an automobile again. He and Anna lived without http://www.WisconsinAntiquesDealers.com to learn more. modern conveniences, including running water (except a hand pump c1830 Windsor rocker, Carol Miller of Bailey's Honor Auction Service in Oconomowoc has at the kitchenoriginal paint and stencil. once again volunteered to call the auction. You can follow her may auc- sink), so that he tions throughout the year at http://baileyshonor.com/ could pursue what he believed For questions about the 2016 "30th Star Benefit Antiques Auction" or to was his destiny - to paint in a make a donation of an antique or vintage item, please contact Riene Wells at manner no one had seen before. 262.363.4700, [email protected] or Debbie McArdle at 815.575.1272, jjm- Berg described “Heaven on [email protected] . Earth”, (completed in 1963 after To learn more about the FRIENDS of the Wisconsin Historical Society, visit five years of paint layering), as http://www.friendswisconsinhistory.org/ “the masterpiece of his life's Volunteers work”. He died in 1975. This will be on most impressive work, purchased hand in 1973 for $2,300 (more than 23rd February $13,000 in 2015 dollars!) was Adam Berg's monumental 60” x 48” 6 & 7 generously donated (along with “Heaven on Earth” (completed in 1963) to accept several other Berg works) to the will be offered for sale for the first time tax-deductible Friends of the Wisconsin in 38 years at the Friends of the Wisconsin antiques and Historical Society for their 2016 Historical Society's April 2016 auction! collectibles “30th Star Benefit Antiques It is a modern-day “Peaceable Kingdom”, for the “30th Auction” and was subsequently displaying everything good that is given Star Benefit on display at the February, 2015 to us - including a wedding! Antiques Heywood Wicker Buggy WADA show in a free booth pro- Auction”.