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Conestoga Sells Antiques And Collectible Toys

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Review And Photos By Nancy Vozar

A Dickensian Scene, With No Scrooges, At Conestoga

Prices Do Not Reflect The Buyer’s Premium

353 Lots Bring $91,885 At Conestoga Sale

Conestoga set 1, 2 and 3 cut cutlines

 

This paper lantern, depicting the Man in the Moon, brought $60.

 

A rare Humpty Dumpty circus tent, without figures or box, sold for $9,000.

 

Mohair Teddy bear perfume bottle by Scvhucco, $725.

 

A musical automated winter plays scene with three bisque girls and wooden mechanical figures skiing and sledding in the background, $2,000.

 

A rare double Jack-in-the-Box, with composition clowns, sold for $950.

 

This Buddy L play school room with maroon student desks was called “very rare” and sold for $8,500. The lots included a variety of school related items and a teacher’s desk.

 

Uneeda Biscuit Boy doll, with composition and fabric body in original yellow raincoat with National Biscuit advertising paper, sold for $260.

 

Composition chef nodder with articulated eyes, painted face, chef’s shirt and green pants, black shoes, sold for $500.

 

An Ives railroad waiting platform with tin litho base and cast metal frame, sold for $2,500. It is pictured with an English train engine and a Pullman observation car that were sold separately.

 

Composition boy doll baseball player, in flannel uniform with cap, brought $175.

 

A rare Pilot Parachute Doll, 10-inch uniformed figure attached to a parachute marked “Abercrombie & Fitch Co.”, original box with throwing dice and pamphlet, box marked Germany, went for $300.

 

Automated bobbing head clown with paper litho body and head, $150.

 

Getting the once-over was a horse candy container with a bisque head clown sitting on top, $1,700.

 

Dave Thompson from Le Petit Museum of Musical Boxes in Marietta, Penn., looks over the red and yellow painted girl’s sled with iron covered runners, circa 1880, $1,700.

 

A well-attended sale

 

Auctioneer Philip Nissley taking bids on the Steiff “Bully” that sold for $3,200.

 

A bid of $7,500 took this Ives hook and ladder horse-drawn vehicle.

 

Nuremberg kitchen, complete with many small accessories, brought $9,500.

 

Cast-iron Ives horse-drawn fire pumper, with driver, sold for $6,750.

 

A bid of $2,100 was registered for this Gottschalk doll house.

 

The Schoenhut circus tent, $9,000.

 

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