A & E PIDGEON AUCTIONS & APPRAISALS

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Family owned and operated conducting Auctions of complete estates, antiques,
households, farms, bakeries, sell-outs & commercial throughout Nova Scotia since 1975  

Licensed to sell firearms.

We provide a 3-Part Sales Slip for each item sold by Auction--one for the Buyer, one for Seller and one for Auctioneers; also, a simplified Statement of Account for Sellers 

In addition to auctioning, we also buy out estates, partial lots and individual items

EVERYTHING AT AUCTION SOLD AS IS, WHERE IS, CAVEAT EMPTOR

Donald Pidgeon (Donnie) & Verna Pidgeon (Sam)

DURHAM,  NOVA SCOTIA 

PO BOX 1083, PICTOU B0K 1H0

PHONE H/O 902-485-5968

Cells: 902-396-6072 & 902-921-8516

EMAIL:  info@pidgeonauctions.com

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     ESTATE AUCTION SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1ST AT ALMA FIRE HALL 

                                        AT THE ALMA FIRE HALL

                       VIEWING AT 10AM, AUCTION STARTS AT 11AM

                         (exit 20 or 21 off TCH 104 near New Glasgow           

WE HAVE BEEN FAVOURED WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO SELL CONTENTS FROM THE "TWITTER" JOHNSON ESTATE.  HIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN HELD IN STORAGE FOR MANY YEARS.  "TWITTER" WAS AN ACROBAT- CLOWN HAVING PERFORMED WITH BARBUM & BAILEY IN THE STATES FOR YEARS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1900s.  "TWITTER" MADE FRONT PAGE OF THE BOSTON HERALD AROUND MID-CENTURY WHEN STAYING AT A  HOTEL THERE THAT WENT ON FIRE, HE WAS TRAPPED ON THE 4TH FLOOR AND TO AVOID BEING BURNED TO DEATH (AS  SOME WERE), HE GOT OUT THE WINDOW AND HUNG BY HIS FINGERTIPS FOR SEVERAL HOURS UNTIL THEY GOT A FIRETRUCK WITH A LADDER THAT WOULD REACH UP MOST OF THE WAY.  IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY REACH THE LADDER, HE USED HIS ACROBATIC SKILLS TO DO A BACKFLIP FROM THE WINDOWSILL AND CAUGHT HOLD OF A RUNG OF THE LADDER.  "TWITTER" HAD A PASSION FOR OLD AND UNUSAL STUFF SO COLLECTING SAME WAS HIS HOBBY AFTER RETIRING.  HE ALSO MADE SEVERAL ITEMS,  A FEW OF WHICH ARE IN THIS AUCTION 

--Following is a list of items as we came to them--not listed in any order of

importance:

Vintage self-standing Quaker State metal tombstone Sign

Old 16" Stone grinding Wheel

Huge Vintage Marine Searchlight

Early Flamed Birch Dropleaf Table (one board top)

Windsor Style Braceback Rocker

Ornate Old Hanging Corner Cupboard w/Glazed Doors

Mahogany Empire Pedestal

Axminster Runner

Several Chrome "Paper Clip" Stools

Old Ship's Life Preserver

Old Child's Sleigh hand made by "Twitter"

Folk Art Figure hand made by "Twitter"

Textiles

Two 16" lengths Stainless Steel Insulated Chimney in boxes never opened

Old Glass Pepsi Sign

Set "Tour Craft" Golf Clubs/Case/Stand

Early Barrel

Pr  Children's Rockers

Old Mahogany Cupboard Top

Old Upholstered Mahogany Lincoln Rocker

Old Oak Standing "Ship Wheel" Ashtray

Metal Shell Sign

19th Century Oak Pedestal MantleL

Coke & Surprise Soap Signs

Old Scrubboards

Old Crockery inc. Rum Pot

Sets of Snowshoes inc "Bear Paws"

Costume Jewelry

Sadler Teapot/Cream/Sugar

Carved Elephants

Taxidermy Lg Lake Ontario Trout/sm Alligator & Armadillo

Ornate Mahogany Corner Whatnot

"Deluxe" Old Metal Pedal Car (needs TLC)

Early Pine Jam Cupboard

Old Canoe Paddle

Dell Comic Wire Rack

Several Comics--some 15 cents/mostly 25 cents

Lg 1974 Superman Collector Editions

1950 Set French Ivory Handled Steak Knives

Early Wooden Coca Cola Crate

Shamrock Tobacco Wooden Box

Early Chandler Watercolor

Old Macaskill Photos

2 Old Cape Breton Photos

Old Peggys Cove Photo

Several Dan Munro Prints

Vintage Domino Sets

Several Old Baskets--a lg colourful one alleged to be from Pictou Landing 

        Reservation, the type that Sally Sark made & took across the old ship 

        Hoshelaga to Pictou for market

Lg Striped Jars used in advertising Chanel #5

Delft Dishes

Old Mold from New Glasgow Foundry

Lg Satsuma style Jar

Several Pcs Black Milkglass

Several Pcs Old Cranberry inc Hall Hanging Oil Lamps, Vases, etc

China from the old Severight Co (early 1900 New Glasgow) hand-decorated/sgd 

          by local artists inc Set Demitasses

Fishing Creel/Old Salmon Rods/Smelt Spears/Reels

Art Glass/Carnival/Depression/Bohemian

Several Pcs Murano inc Fish & Rooster

Broadaxe

Lg Old Jailer's Key

CNR Meathook

Crystal Decanters

Sm Repro One-Arm Bandit

Trenton Glass Eggcups

Chunk Humphry Glass

Lg Brass WW Shell

Old Matching Army Cane & Swagger Stick

1919 Gold Mine Share Certificate

Steamer Trunk

Early Sheraton style Armchair w/X Stretcher Base from the Crombie Estate

John Deere Toy Tractor/Combine Harvester

6' Ice Saw

Early Teapot

Case Glass

Ladies Sz 12 Dress Kilts made in Scotland--Nova Scotia & Royal Stewart Tartan

Old Native(?) Bow

Coleman Lantern in box

Vintage Birdcages

Horse Gear

Old Tobacco Tins

Old Tankards inc Bone

Several Old White Handled Doorknobs

Satin Glass Decanter Set

Early China C/Ss & Lg French C/S

Copper Lustre

Ostrich Egg

Brass Bells

Rattan Sewing Baskets

Golfers Bar Set

Coal Scuttle

Early Ladderback Chair

Mayfair & Jackson Colored Mixing Bowls

Sm Early Pine Cupboard Sgd McLarens (Pictou)

Sm Titanic Replica

Samuel Adams Blackboard

1907 Print--Dogs playing Cards

Canning Apple Barrel Adv

Ken/Barbie Dolls

Inuit Leather Mitts

Vintage Japanese Carved Ivory? Handled Knife

Turtles inc Wades & Brass

Old Crockery Molds

Old Red Globes for RR Lanterns

Vintage Cuban Cigar Case

Old Case Cuban Cigars never opened

Old Cast Iron Bookends (horse)

Old 4' Anchor

Sidedogs

8 Miniature Collector Decoys

1956 Esso Map Maritimes

Insulators

Walnut Magazine Rack ......AND MORE

          Terms: Cash/AppCks/Interac/MC/Visa/Amco; Canteen by Fay

         PIDGEONS, PH  Home Office 902-485-5968 Cell 902-396-4072

                            email: info@pidgeonauctions.com 

 (feel free to phone anytime 8am-10pm except Sundays & Christmas Day) 

       SEE PHOTOS BELOW STARTING LATER THIS AFTERNOON

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                 EVERYTHING IN AUCTION IS SOLD AS IS, WHERE IS 

                              CAVEAT EMPTOR   -   NO RETURNS