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7th Annual
2-DAY HUMBOLDT ANTIQUE TOOL AUCTION
(May 4 & 5, 2012
(Starting 4 PM on Friday & 9:35 AM Saturday)
Humboldt Fairgrounds Building (Events Center)
311 6th Ave. North
Humboldt, Iowa 50548
(The completed list for the Saturday auction & a photo gallery can be found (HERE)
(The completed list for the Friday auction & a photo gallery can be found (HERE)

This auction will feature another large assortment of rare Stanley tools and other patented woodworking planes and other tools from the Arlet Cassidy collection from Waterloo Iowa, as well as a large collection of contemporary woodworking hand tools by Garrett Wade, Veritas, Lee Valley, ECE, Lie-Nielsen Gransfors, as well as lots of chisels, carving tools and sharpening stones, most like new, and a new ANKE woodworking work bench with storage bin below all from the collection of the late Brian Galassini.
In early April, we will begin cataloging the 350-400 lots that will be sold on Friday and will have the Friday list posted here by April 15.

The Early American Industries Association & Great Planes Trading Co. Proudly Present
SOLOMONS ISLAND ANTIQUE TOOL AUCTION
May 18, 2012, 6 PM
Holiday Inn Hotel Solomons
155 Holiday Drive
Solomons, Maryland 20688
(A working list with links to photos & photo gallery can be found (HERE)

This auction will feature an assortment of scarce Stanley, Sargent, Union and other manufactured tools, a RARE No. 111 OHIO TOOL CO. ivory-tipped rosewood center wheel plow plane, other nice wooden plow and molding planes and other tools, several nautical antiques and navigational instruments from a private Missouri collection, and other interesting tools and antiques.

3rd Annual
HOTTER 'N' HELL ANTIQUE SCALE & TOOL AUCTION
July 21, 2012, 9:30 AM
Harvester Lions Club
4835 Central School Rd.
St. Charles (St. Louis), MO 63304

This auction will feature the scale collection of George Danforth of Hannibal, Missouri. George, a native of Napa, California, moved to Hannibal in the 1970s where he and his wife operated an antique store and George filled up one floor of their 3-story 1860s home with scales. In addition to scales we will sell a nice assortment of antique tools, domestic collectibles, and other antiques from the Danforth home. Stay tuned for a list and a photo gallery to be posted here.

Inaugural
MID-SUMMER WRENCH AUCTION
July 27 & 28, 2012
Beginning Friday @ 4 PM & Saturday @ 9:35 AM.
Cosgrove Institute
2009 400th St. SW
Oxford (Cosgrove), Iowa 52322
(A working list with links to photos and a photo gallery will be posted by here early in May.

Phil Heninger built the majority of this collection while he was living in Belle Center, Ohio. He and the collection moved to Melbourne, Florida several years ago. He has continued to add to it while attending numerous tractor shows throughout central Florida. This auction is being held in the same school gym as the former Mid-West Tool Collectors Association regional "Cosgrove Show" which has since moved 60 miles south to the Old Threshers Grounds in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. The M-WTCA meeting in Mt. Pleasant will be held the day after the wrench auction on July 29, 2012. For registration information for that show contact Ed Chabal (319) 385-4710.

5th Annual
ST. CHARLES ANTIQUE TOOL AUCTION
Sept. 22, 2012, 9:30 AM
Harvester Lions Club
4835 Central School Rd.
St. Charles (St. Louis), MO 63304

2nd Annual
FALL ANTIQUE TOOL AUCTION
Dec. 1, 2012, 9:30 AM
Harvester Lions Club
4835 Central School Rd.
St. Charles (St. Louis), MO 63304

DO YOU HAVE ANTIQUE TOOLS, ANTIQUE KITCHEN GADGETS, SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; FARM PRIMITIVES OR RELATED ANTIQUES FOR SALE? CONTACT MIKE AT RATDADDY@MAC.COM ABOUT SCHEDULING AN AUCTION OR ADDING YOUR ITEMS TO AN ALREADY SCHEDULED AUCTION. ALL INQUIRIES WILL BE HELD IN STRICT CONFIDENCE.

A 10 percent buyers premium is charged at all of our sales. We do not like having to charge it, but it has been a standard practice in the specialty auction industry for many years with the bigger houses charging 15 to 20 percent or more. We use the 10 percent we collect to offset the ever-increasing costs associated with putting our sales together. By not having to pass all these costs onto our consigners we are able to attract better consignments and offer competitive rates.

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