'Homestead Antiques' 5-Day Antique & Americana Auction - 9/6/2017 10:00 AM
DAY 1 - Jill Fox Thoren Estate, Over 50 Years of Collecting & Dealing Antiques & Collectibles.
This Multiple Auction Will Be Held: Wed. Sept. 6 & Thur. Sept. 7 - Sat. Sept. 9 & Sun. Sept. 10 and Wed. Sept. 13,
All Auctions Will Begin @ 10 AM With 2-Auction Rings, Please Come Prepared With a Bidding Partner.
FEATURING A Vast Collection of Good Old Furniture-Cupboards-Cabinets-Tables-Stands-Chests-Trunks-Chairs-Hanging & Corner Cupboards-Country & Victorian, Loads of Furniture In The Rough, Lighting, Stoneware, Pottery, Advertising & Country Store, Spice Cabinets, Old Painted Antiques, Graniteware & Primitives, Cast Iron, Artwork & Pictures, Early Books & Literature, Thousands of Smalls, Jewelry & Silver, Miniatures, Blacksmith & Old Farm, Spool Cabinets, Huge & Extensive Sewing Collection-Fabric-Textile-Quilts, China-Glassware-Ceramics, Kitchenware, Show Cases & Display, Americana, Outdoor Iron and A Wonderful Selection of Antiques of Every Category.
Rain or Shine - Under Tent.
Corner of Riverside Blvd. & Central Ave.

Location:
3712 N. Central Ave. Rockford, Illinois 61101


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Bates, Reed & Cooley Dye Cabinet:Litho & Stencil Paint, 10 Cent; Black & White Scotch Whiskey Wooden Crate; Carter Brilliant Blue Ink Bottle; Chas. Gray Beverage Crate; Coleman's Mustard Bulk Tin; Dr. Miles 1917 Almanacs; Dutch Box WET PAINT Sign; Kingsford's Silver Glass Starch 6 lb. Dovetailed Box; Pepsi-Cola Advertisement Crate; Safe Home Match Wooden Dovetailed Crate; Symond's Baking Chocolate Crate; Table Talk Pastry Co. Wooden Crate; The National Cash Register Co. Embossed Receipt Holder; Tiger Tobacco Tin Lunch Pail; West & Almquist Staple & Fancy Groceries Crate:and Many Other Adv. Tins & Boxes;

Antiques
Early Oak National Cash Register:Dovetailed, 1-Drawer, Brass Plaque, Lift Top, Fancy Brass Gallery; Home Comfort Gray Speckled Enamel Cookstove:Complete w/Back & Top; American Gray Graniteware Collection; Artist's Stand:Iron Pedestal Base, Oak Fold Top; Bamboo Music Stand; Corner Cupboards; Decorated Dresser Box; Early Book Press; Early Brass Fire Dept. Nozzle:30 in.; Early Wooden Printer's Drawers; Fancy Cast Iron Shelf Brackets; Feather Trees; German Wall Mount Coffee Grinder:and Others; Home Child's Cookstove; Hoosier Jar 5-Bottle Rack; Iron Strapped Trunks; Miniatures Collection:Doll House Cupboards & Furniture w/Loads of Accessories; Oak 11-Drawer Highboy Desk; Oak 35-Drawer File Cabinet; Oak Arts & Crafts Book Stand; Oak Beveled Glass Wall Mirror:w/Cast Hooks; Oak Coat Rack w/Cast Hooks; Oak File Legal Cabinet; Oak High Boy Chest; Oak Sewing Machine Drawers; Old Iron Coat Hooks; Old Key Collection:For Clocks, Cabinets, Etc.; Ornate Carved Victorian Wall Shelf; Ornate Cast Flag Bases; Pine 16-Drawer Spice Cabinet:w/Porcelain Pulls; Pine 2-Door Pie Safe; Pine 2-Drawer Cupboards:Several Pine Cupboards, Some Painted; Pine Dressers; Pine Glass Door Wall Display Cabinet; Swedish Decorated Spinning Wheel; Toleware Spice Set in Box; Victorian Foot Stools; Victorian Quilt Rack; Victorian Sewing Drawers; Victorian Velvet Lined Box; Walnut Victorian Carved Beds; Walnut Victorian Wall Display Cabinet:2-Sliding Glass Doors, 48 in. wide x 62 in. tall; Wooden Silverware Trays:and more;

Architectural
Victorian Oak Stairway Posts; Brass Knob Hardware; Leaded Glass Frosted Windows; Victorian Hardware;

Art Pottery
Campbell Kids ABC Baby Plate:by Buffalo Pottery; Shawnee Rooster Milk Pitcher:and Mid-Century Vases, etc.;

Artwork
'Stealing Lunch' Early Child's Photograph; 1884 French Couteur Prints; Charlotte Becker Baby on Phone Litho; Gilt Framed Early Pictures; Huge Selection Early Lithos in Gilt Frames:and Related Early Artwork; Oil on Hardboard Landscapes; Oriental Mother-of-Pearl Carved Artwork:Floral & Bird Motiff; Parian Porcelein 'Diana & the Stag' Plaque; Religious Lithographs:Jesus, Mary, Related; Roses Yard Long Litho:and many other oils & prints;

Banks
Glass & Tin Banks;

China/Glassware
Bittersweet Stacking Bowl Set; Blue Ridge Pottery Collection; Blue Willow Gravy, Etc.; Candlewick & Patterned Glassware; Carmel Slag Crocus Creamer; Cut Glass Salt & Peppers; Etched Glassware; Floral Cranberry Opalescent Cruet; German Monk Cream Pitcher; Hand Painted Hat Pin Holders; Head Vases; High School Byron Ill. China Creamer; Iris Carnival Glass Vases; Mt. Washington Shaker; Pink & Green Depression Glassware:Large Variety; Quilted Satin Vase; Silhouette China Rolling Pin; Tea Leaf Ironstone Dishes; Tulip Thyme Kitchen Set; Vaseline, Satin Pedestal Candy Dishes; Venetian Glass Vases; Victorian Glass Slippers:and much more;

Clocks
Ansonia Fancy Drop Case Wall Regulator Clock; Fancy Oak Shelf Clocks; Hand Painted Decorated Grandmother's Clock; Waterbury Steeple Clock:w/Painted Glass Panel and others;

Collectibles
Halloween Collection:Candles, Black Cats, Pumpkins, Die Cut Witches, Etc.; Bentwood Sewing Box; Black Memorabilia & Native American Cards; Christmas Tree Flex Fence:Original Box; Dallasware Lunch Tray; Dick Tracy Brass Badge; Glass Humidores; Grant Embossed Plaque; Jars of Old Buttons; Loads of Miniatures & Smalls:Inks, Bells, Figurines, Advertising, Cast, Etc., Etc.; Loads of Old Santa & Christmas; Marble & Brass Bookends; Marbles:Glass & Clay; NOMA Chenille Candle Wreaths; Novelty Japan Salt & Pepper Shakers; Old Post Cards; Photo Albums; Salt & Pepper Shaker Collection; Stereo Viewers & Sets of Cards:and hundreds of smalls;

Country Store
Hardware Store 80-Drawer Revolving Bolt Bin:On 18-Drawer Base, Porcelain Knob Pulls; Apothecary Oak 8-Drawer Cabinet; Brass & Glass Counter Top Display Case:Full of Sewing & Jewelry; Cast Iron Letter Hooks; Counter Top Dovetailed Sewing Display Cabinet:2-Drawers, Glass Top; Early Counter Top Towel Display Rack in Old Green Paint; Ferry's Vegetable Counter Top Display Case:Dovetailed; Glass Top Jewelry Display Case:20"sq. X 46"h.; Hanscraft Sterilizer Unit w/Stoneware Base; Hardware Counter Top Scale; Harrison Square Counter Top Cigar Box:5 for 10 Cents; Hitchcock-Hill Co. Bread Box; Hurculaces Boot & Shoe Lace Cabinet; Ice Tea Counter Top Dispensor; Ideal Stencil Machine:Heavy Cast Iron; Imperial Brass Tray Scales; Putnam Dyes Counter Top Display; String Holders; Wire Grocery Baskets:and more;

Dolls & Bears
Bisque, German & Japan Jointed Dolls & Miniatures; Doll Accessory Collection:Wash Board, Dishes, Buckets, Etc.; Doll Cupboard in Old White Paint; Doll House Miniatures:Furniture, Dolls, Etc.; Early Child's Trunks; Occupied Japan Phoenix Bird Doll Dish Set:w/Platter & Tureen; Pine Doll Cupboard w/Willow Ware Occupied Japan China; Walnut 5-Drawer Doll Chest:and a variety of old doll related itms;

Ephemera
Old Papergoods & Advertisement:Valentines, Post Cards, Advertisement Cards, Photographs, Etc., Etc.;

Farm Primitives
Chicken Roosts; Tin 4-Dozen Egg Carrying Case; Wooden 4-Hole Chicken Nester:and milk cans, rakes and wood items;

Fishing/Hunting
Duck Decoys; Woolen Red & Black Hunting Pants:White Stag;

Horse Drawn
Buck Board Portable Wagon Seat:Velvet w/Folding Back and other spring wagon seats; 2 Seat Tram:wood seats, on wheels; Brass Mounted Sleigh Bell Set; Cast Harnees Hooks;

Jewelry
Bakelite Bracelets; Bakelite Scottie Dog Pin; Big Selection Costume Jewelry; Cameo Broaches; Crystal Necklaces; Old Spectacles & Pen Knives; Rhinestones; Sterling Broaches & Necklaces; Victorian Beaded Mesh Purses; Victorian Jewelry:and loads of old jewelry;

Knives
Stag Handled Pocket Knives:and others;

Lighting
Dbl. Angle Brass Embossed Hanging Light Fixture; Classical Lord & Lady Sculpture Lamps:Brass-Like Look; Country Store Brass Embossed Hanging Light Fixture; Many Glass Prisms; Rockford Pump Lamp; Victorian Central Room Hanging Light Fixture:Painted Shade & Font, Prisms; Victorian Kerosene Bracket Lamps; Wooden Ratchet Floor Lamp:kerosene lamps and more;

Lumber
Old Barn Wood;

Military
Camp Grant 1917 Martial Fairwell Yard Long:1st Illinois Infantry & Engineers;

Musical
Chrometta & Other Harmonicas;

Native American
Fossils & Stones; Gathering Baskets;

Primitives
Advertisement Crates; Big Selection Early Kitchenware:Rolling Pins, Mixing Bowls, Utensils, Tin & Cast Iron; Blue Porcelain Perfection Heaters; Brass & Glass Wash Boards; Brass Dome Unusual Bellows; Cast Iron Buckets & Pans; Cast Iron Floor Grates; Clothes Wringers; Country Pine 2 Door Cupboard:in old grey paint; Early Dovetailed Immigrant's Trunk; Early Iron Fireplace Trivet; Early Oak 63-Bin Postal Cabinet; Early Painted Pine Cupboards; Early Tin Book Lunch Box; Early Wainscoat 1-Door Jelly Cupboard; Early Wainscot Child's Cupboard; Early Wall Spice Cabinets; Enterprise Cherry Stoner; Folk Art Bird Houses; Granite & Enamelware; Green Ammo Crate Rolling Tool Box; Iron Bridge Lamps; Iron Wash Bowl Stand w/Granite Pan; Kitchen Jars; Ladder Back Chairs; Large Wooden Barn Pulleys; Leather Strapped Totes; Lightning Rods & Globes; Lots of Woven Willow & Split Wood Baskets; Many Primitive Trays & Boxes; Oak Brass Knob Spice Box; Oak Stave Barrels; Oak Stools; Old Cookie Cutters:Big Selection; Pine Tall Glass Door Display Cupboard:7.5 ft. tall x 4 ft. wide; Pine Wainscot Cupboard Doors:in Old Green Paint; Pine Wall Bin Unit; Pine Wash Bench; Primitive Carpenter's Chests; Primitive Cast Iron Leg Milk Stool; Primitive Cheese Boxes:American, Pabst, Etc.; Primitive Pine Benches:Large Selection, Finished, Painted, Rough, Etc.; Primitive Pine Pidgeon Hole Units; Primitive Pine Wood Box:w/Traces of Old Blue Paint; Primitive Scales; Primitive Wooden Boxes; Primitive Wooden Tool Boxes; Primitive Yarn Winders; Sad Irons:Regular & Doll Size; Sad Irons; Tin Food Mold Sets; Wainscot Cupboard Tops & Bases; Wicker Fernery; Wooden Egg Crates; Wooden Mixing Bowls; Wooden Tankard; Wool Carders:and more;

Railroad
C.R.I &P. Railway Brass Padlock;

Signs
Coca Cola 'Oak Ridge Market' Metal Sign:24" x 10.5' 'Enjoy Coc Cola' and many other old posters & signs;

Silver
Best Wishes Silver Bird Toothpick;

Stoneware
Natioinal Pickel & Canning Company Pickel Barrel:w/Wooden Lid; Blue/Gray Stoneware Iris Pitcher; Cream & Tan Banded Mixing Bowls; Crocks; Ev-Re-Day Oleomargerine Stoneware Crock:by Wisconsin Butterine Co.; Red Wing Sponge Banded Bowls; Spongeware Barrel Pitcher; Spongeware Casseroles & Mixing Bowls:and other crocks & jugs;

Textiles
American 48-Star Flag, Large; Crocheted & Fancy Work; Hand Sewn Quilts; Jars Full of Old Buttons; Patterned Hooked Rugs; Sun Bonnet Quilt Patches; Unique Sewing Items:and lots od old sewing;

Toys
'Wagon Ten Pins' Old Primitive Wagon; Early Folk Art Painted Barn; Pewter Horse & Cannon Figures Set:and other unique old toys;

Vintage Clothes
Leather High Lace Up Boots; Vintage Hats & Umbrellas:and Many More Great Antiques;