LARGE 2-DAY ESTATE AUCTION
Martin Calvert Estate-Blandinsville, Illinois

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Monday & Tuesday, August 9 & 10, 2010 @ 9 a.m. both days

Location: Sale to be held on Main St. at the South edge of Blandinsville, IL

Try to attend this 2-day auction, there is no cell phone service available; therefore, there will be no online bidding. Please feel free to call our office at 217-847-2160 to leave an absentee bid.

1927 Ford Model TT Truck, 1929 Ford Model AA Truck & Accessories
- 1927 Ford Model TT truck, 4-cyl., 3-speed trans., early '90s restoration, runs excellent and is in very good condition!
- 1929 Ford Model AA truck, 3-speed trans., nice older restoration, always stored inside! You'll like it!!
- Rear end for Ford Model AA
- Bed off Ford Model A truck
- Car and truck parts to include: Tires and rims; fenders; steering columns; headlights; spark plugs; head; horns; Model A windshields; transmissions; gas tanks; hubcaps; etc.

Antique Tractors, Motor Home & Trailers
- Oliver "77 Standard" tractor, WF, 12-26 tires, fenders, SN 269108
- '35 AC WC tractor, front (hard to find) and rear steel, SN WC12541
- Massey-Harris "22" tractor, NF, fenders, SN 22-GR 1709
- '78 Chevrolet "Chevy Van 30" Rockwood Series motor home, 400 eng., auto, sleeps 6 comfortably
- 16' steel bumper hitch utility trailer with ramps, used to haul antique vehicles
- Jay-Dee 16' enclosed tandem axle bumper hitch trailer, wired and in good condition

Antique Horse Drawn Equipment
- Oliver one-bottom sulky plow, "40 Oliver" on back of plow shear, complete
- Emerson 2-bottom "Right Hand Gang" plow
- 2-bottom "Left Hand Gang" plow
- McCormick "New 4" 5' sickle bar mower
- Superior 5' drill with grass seed, wood box, etc. in good condition
- JD 2-row planter, check wire and complete with smaller boxes
- Hayes 2-row planter
- Wooden 2-row corn planter, manually drops the seed
- Hay tedder, on steel (original wooden wheels have been taken off)
- NI manure spreader, shedded and wooden sides in very good condition
- American Seeding 21/2' drill
- Several one and two-row horse drawn cultivators
- Towers surface cultivator
- 7' Disc cultivator
- Muley cultivator
- Moline Plow Company 7' disc
- McCormick one-row corn binder
- Several sections of wooden harrow
- Approx. 10 walking plows, steel & wooden beams, including breaking plow with root cutter, plow which throws sod to the right & left, etc.
- Potato plow
- Vulcan Plow Company sub-soiler, unusual
- Fisher roller, Macomb, IL 1906
- 6' stalk cutter on steel wheels, converted to regular hitch

Wooden Wagons, Farm Primitives, Cast Iron Seat & Hit 'N Miss Engine
- Outstanding high-wheel wooden wagon Mfg. Newton, sold by Kilgore Implt. Co., LaHarpe, IL, this wagon is in very good condition and sells complete with spring buggy seat
- Very nice high-wheel wooden wagon, also stored inside and in good condition
- JD 40"x10' wooden wagon with 12 1/2" sides and on steel wheels
- 3 1/2'x 10' wooden RR depot wagon on steel wheels
- Fairbanks-Morse "Feed Mills" No. 1 pulley operated mill
- McCormick 2-hole wooden corn sheller
- (2) Wooden box-style hand corn shellers, (1) Mfg Sandwich, IL
- Wooden hand crank/pulley wash machine
- Unusual "E.T. Barnum" cast iron jail cell, was in Blandinsville town hall at one time.
- Unusual ice saw marker and ice saw
- Disc shaft sharpener, Mfg. A.E. Durner
- (10) cast iron seats to include: Bonanza; Attley; Keystone; Deering; South Bend; Budlong; etc.
- Stover "CT2" 2-2 1/2 hp hit 'n miss eng. on steel wheel dolly
- Collection of brass oil spigots
- (2) Maytag gas engines with foot clutch and both 2-cyl.
- (2) Maytag wringer wash machines
- National "Oat Crusher" No. 10 mill with pulley
- Large quantity of wooden and cast iron pulleys
- Very large collection of farm implement oil cans in various styles, names and brands, a few names to include: Minneapolis Moline; The Wisco Store; Enarco; Cannon Oiler (brass); Drake Hardware, Burlington, IA; etc. Over 75 oil cans!
- Several wood planes; wood bits; barn building bits; scales and scale parts; meat grinders; egg baskets; galvanized chicken coop; broad axe, draw knives; ice tongs; plus many other early primitive-type items.
- Nice selection of horse related items to include whiffle tree, buggy steps, horse collars, harness, forge items, etc.
- (3) cream separators, complete
- Large cast iron butchering kettle
- One-row steel wheel garden planter with original stenciling
- Several Ertl collector series tractors with boxes
- Wooden well pump
- Barnes hand crank saw on steel frame, possibly a board edger
- Rare and unusual woven wire fence maker, Mfg "The Star" Patent 1893, appears to be complete
- "Automatic Woven Wire Fence Machine" Mfg Kitselman Bros., Muncie, Ind.
- Collection of early antique chain saws
- (2) wooden seed cleaners
- Several seed sacks to include: Pioneer, Dekalb, Funks G Hybrid and others
- Good selection of pitch forks and bundle forks
- Approx. 15 stone jugs, 1-5 gallon
- External church chimes, out of Christian church, Blandinsville, IL
- Peoria antique stove
- Kochs barber's chair, as is
- Massey Ferguson 500 SST "Ski Whiz" snowmobile with matching trailer, has been stored inside, although has been several years since it has ran

Petrolina Collectibles
- Outstanding collection of oil cans, several hundred... The following are only highlights: Road Runner; Hermoline; Black Gold; Minneapolis Moline; Tri-Pure; Sinclair; Wolf's Head; Socuny; Polarine; Penotol; Phillips 66; Kendall; Merrimack; Par-O-Vis; Shapleigh's; Gargoyle; En-Ar-Co; HyVis; Macmillan; Tydol; Veedol; Northland; Blue Velvet; Fox Head; Dino; Petrolia; Lubrite; Texaco; plus many, many others!! Check out our website at www.sullivanauctioneers.com for photos.
- Collection of glass oil bottles to include rare aqua colored "Polarine"; Standard Oil "Polarine"; Brookins; Dover; Kalamazoo; Standard with embossed torch; HEP Imperial; Nifty with brass nozzle and handle; Huffman; etc.
- Signs to include: Conoco enamel (approx. 76"x 70"); DX enamel, diamond shaped (approx. 70"x 108"); Phillips 66 enamel (approx. 70"x 70"); Texaco enamel (approx. 72" diameter)
- Several smaller enamel signs off gas pumps, to include: Sky Chief; Fire-Chief; Mobil; Pure Premium; Pure-Pep; Gulf; DX; Standard; Sinclair, etc.
- Few other signs including smaller Goodyear; (2) Amoco plastic signs; and large Standard sign in fair condition
- "Quarantee Liquid Measure Co.", Rochester, PA 3-compartment dispenser on rollers with glass cylinders
- Shell motor oil container with hand pump
- Portable oil barrel with dual hand pumps, nicely refinished!
- Several other fuel barrels with pumps
- Quart oil display on rollers
- Rare Conoco quart oil store display
- Wire oil carriers
- Several 5 gal. liquid measuring cans
- Sinclair and Standard galvanized 5 gal. cans
- Good quantity of state road maps and holders
- "Underwriter's" 10-gal. visible gas pump complete with glass cylinder, hand crank, hose, etc.
- Older gas pump with revolving shield cover, poor condition
- Tokheim model 86 gas pump, poor condition
- Reproduction 73" tall gas pump

Antique Lantern Collection & Antique License Plate Collection
- Approx. 100± antique lanterns of nearly every style and description. Once again...the following is a brief listing: rare steam engine lantern; brass conductor's lantern; large selection of outstanding RR lanterns with red and clear glass; RR inspector's lantern; Shapleigh and Simmons; several Dietz's; etc. (Please view close up photos on our website.)
- We will also be selling a good selection of glass globes in blue, red, aqua, clear, etc. colors
- Complete collection of Illinois license plates from 1910 thru 2004. Please note: A few of the plates throughout the collection are matching #'s, although we only have singles of each year.
- Also selling: a few license plates from other states circa '70s, '80s, and '90s.

Tools and Miscellaneous
- Rockwell radial arm saw
- Craftsman 2-speed 12" band saw
- Craftsman drill press
- Rockford 2-wheel bench grinder
- Delta 1" sander
- Battery charger/booster
- 3-ton floor jack
- Pony air tank
- Large squirrel cage fan
- Lawn Boy push mower
- Assorted power tools
- Misc. hand tools
- Buck saws
- Organizers
- Various spades, rakes, shovels, etc.
- Manual tire changing machine
- Work bench

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Be sure to attend this large 2-day estate auction. The late Martin Calvert (died at the age of 90 yrs. old) collected neat and unusual petrolina items, horse drawn implements, as well as good old country store collectibles nearly all his life! He was a 40+ year member of the Southeast Iowa antique car club; was one of the original directors for McDonough Telephone Co.; was very active in the Western Museum; and a lifelong member of the Methodist Church in Blandinsville, IL. Abbreviated sale order: Day 1, Monday, August 9 @ 9 a.m.-Petrolina collection which includes oil cans, signs, gas pumps, and other related service station items; License plate collection; Other collectibles, tools, and misc., etc.; Day 2, Tuesday, August 10 @ 9 a.m.-All horse drawn equipment, high wheel wagons, antique vehicles, tractors, lantern collection, plus much more (both days are very large and interesting... this is not an exact sale order as there will be an overlap of items each day). Items of major significance will be offered via the internet through Proxibid.com. Lunch available by Sly Fox Food Service at the auction as well as local restaurants nearby such as Tink's, Slup's, and Two Doors Down. Not responsible for accidents, errors or omissions. Announcements sale day take precedence.


Martin Calvert Estate
Lee Calvert and Nancy Sherer-Co-Executors

1066 E. US Highway 136, P.O. Box 111
Hamilton, IL 62341-0111
Phone: 217-847-2160
Fax: 217-847-6246


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