| FEBRUARY ESTATE AUCTIONS
The 2007 auction year starts off with four nice Thursday evening specialty and estate auctions. The first sale this month is a nice ephemera sale with plenty of variety of fresh-to-the-market material. The following three sales are three local estate lots from Richmond and Harrisville, NH, and one from Brattleboro, VT, loaded with 19th and 20th Century antiques and accessories. For more info call 1-800-352-5251 or look online at www.knottypineantiques.com.
GENERAL EPHEMERA AUCTION — THURS, FEBRUARY 1st @ 6 PM
We will be selling a nice selection of 19th and 20th Century ephemera, advertising & toys gathered from various local homes & estates to include: historical pamphlets; travel ephemera (maps, guides, brochures, etc); early engravings & prints; Coca Cola collectibles; maps & posters including WWII & Denman Thompson; advertising signs; calendars & tins; auction & sales catalogs; lg quantity of postcards, comic books, toys & games to include tin litho; boxed board games; cast metal & wooden toys; dolls & puzzles; selection of sheet music; LP phonograph records (incl Beatles); selection of photography to include cased images; tintypes; cabinet photos & Vict albums, etc; early newspapers & comic strips; cigar boxes & product packaging; old golf clubs w/bag & other sports memorabilia (cards, signatures, photos, etc); child's blackboard; political buttons & collectibles; snow domes; 19th & 20th Cent correspondence; clothing patterns; lg selection of periodicals (Sat Evening Post, TV Mirror, Sports Illus, Mast, Popular Mechanics, Radio News, Youth's Companion, Life, Science & News, etc); estate books to include novels, nature, juveniles, law, technicals, sm format, books on antiques, etc.
'Limited edition' Chesterfield poster has its limits
DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: I have a Chesterfield cigarette poster with a picture of Ronald Reagan. It is 18 by 22 inches and marked "Originally printed in 1948, copyright 1980, Stampagraphic, Limited Edition." What is my piece worth? Thank you. -- A.P., Jerome, Mich.DEAR A.P.: Chesterfield as a brand of cigarettes has a very long history. Originally, it was a product of the Drummond Tobacco Company of St. Louis, which was primarily a maker of plug tobacco.Cigarettes were a sideline for Drummond, and other than Chesterfield, they manufactured both the Drum and Cannon brands. In the late 1890's there was a tobacco war between the American Tobacco Company, Drummond, and Leggett and Meyers. American Tobacco won and acquired Drummond in 1898 and then acquired Leggett and Meyers in 1899.American Tobacco manufactured the Chesterfield brand until 1911, when the company was broken up as a monopoly, and Chesterfield went to Leggett and Meyers which continued making the brand until 1998.
Bugasong celebrates Padurugyaw festival
San Jose, Antique (17 January) -- Along with the series of January festivities in the country, the Municipality of Bugasong will also celebrate its "Padurugyaw Festival that will commence on January 14, and end on the eighteenth day, this year. Padurugyaw, which came from the two kinaray-a words "Paduruya" kag "Maghugyaw" 2007, bearing its theme: "Pang-agda para sa kauswagan" is both a cultural and religious celebration honored to the miraculous saint Senior Sto. Niño de Negrito, which claimed to be the legendary patron of Bugasong due to its appearance at times of danger situation in the past. The day series will be a bunch of heavy activities hosted by the sponsoring agencies and will highlight the "Mardi Gras" and Ati-ati tribe competition that will perform around the designated allies of the town, followed by the torch parade of the different images of Sr.
Tractor pull, antique equipment at fairgrounds this weekend
The livestock arena at the fairgrounds plays host to powerful tractors this weekend, straining to pull a stubborn sled across the dirt before the weight overcomes them and they bog down. The tractor pull also includes an antique tractor show, garden tractors and a youth tractor race. There will be food vendors and free parking. A tractor pull pits a powerful tractor against a mechanical weight, called a sled, which is attached to the back of the tractor. As the pull begins, a slab of metal on the sled slides toward the tractor, making it more difficult for it to gain traction. If the tractor driver is successful, he or she will pull the sled across the finish line for a full pull. If not, the sled is the victor and the tractor's rear wheels bog down.
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