George Bell - Petroliana & Antique Auction

Auction Location: Auction to be held at 2601 Iowa Street, Columbus City, Iowa

1922 Studebaker Touring Car - Gas Pumps - Windmills - Windmill weights - Horse Drawn Buggies - Petroliana Signage - Antiques & More!!

Auctioneer's Note: Don’t miss this auction!  George has been a lifelong resident and business owner in Columbus Junction & Columbus City area and has collected for over 70 years.  This is a very unique auction, view the www.steffesgroup.com for over 500 pictures of this auction.  Be prepared as two rings will run part of the day.  Online bidding on the major items. 

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1922 STUDEBAKER – HORSE BUGGIES – SLEIGHS 
1922 Studebaker Touring, 6 cyl., 9,025 miles, side curtains, completely original, driver’s side tool box, spotlight, mirror, suicide front doors, double spare tires, S/N 1048811 
Concord doctor’s buggy, around 1910
Jung Carriage 4 person buggy
Hercules 2 person buggy with canopy
Storm Buggy, enclosed w/ sliding doors, around 1905
Gentlemen’s buggy, needs repair 
Albany horse drawn sleigh
Horse drawn sleigh
4 skids for horse drawn wagon
Various tongues & single trees
Antique railroad baggage cart on steel wheels, restored

GAS PUMPS - GLOBES
Wayne 10 gal. visible gas pump w/ Diamond DX globe (repro. globe)
Butler Manufacturing 10 gal. visible gas pump w/ Texaco Fire Chief globe (repro. globe)
American 10 gal. visible gas pump w/ Texaco globe (repro. globe)
Bowser clockface gas pump w/ Texaco globe (repro. globe)
Captial Oil/Speed King gas pump globe (original)
American Gasoline gas pump globe (original)
Gold Powder Pack gas pump globe (original)
Ranger Gasoline gas pump globe (original)
Bell Ethyl gas pump globe (original)
Gasoline gas pump globe (original)
CO-OP gas pump globe (original)
Bell Regular gas pump globe (original)
Mobile Gas gas pump globe (original)
NeverNox gas pump globe (original)

2 WINDMILLS - HOUSE
Buyers will have 30 days to remove the house, 2 windmills & outhouse
Aermotor USA 40’ windmill
Star 35’ windmill (made in Cedar Rapids)
Cedar Rapids Pump Company windmill pump
18 ½’X 22 ½’ – 3 room house w/ 7’x14’ front covered porch & 6’x15’ back porch, wood floors, electricity, Liberty wood burning stove sells separate.
2 story outhouse, 2 holes up & down

WINDMILL WEIGHTS – WEATHER VANES
Horse for 10’ windmill
Buffalo for 10’ windmill
Chicken for 12’ windmill, 38lbs
Bull for 10’ windmill
Horse (long tail) for 12’ windmill
Horse (short tail) for 10’ windmill
Small chicken (Hummer) for 10’ windmill
Eagle for 10’ windmill
Bull, Fairbury, NE for 12’ windmill
‘W’ Wheeler for 10’ windmill
Challenger for 10’ windmill
Dry Moon eclipse for 10’ windmill
(4) Wet Moon eclipse for 10’ windmill
Star for 12’ windmill
Boss Bull for 10’ windmill
Salesman’s sample horse weight
Metal cow weather vane w/ bell
Pig, Horse, Rooster & Cow weather vanes

PETROLIANA SIGNAGE – COLLECTABLES 
Texaco 6’ porcelain double sided sign
John Deere 42”x58” metal sign
Sunoco lighted sign
Metal signs include: DX Sun Ray Oil Company, Greyhound sign & pole, Excide Battery, Kelly Springfield Tires, Dixie, STP, Rath’s Feeds, Multi-Mile Tires, Castle Hall Cigar (2 sided), Goodyear, Firestone, Gargoyle Mobil, Polarine Motor Oil, Bear Wheel Balance, Ethyl, Champion Spark Plug, United Service, American Oil Motor Club, Studebaker Service, United Motors Service, Texaco, Shell, Mobilgas, Republic, Papec Feed Machinery
Texaco cast iron door stop
DX gas station attendant’s coat
Phillips 66 service warden helmet
Dumbo DX poster w/ DX patches
Phillips 66 glass block coin bank
Niehoff metal service center cabinet
United Delco Tune Up cabinet stocked with vintage spark plugs & parts
Anco Wiper cabinet stocked with 10” wiper blades & vintage parts
Antique ash tray/tire collection: Fisk, US Royal, Wapello Oil Co., Firestone, Goodrich Silvertowns, Kelley tire, Goodyear, Bell, McCaskey & others
Various DX, Texaco & local memorabilia, maps & books
Various petroleum die cast cars, trucks, boats & wreckers
Texaco limited edition train set
Assortment of Texaco die cast air planes, NIB
Collection of watch fobs – Ford, Firestone, (2) John Deere pearl, CAT, Rumley, AC, Texaco, Euclid, Herschel Oil, Heider, Polarine, Avery Bull Dog & others
Collection of gas pump salt & pepper shakers

GAS & OIL CANS - EQUIPMENT
Trop-Artic oil can, ½ gal, Manhattan Oil Co.
Sinclair Pennsylvania Motor Oil round can
Texaco embossed copper oil can
Sinclair Oil embossed oil can
Shell Oil embossed oil can
Standard Oil embossed oil can
Central Oil & Grease embossed oil can
Gargoyle Mobiloil “E”, “Recommended for Ford cars” oil can
Iowa Motor Oil can
American Motor oil can
GrafOleum Colloidal Graphite Liquified
Aermotor windmill oil can
Riley Bros, Burlington, IA, windmill oil can
Large quantity of glass oil cans w/ pour out tops including: Havoline, Standard Oil, Mobiloil & more
Large quantity of oil cans & oil company products
Ford, IH, JD oilers
Battery water filtering crock, Napanee Water Filter, Napanee, IN
Schrader Tire, tire gauge display cabinet
Various brass gas pump nozzles
Texaco kerosene/oil dispensing cart, restored
Tire patching tools, restored
Manual tire machine, restored
Back end of tanker truck/wagon made into a cabinet w/ shelves

ANTIQUE MOTOR METERS - RADIATOR SCRIPTS EMBLEMS
Motor meters to include: Hudsen Super Six, Elcar, Kissel, Stephens Salient Six, Packard, Hay Mobile, Paige, Rickenbacker, Velie, Buick, Haynes, Oakland, Reo, Studebaker, Boyce, Apperson, Ford, Radio
Emblems to include: Cole, Flanders 20, Lamberf, Buick, Marmon, Ford, Velie, Krit, REO, Studebaker, Apperson
Leather Iowa License plate, framed w/ metal numbers
Iowa license plate collection, 1911 – present
(6) Illinois license plates, soybean base
Collection of automotive hub caps
Collection of buggy tags
Norway thermometer
Studebaker bumper jack
Framed Studebaker Welcome sign
Studebaker radiator “winter front” louvers

HIT N MISS ENGINES
JD 1 ½ hp
Fairbanks Morris 2 hp, Style Z, self oiling
Fairbanks Morris 3 hp, Style Z, self oiling
Cushman Cub

ANTIQUE FARM EQUIPMENT
Western Wheeled Scraper Co., made by IHC, horse drawn
JD 1 row cultivator, horse drawn
JD 1 bottom plow
JD 2 bottom plow
AC 1 bottom plow
Oliver 1 bottom plow, horse drawn
IH 2 bottom plow
IH hay rake, horse drawn
IH hay loader
Case sickle mower w/ front dolly wheels, horse drawn
1 row cultivator, horse drawn
Garner pull type scraper

CAST IRON TRACTOR SEATS
To include: C.L. Best Gas Traction Co., Champion, Hoosier, Western Roller, Deering Dains, McCormick, Peters, Fuller & Johnson

PEDAL TRACTORS – TOY TRUCK COLLECTION
Case 30 Pleasure King pedal tractor
John Deere pedal tractor
Farmall 400 pedal tractor
Ford 7740 pedal tractor
Buddy L ext. ladder fire truck
Structo Auto Haul toy truck
Structo Transport truck
Structo truck & livestock trailer
Mound Metal Craft truck & trailer
Texaco tanker truck
Texaco gas semi
Mobil gas semi
Tonka AAA wrecker
Nylink wrecker
Mustang cars
Model T center door, cast iron car
Cast Iron car, truck w/ tractor
JD horse drawn bugger w/ horse

RIFLE – KNIVES – SWORDS – WAR MEMORABILIA
Tripplett & Scott, Carbine, Civil War Rifle, Meriden Mfg. Co., 50 cal., breach loader, S/N 3261
US Springfield 45-70 Indian War Rifle US Model 1878, breach loading with sling, S/N 266834
US Army Bayonet for Springfield 45-70, complete with scabbard from Rock Island Arsenal
Numerous antique rifles & shotguns (parts guns)
Signal Service US Army issued collapsible spy glass, Civil war era, Bardou & Son, Paris
Civil War swords
US Army hat, belt, belt buckle
WW II dagger, damascus steel blade
1918 US dagger
(3) WW I knives
WW II US shoulder holster for pistol
(3) Japanese Samurai swords
WW I German sword
(3) WW II German (Nazi) swords
Collection of German Nazi knives, Luftwaffe knife, Paratrooper knife, NPEA Naumburg/Saale
WW I, WW II, German & Luftwaffe war helmets 
(2) Adolf Hilter propaganda books written in German with original pictures from the 20’s & 30’s
Division of Engineers hatchet
Framed 1865 Civil War American Flag (36 stars)
Framed 1846 Proclamation advertising poster soliciting volunteers for the war, Burlington, IA
Framed 1864 poster, Recruiting men, Louisa Co./Wapello, IA
Numerous Civil War “Call to Arms” posters
Collection of dog tags, 1926-1970’s
Assortment of vintage ammunition

SADDLES – BEAR TRAP – SHOP EQUIPMENT
1910 McLeland saddle & 1918 US embossed saddle bags
Forest Edkin Singing Sheriff saddle
Kodiak #6 bear trap
Cast Iron hitching post
Ox Yoke
30 ton shop press
Pneumatic paint shaker on stand
Portable air compressor on trailer, Ford V-8 gas
Sandblasting pod & hose
(3) Dodge 440 engines
Willis Knight engine block, crank, radiator

ANTIQUES – COLLECTIBLES – ADVERTISING – COLUMBUS JUNCTION MEMORABILIA 
Barb wire collection includes over 800 examples of barb wire mounted on display board, dating back to 1868.
Collection of check wire mounted on board
Myers Hay Tools salesman sample hay carrier & unloader
Large antique music box, works (missing crank) w/ “Hark the Herold Angels Sings”, “Stillnight Holy Night”, Oh Christmas Tree
Lawyers glass front bookcase, 5 units
Large safe
E.N. WelchMan, Forestville, CT large wall clock
Antique mantle clocks
Stromberg-Carlson antique wall phone
Kellogg antique wall phone
Coca-Cola thermometer
Liberty wood stove
Wood burning cook stove
Perfection oil heater
Hanging double oil lamp
Louisa County National Bank, Columbus Junction calendar
(2) Louisa Co. & (2) Farmers Savings Bank coin banks
Radiator winter cover for Model T w/ Citizens Bank Wapello, IA advertisement
4TH of July Grand Celebration, Gables Grove, Columbus Junction, IA, framed advertising poster
Other Columbus Junction memorabilia
Cedar Rapids & Burlington Railroad Company 1868 framed stock certificate
Framed picture of Ford Factory, Highland Park, MI
Framed promotional poster for Model A 1928
Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco advertising poster
Lambert & Bulter Smoke “Log Cabin” poster
Little American Licorice Drops Can
Flexible Flier Airline Patrol sled
Collection of oil lamps
Railroad lantern
Dietz Acme inspector oil lamp, Rock Island, IL
Adlake, Chicago, IL non sweating railroad signal lamp
CB&Q railroad hay hook
Small metal boiler
Sunshine Dairy, Burlington, IA milk bottle
L.C. Hill, Col. Jct. collapsible wood egg crate
Buggy lantern light
Iron holders
Coleman gas iron
Large cast boat anchor
Assortment of sleigh bells
Various advertising memorabilia, Rock Island Plow Company, Tobacco advertising
Various implement manuals, AC, IH, New Holland, New Idea.
Various die cast cars, tractors, banks
Misc. small crocks, jars, glass bottles
Antique coils, button dies, tools
Lightning rod & numerous insulators
Coke & Pepsi mounted bottle openers
Winchester roller skates
Winchester flashlight
Collection of Field & Stream Magazines-1940’s
Many other items too numerous to list

Owner: George Bell - 319-728-2430 

For information contact Russ Lamp of Steffes Group, 319.385.2000 or 319.212.0774 (cell)