Estate Auction - Coopersburg, PA

PUBLIC AUCTION
Saturday July 22, 2017 - Auction begins @ 10am
[Preview: Friday July 21 - 1pm until 3pm]
2383 Richlandtown Pike - Coopersburg, PA 18036

Parking is somewhat limited. Please, no large trucks! Furniture and general pickup can be made on Sunday July 23rd, Noon to 3pm, or by other agreement with auctioneer.

This is an on-site auction. Items being sold are from a very clean estate.

Real Estate is not being sold at this auction.

Cub Cadet push mower, Garden tools, Maple Dry Sink - 2 door - Copper lined, Free Standing Victrola w/records, Sewing/Crafts, Necchi Sewing Machine, Costume Jewelry, Variety of Agate items, Advertising tins, Wash tub /w stand (Galv.), Aquarium, Storage Cabinets (Rubbermaid), Shop Vac., Glass top patio table/w chairs, Primitive bench, Var. Milk/Soda bottles, Primitive foot stool, Music CD's and Albums (mostly Country), Pyrex, Corning ware, Fire King, Victorian/Eastlake 8 day clock, Mission Style Clock, Var. Dishes and small appliances, Bakeware, Pots & Pans, Collectible Dolls /Ashton Drake (including; Jill, Justin, Spring Promise, Summer Dream, Brandon, Suzanne, Alyson, Autumn Reflection,Winter Romance. NIB), Winross Die Cast Trucks, Keystone Film Projector, Gun Cabinet, Ertl Tractor 1/16th - NIB, Ertl Tractor 1/43 Model C - NIB, Hess Police Car 1993 - NIB, Mack 1926 Delivery Truck Bank, Mack 1926 Bulldog Bank, Winross Die Cast Semi-Trucks - Several NIB, Charles Chip Step Van (Ralstoy 22), Bieber Bus Bank, Ertl McCormick Farmall Super A 1/16, Holton Trumpet w/case, Small Fishing Reels, C.C.B. Co. Lure - large, 3 Cushion Sofa - Cressman, Lane "Acclaim" Coffee Table, Lane "Acclaim" Side Table, Conn Organ (WITHDRAWN), Round Table w/four chairs (2 leaves), Spanish Mud Dolls, Hummel Collector Club Figures 1990's, Murano Glass Figures, Wall Maps -US Geological Survey-PA, NY, Canada, Bassett Four Piece BR Set, Box Lots and more. We will add items as we find them.

TERMS & CONDITIONS
Cash or PA Check
10% Buyer's Premium
All items sold as is - where is with no warrantee of merchantability express or implied. 

Auction Staff is not obligated to assist in loading vehicles.

Auction Staff is permitted to bid on their own behalf and when executing absentee bids.

All items are to be paid in full before removal from premises.

Purchaser assumes responsibility for items when "SOLD".

The auctioneer is not liable for any injury, damage or loss incurred in connection with the sale.

Statements made on day of auction take precedence over previously written material.

Les Beyer, Auctioneer - PA License #AU005908

Below is just a small sampling of items which will be sold at this auction.

Please see "Auction Calendar" at my website ( click here ) for further details.

What Happens If The 1st On A Saturday?

I've been holding Tailgate Auctions at Weil Antique Center since 2014, and always on the 1st Thursday and the 3rd Thursday, April thru November weather permitting. It seemed a fairly simple schedule when I started. "After a few months", I thought, "people will easily remember".

I've gotten more than one phone call that goes something like this;

Caller, "I saw on (your website /your facebook page) that you have these tailgate auctions. When do you have those?".

Me, "They are held on the 1st Thursday and the 3rd Thursday every month between April and November, weather permitting".

Caller, "Okay, great. I'll come to the first one next month... hey, wait. Next month the 1st is on a Saturday, what happens then?"

From here it generally evolves into an Abbott & Costello type skit.

"But it's on the first Thursday"

  "Yeah, but the first is a Saturday"

"Thursday the 6th, it's always on a Thursday"

  "So it's not really on the first? Why did you tell me it was on the first?"

I don't think there's a person alive who has not been confused like this. I sure have! Just about every time we become confused it's because we didn't really listen. Yes, we hear key words like, "first", "every month" but we miss some of the detail and those missing details are important!

As an auctioneer, it's important that I listen to you, my consignors. I want, and need, to listen to your story. What are you going through? Why are you selling these items? When do you need the work done? These question, and more, are needed in order to help me formulate solutions to help your situation.

Do you need an auction as soon as possible? Maybe we can have an auction right on the property where the goods now are.

Do you need the property cleaned out quickly. Perhaps we can come in and remove the goods going to auction and simply clean out the remainder of the property to make it presentable.

Maybe you just have a few pieces to move on.

You would like to have a garage sale but your H.O.A. won't permit it? We have Tailgate Auctions for that.

Do you want downsize, selling some things but keeping others?

Call me. I'll listen. 484.886.2811

While we specialize in on-site and estate auctions, we are always seeking smaller consignments as well as commercial liquidations.

Nobody Rocks

About a year ago, give or take, I was helping an auctioneer friend on a pick-up.

The lady of the house was very happy to see us, "I've got so much junk to get rid of... and my grandmother's rocking chair which is worth a lot of money". Then she opened the garage door and, there it was!

A rather forlorn looking Windsor style, pine seat, arrow back rocking chair built circa 1976. "I'm sure", she said, "it's worth about $300 but I'll take $250".

While working for a different auctioneer a few days before I saw a rocker just like it. It was amid a pile of other brown furniture that went NO SALE at auction and was on a truck headed for a local thrift store. I learned later that the thrift store refused the rocker as, "too hard to sell".

Rocking chairs, at present, are terribly out of fashion and their value ( at least in Eastern PA and Western NJ ) is less than firewood of equal weight.

Where do people get these asking prices? I know some pretty wild prices show up on ebay but, I don't think this particular lady was an ebay maven. Maybe people just remember how old things sold back in the "hay days" of the 1970's up to around 2005.

Also, I'm confounded by people confusing the term "Vintage" with "Antique". The word Vintage refers to when a wine was made. (ie. Vintage 1988) Vintage, in my mind, needs to be followed with a date. But okay, I'm in the minority and I know it. I'll accept that "vintage" means 10 years old or older, as this is what I see on so many on-line stores.

However, with few exceptions ( motor vehicles, ephemera ) the word ANTIQUE means 100 years old, or older... according to the IRS.

So, a very ordinary rocking chair made in 1976 may be vintage but it doesn't mean it's valuable. We left the rocking chair with that very nice lady since she assured us she could get $200 for it at her next garage sale.

I truly hope she did.

Up Coming Auction

Here is the latest info on my next up coming auction. It looks like it may be a wash out though. Please check auctionzip for updates. And if we do need to cancel because of the rain, we will move the auction to October 23, 2014. Hope you can join us.