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Books, Ephemera, Postcards
AUCTION
Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 10:00 am
Located at the VFW Building at 156 Hill Street, Lyndonville, Vermont
This should be another fun "Paper" auction, featuring thousands of postcards,  sheet music and vintage magazines with good covers, advertising, lots of old photographs, books,  and collectible Vermont paper.  Included in this sale are train related items from a St. Johnsbury collector and lots of agricultural paper from another local collector.
Postcards:  Local, Vermont, US, foreign.  Victorian holiday and greeting.  RPPC, colorized, and linen.  Humor, military, googly-eyed, squeakers. 
Advertising:  Victorian trade cards, cigarette cards,  local and national receipts - bill heads- cards- pamphlets - catalogs- almanacs- calendars,  agricultural and tool catalogues.
Magazines :  Early agricultural news,  train magazines from the 40's to 90's ,  Boy's Life - 50's,  Youth's Companion 1890's,  Yank Magazine 1945,  Post, Colliers, Life,  etc.
Photographs:  lg. photo of St. Johnsbury Firemen and equipment dated on back 9/3/17,   The Brunelle Paint & Decorating Store (St. Johnsbury),   landscape format of early vehicles believed taken at Montpelier fairgrounds,  nice collection by R C White, photographer - Hawthorne, Fla.  ( family in Calais)  of RR workers - cotton picking- bathing at Magnolia Springs,  lots of early photos by local   Vt. photographers - Newport- St. Johnsbury- N. Troy- Morrisville - Barre-etc.
Books:  2 vol. set 1927 Encyclopedia of Free Masonry, 2 vol. Official Gazette of the US Patent Office 1886,  4 vol. set Abraham Lincoln - The War Years by Sandburg,  2 vol set Beautiful Women in Art,  History of Baptists in Vermont -Crocker 1913, VT histories, town histories,  classical literature,  children's books and series,  how-to books, cookbooks , set of McGuffy readers, early Bibles large and small, scouting books and manuals, genealogy, atlases, hunting & fishing, textbooks, mid century detective stories, and so many more.
Misc:  Scrapbooks - including those of serviceman stationed in Libya and Viet Nam, European stock certificates and paper money from 1898 -1920's,  journals, sheet music, vintage holiday cards, stereoscope view cards, posters,
 
TERMS; CASH OR GOOD CHECK            NO BUYER'S PREMIUM     6% SALES TAX w/o resale #        LUNCH AVAILABLE
AUCTIONEERS;  Lussier Auction Service, Lyndonville, Vt.                802 535 6100           802 626 8892
Preview:  Friday, March 2, from 3pm to 6pm. and sale morning from 8:30 until sale begins.  Directions:  Exit 23  I91 - Rt. 5 north to stop light in downtown Lyndonville -right up hill.  Follow auction signs from stop light.