Antique Road Show at Binghamton July Fest

Binghamton's 47th annual July Fest takes place this year on Friday, July 10, 2009 from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm and on Saturday, July 11, from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm. Visitors will enjoy artists-in-action, arts & crafts booths, fine art exhibits, children's activities, live music, food vendors, the second annual Parlor City 5K Run, the second annual Pirohi Day, and more. And best of all, our own Bob Connelly will conduct a free Antique Road Show appraisal clinic for antiques and collectibles on both Friday, July 10 from noon to 6:00 pm and on Saturday, July 11 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Experts familiar with coins, jewelry, art and memorabilia will be on hand to offer Auction Estimates, i.e. the approximate price range an item might realize if offered at an appropriate auction. For more about the Fest, consult the July Fest brochure [PDF: 5.4 MB], check the City of Binghamton website for updates, or contact event coordinator, Dave Pessagno at 607-761-2475. For more about the Antique Road Show, contact Bob & Sallie Connelly at 607-722-9593.

Antique and Collectibles Auction

Bob & Sallie Connelly will conduct an Antique & Collectibles Auction at the Showplace in Binghamton on Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 10:00 am with a preview at 9:00 am.

Selling AS IS without reserve, with a 10% Buyer's Premium, are banks, including an organ grinder and performing bear mechanical bank with original paint in outstanding condition and a U.S. Mail bank with combination lock; toys, including a 13" coupe by Dayton Friction Toy Co., 40 pieces of Elastolin composition WWI British band toy soldiers, circa 1935, also 8 Indians, several Tootsie Toy and Wyandotte cars and trucks, a Wolverine diving submarine with box, and a Midgette Movie Theater with 8 movies and box; trains, including Lionel (2321 Lackawanna, 1862 General, 2065 and 2025 steam engines) and Marx windups; games, including Battleship 1938, Agate Railway Bagatelle marble game, Uncle Wiggily, Peter Coddle's Trip, 1936 Popeye Paint Set, many boxed; and Disney, including 42" motorized 1934 papier mâché display of Minne Mouse combing her hair, Mickey Mouse hobby horse, and 8" papier mâché Bashful.

Click for a slideshow of the Mechanical Bank with organ grinder and performing bear.

Also watches, including five gold mechanical wristwatches from Patek Philippe, Omega Constellation, Longines, and Omega Seamaster, four with gold bands; military, including an 1858 Walch Navy revolver, #117/200, a German leather spike helmet, a French Coulaux sword, and an 1877 French bayonet; stoneware, including five blue decorated pieces by Whites; scientific and optical instruments, including 19th century McAllister telescopes, U.S. Signal Service binoculars, and a transit by Keuffel & Esser, NY, Pat. 1891; and musical, including a table-mounted Swiss music box with six 6-tune cylinders, a 15.75" oak Regina music box with three disks, a Martin saxophone, a Westminster flute, and a Chickering grand piano.

The auction includes several military swords. 1. French sword, signed Coulaux; no scabbard. Image of guard in slideshow.  2. German sword with scabbard; possibly WWI.  3. German SA dagger in sheath, inscribed "Alles für Deutschland"; RZ in circle, M7/37.  4. French bayonet with scabbard, dated 1877, signed ST. ETIENNE.  5. U.S. bayonet; M8 A1.  6. Arab-middle eastern headsmen sword; replaced handle; gold inlay in very good condition. Two images in slideshow.  7. 19th century Arab dagger, sheath and original shoulder cord. Additional image in slideshow.

And Indian artifacts, including over 3000 points, arrowheads, axes, pestles, pipes and three fragments of Peru textile, circa 1400; clocks, including 8-day German ship clock, oak gingerbread, 8-day and 30-hour Ogees, Steeple and miscellaneous parts; furniture, including Empire mahogany secretary, Federal style mahogany secretary, Empire dressers, server, sofa, and set of five barrel fiddle-back chairs, dough box on legs, three Victorian arm chairs, Ogee mirror, and two mahogany slant top desks; miscellaneous, including a 17.5" American burl bowl, Majolica, a Roseville planter, pair of Currier & Ives First Smoke All Right/All Wrong prints, a primitive oil porrait, and assorted glass and china.

Selling at 12 noon are two automobiles: a 1965 Mercury Comet convertible, red, no rust, 98% restored, and a 1986 Ford LTD Crown Victoria LX, 74k miles, fully loaded, inspected and licensed.

Additional details, photos, directions and a more complete list of items are available in the auction brochure [PDF: 287 KB] and in photo set I and photo set II (PDF: 404 KB and 348 KB).

Absentee and phone bidders for this auction must be pre-registered, and bids must be received by 5:00 p.m. (EST) Saturday, December 8. Additional information is available on the Bid Form.

Appraisal Clinic at Margaretville Cauliflower Festival

Bob & Sallie Connelly will conduct an Antique Appraisal Clinic on Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., rain or shine in the History Tent at the 5th Annual Margaretville Cauliflower Festival in the Margaretville Village Park (behind the A&P) . Admission to the Festival is free; the appraisal fee is $4.00 per item, $10 for three items, with the proceeds going to benefit the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown, Delaware County, NY.

The Festival features produce vendors and restaurants -- both with lots of cauliflower -- a cauliflower cook-off, music, crafts and children's activities. To get there from New York City, Albany and New England take NYS Thruway, I-87 to Exit 19 for Kingston, then Rte 28 west toward Pine Hill for 43 miles, turning right into Margaretville Village. From Binghamton and West, take I-88 east to Oneonta, then Rte 28 east toward Delhi for 47 miles, turning left into Margaretville Village. Additional information is available by email, by phone at 800-586-3303 or 845-586-2219, and in the Cauliflower Festival Poster [PDF: 624 KB].