You’ll find items that are practical, delectable, delightful, and inspirational. – Grace Cottage’s Cabin Fever Online Auction is a perfect way to bring fun and joy to your winter. For any further information, the phone number for Cabin Fever is 61 or 80.TOWNSHEND, Vt. Go to the Auctionzip website to view all of Cabin Fever’s upcoming auctions, and also to view their bidboard auctions that are conducted monthly on Weavertown Road in Amity Township. Upcoming auctions are a great opportunity to stock your business or just to add some antiques to your home decor. The Fred and Dottie’s liquidation auctions are open to everyone, both dealers and the general public. (These were great to cover up with even indoors due to the cold-weather day of the sale.) Lots of up to six new fringed afghans at $7.50. Metal, brass and wood fireplace fenders ranged from $10 on up. (The auctioneer said this was the great buy of the day.) Two cases of new porcelain-doll repros at $15 for all. Two framed needlepoints, one of the Last Supper, at $35.Ī box of tin molds, including rabbits, fish, etc., at $30. (Quite dusty, but I’m sure the buyer had plans to make them gleam.) Some of the other merchandise that day and the bids they achieved are as follows:Ī half-circle piece of marble and a long narrow slab of slate went up to $120.Ī set of six antique chairs with arms at $45. Another top lot was a glass-enclosed, large oak-floor showcase for which bidding ended at $300. Also, in the line of clocks, some chimed out at very substantial bids, among them: a large Regulator clock at $625 a wooden calendar wall clock at $400 a mother-of-pearl wall clock at $110 and a very nice, wood steeple clock at $50. The winning bidder paid $310 plus buyer’s fee. It would have looked perfect in a Victorian mansion. Just one highlight among many of the sales was an immense gold-framed oil painting of a lady. Blue pitcher-and-bowl washstand sets averaged in the $12-to-$20 range. Two large, blue-covered cheese dishes along with two covered compotes in a similar pattern sold for $20. Very unusual tall, blue-china, gold-trimmed decanters in the shape of young Colonial soldiers sold in lots of four for $12.50 to $17. There was an abundance of blue hand-painted porcelain. There were many bargains to be had, such as a box of Royal Doulton china that went down at only $7.50. some gold-leaf decorated and some carnival, sold at $17.50. For example, two boxes of fine china dishes. Tall white wire-flower stands went to bidders at anywhere from $10 to $20.Īmong the volumes of boxed items of just about every antique you can think of, there were numerous boxes of porcelain and china pieces. A great tray lot of of utensils and serving pieces, some silver plate and some with bone or mother-of-pearl handles, brought $90. A few box lots of filigree serving dishes and metal trays brought $35. A lot of five pewter teapots reached a final bid of $22.50, followed by another grouping of four similar teapots, most of these tarnished, at $7.50. March 7, and probably there will be more of them after that until everything in the warehouse is sold. If you or someone you know would like to go, there is another sale coming up starting at 10 a.m. 7, I had the pleasure of attending one of these scheduled clearance sales at Fred and Dottie’s. These trends were set primarily by the demands of the public to decorate with the hottest styles of the time.ĭue to the short supply of antiques in the marketplace, people chose and still choose reproductions, which have the same look, and are often of better quality than the originals, at a fraction of the price. One would need to present his or her business ID number, and there were individual lockers with a key for purses and satchels to be checked before one entered.įred and Dottie’s was very successful in its day, since glassware and other reproductions were extremely popular in the 1960s and 1970s, followed by Depression glass repros in the 1980s. I have fond memories of having shopped there many years ago with some of my dealer friends, as they purchased inventory. If you are a dealer of antiques, no doubt you have done business with this wholesale warehouse in the past. Boxes are still being unpacked, and up for bid are clocks, glassware, porcelain, metalware, furniture, lighting, pottery, dolls and much more. The auctions consist of a huge quantity of thousands of lots, most with the sale stickers still on them, that have been untouched and in storage since 1970. The task has been delegated to Cabin Fever Auctions, a company with an excellent reputation in the auction world.Īfter more than 50 years in the antique and reproduction business, Fred and Dottie’s has closed its doors. The liquidation of the remaining inventory of Fred and Dottie’s Wholesale Antiques and Reproductions at 6711 Perkiomen Ave., Exeter Township, is in full swing.
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