Let’s Get this Year Started! | Willmatt Hill Estate Sales and Independent Appraisals

Saturday, March 13

8:30 to 3:00

(numbers at 8:00)

Sunday, March 14

8:30 to 1:30

Join us at this home filled with vast and interesting collections. This is a very packed sale and you’ll want to visit for awhile (pack a lunch) 😊.

Rare and Interesting

Signed check by Thomas A. Edison from his busines, Edison Botanic Research Corp.

Signed Lynden B. Johnson document with Presidential seal.

Bernard Shaw signature with note to his dentist (written on Bernard Shaw note pad).

“Facing East” Folio signed by James Michener and Illustrator Jack Levine. Illustrated with 54 facsimile reporductions of Levin’s watercolors and sketches of scenes and people of Japan. This beautifully kept silk folio (with leather flap and leather portfolio) also includes original lithographs and woodcuts.

WWII ration books and stamps and luggage tags.

Fine Jewelry – includes: 14k, 18k, Sterling Silver, diamonds, David Yurman ring, jadite, rubies, opals, cameos, moonstone, peridot, garnet, pearls, white/black diamond ring, saphires, emerald, Levian Ruby, jade.

Toys

Large collection of tin toys (some vintage, some reproductions, includes Schwin Tin bike and Rolli 230 bike), antique tin and pewter soldiers. Vintage super soakers

Tonka vehicles, vintage Barbie camper, vintage board games,

G.I. Joe ammo box full of clothing, and accessories. Doll house furniture. Rare Rummikub game

Rare “Anchor” blocks No.1 by Richtor & co.

Franklin Mint 1930 Model A Ford

Very unique trolly car “Saint Germain” “Chat Noir, Café Noir”tranports

Mid-Century Furniture

Unique bar stools, coffee table, side tables, dresser with mirror, chest of drawers, chairs and 2-piece sectional.

Men’s Clothing

Vintage golf pants, vintage clothing, shoes, boots, and men’s accessories.

Furniture

Kitchen table (tulip), 3 lucite chairs, Natuzzi white leather sofa, Natuzzi white leather love seat, Barrister book case, side chairs, sunroom cane sofa, love seat, coffee table, side tables, small secretary, wicker chairs, etc. small antique piano with bench

Artwork

Tom Foty “Canoes & Steamboat”, Norman Rockwell “Trumpet Player”, signed , Vanity Fair prints, R. Sunyoz “Gulls/Cabins”, art by Thea Schiach, Oil of Winston Churchill by Alwes, Norman Rockwell “Merry Christmas”(signed), Kouba “Mallards visit Excelsior”, “Two Turtle Doves” signed by Fernandez, 289/780,

Original velvet by Paha Ska, “Sitting Bull” and

Cards and Postcards

Collections of antique cards including Valentines, sports, and military.

Gift Department

Several Swarovski figurines, Vintage Bohemian Glass Vase, Sasaki Crystal Baseball engraved “Twins 1987 World Champions”, Russian lacquer boxes, bronze elephant book ends, petrified wood book ends, geode book ends, Hummels,

Beer steins, antique wooden carved figures, Henry Troemner apothecary scale, Cornelius “American Wildlife”series 85 knife in original box, 1930 Franklin Mint Model A,

University of Minnesota Memorial Stadium brick, golf ball collector wall shelf, Royal Daulton figure mugs, beer steins,

Kitchen/Dining

Dansk “Tapestry” dishes, vintage canisters and dishes, glassware, cups, etc. antique blue/green Ball 1 quart jars,

Furnishings

Mid-century hanging lamps, Murano glass chandelier, lamps, linens, large vintage globe on stand, Western Electric antique wall phone,

Celebrity autographs

Extensive Book Collection

Richard Nixon “6 Crisis” (autographed)

“The Memoirs of Richard Nixon” (autographed)

“Why Not the Best?” by Jimmy Carter (autographed)

“History of Winona” (1913) Vol. I and II

“Russian War” (1856)

“The Campaigns of 1812,1813 &1814” (1820, French Revolution)

“Man without a Country” (autographed) 1889

“Leaving Cheyenne” by Larry McMurtry

James Joyce “Ulysses” 1933

Burl Ives “Wayfaring Stranger” autographed

“The Quality of Life” by James A. Michener (autographed)

“Presidential Lottery” by James A. Michener (autographed)

“Hawaii” by James A. Michener (autographed)

“The Long Winter” by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1^st Addition”

“The Sea Wolf” by Jack London

“The American Songbag” (autographed)

“Shogun” by James Clavell (1^st Addition)

“The Covenant” by James A. Michener (autographed)

“Roots” by Alex Haley (1^st Addition and autographed)

“General Sherman” by Lloyd Lewis (1932 and autographed)

“Noble House” by James Clavell (1^st addition and autographed)

“Keeping Faith” Memoirs of Jimmy Carter (autographed)

Charles Dickens “Master Humphrey’s Clock, 1^st Edition Set of 3, 1840-1841

“The California Angels” (autographed by Gene Autry)

“A Canoe Voyage Up the Minnay sotor” (2 volumes and does not include any maps)

“Return to Paradise” by James A. Michener (autographed)

“1972 Norman Rockwell” By Guptill (autographed)

“The Memoirs of Richard Nixon” (autographed)

“Campfires and Battlefields” (signed by Rev. Francis R. Stark)

“The Art of Walt Disney”

“Beauties” by Harrison Fisher (1913)

“Great Commanders” (1890s, gold leaf, 2 Vol.)

“Personal Memoirs of Ulysses Grant” Vol. I

“Norman Rockwell Limited Edition” #4669/8000, leather bound, mint

“Facing East” – James Michener’s Collection of Japanese prints signed by Michener and Illustrator Jack Levine. Includes “The Floating World” with Michener’s autograph (both rare)

Large collection of Pulp Fiction

Large collection of Map Back books

Large collection of coffee table books, hard cover, paper backs, etc. (many autographed)

- A philographer is the proper word for someone who collects autographs
  
  Large collection of Mapback books
  
  Mapback is a term used by paperback collectors to refer to the earliest paperback books published by Dell Books, beginning in 1943. The books are known as mapbacks because the back cover of the book contains a map that illustrates the location of the action. Dell books were numbered in series. Mapbacks extend from #5 to at least #550; then maps became less of a fixed feature of the books and disappeared entirely in 1951.
  
  Large Collection of Pulp fiction books
  
  Pulp fiction refers to a genre of racy, action-based stories published in cheaply printed magazines from around 1900 to the 1950s, mostly in the United States. … Magazines featuring such stories were typically published using cheap, ragged-edged paper made from wood pulp.
  
  e·phem·era – Large selection
  
  Things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time.
  
  “there were papers, letters, old boxes—all sorts of ephemera”
  
  items of collectible memorabilia, typically written or printed ones, that were originally expected to have only short-term usefulness or popularity.
  
  Minnetonka, Excelsior, Lake Minnetonka historical framed art, maps, etc. (the walls are covered with these treasured pieces of history)

In 1756, During the “Seven Years War”, a sea battle between the English and the French fleets, off Minorca, led by English Admiral Byng.Damage was so bad that no ships were sunk on either side, but the damage in which some of the ships received, seemed to demand a return to Gibraltar for repairs. On arrival, Admiral Byng was sent home, put under arrest and tried by court martial and then shot.These original drawings, ink on linen, were used as evidence at Admiral Byng’s trial. They indicate the position of the English and French fleets at different times on the 20^th day of May, 1756.