Iroquois Auctions Massive Historical Onsite Country Estate Auction
June 1st-2nd-3rd, 2018, at 10 AM
Preview 8-10 AM
3263 State Route 5 East,
Schuyler, New York 13340 (Near Utica)

Go to www.auctionzip.com ID# 3542 for 1000-plus photos – Detailed List
(Many more items to be listed) Phone and Absentee bids will be accepted.
A note to our buyers: For over 200 years the Rathbun and Gillette family lovingly protected and preserved their family antique treasures on this 19th-century farm that borders the Erie Canal and the NY Central Railroad. This once-in-a-lifetime auction consists of 1000s and 1000s of family passed down small collections never for sale until now.
Many people have tried to buy items here, but no one has been successful.
The late Beverly Rathbun Gillette was the family matriarch and the founder of the Schuyler, NY, historical society and the preserver of all the family antiques.
The important history of this English family descends from John and Priscilla Alden of the Mayflower to a family member [Basil Rathbone] that was the star of the Sherlock Holmes movies in London, England. Rathbun-Rathbone- Rathburn are all descendants of the same family with similar names.
See details of the family tree on Auctionzip.com ID# 3542. Members of the family have fought in all wars from the American Revolution, including Captain John Peck Rathbun who fought under John Paul Jones as his first lieutenant in the revolution. We have from the family members items from the Civil War, WWI, and WWII wars in the auction (Uniforms, Swords, etc.)
Besides important items there are collections of antiques as follows:
Tools, pens, political buttons, crocks and jugs, postcards, trade cards, advertising signs, motorcycles, frames, prints, paintings, engravings, sterling, gold, and costume jewelry, buttons, clocks, watches, glass, china, toys, children’s furniture, guns, Civil War, WWI, WWII, musical instruments, photos, powder horns, furniture, cupboards, lamps, sewing machines, fabric, clothing, quilts, plates, coins, stereoviewers and cards, dolls, marbles, advertising boxes, cans, bottles, miniatures, tins, wicker chairs, rockers, stands, tables, radios, photographs. Books, handwritten documents, carnival glass, blown glass, railroad items, miniature vases, knives, kitchen utensils and gadgets, canes, umbrellas, arrowheads, bells, stoves, horse tack, trunks and blanket chests, steamer trunks, posters, nudes blocker cards, marble-top furniture, Nazi Germany flags, iron banks, violins, photos, MIB truck and tractor miniatures, advertising mirrors, Hess MIB trucks, pipes, milk bottles, watch fobs, Victorian jewelry, and much more.
Friday’s list is a fraction of what will be sold:
All antique & modern tools, hardware, axes, wood planes, post hole drill, saws, vices, cobbler 19c tools, trunks, bells, candlesticks, door knobs, canning jars, lighting, electric lamps, barn lamps, feed bags, 10+ crocks & jugs, wood boxes,isc furniture of all descriptions, silverplated flatware sets, frames, prints, art tobacco boxes with old content, contents of basement and attic, misc country home items, misc glass, china, primatures, old magazines, modern items, machinery, milk cans and bottles, lots of misc. CHECK AUCTION ZIP FOR LIST.
Sale Order Saturday:
All coins, toys, dolls, childrens items, quilts, books, postcards, trade cards, paper, marbles, buttons, political buttons,antique clothing, trunks, pipes, costume jewelry, 25 non dec. crocks & jugs, misc furniture, salesman sample min. Advertising mirrors, some prints, paintings and engravings.
Very Brief Saturday Highlights:
90% will not be advertised here-see auctionzip.com for lists
Estate coin collection: 17 US Gold to be graded 1800s coins, 22 silver dollars, $184.00 of 90% silver mercury dime collection, collection os of .10, .25, .50 silver 19c coins, .01 & .05 coin collections, foreign coins and misc coins and tokens.
Huge collection of antique & modern toys. 19c childrens collection: Charley Mccarthey, Jasbo Jim and other tin wind ups, Keystone Airmail Ride on Airplane toy, 19c magic lantern, 2 AM Bisque cased 1890s dolls, 40 other antique dolls, childrens furniture & rockers etc., 3 childs wicker fancy vict. strollers, #1725 boys toolbox with tools, Ingersoll Mickey Mouse watch, 20 19c iron banks, over 200+ MIB Farm Tractors, trucks, and HESS Trucks, EX 19c marbles, over 5000 ex postcards, trade cards, stereoviews & trade publications, valentines, posters, early prints, early Teddy Roosevelt political buttons, button collection, miniature adv. Bottles, tins & misc.
30+ Ex hand stitched quilt collection, antique clothing, vintage costume jewelry collection, sterling jewelry & sterling misc, pipe collection, early eyeglasses, trunks, many kerosene 19c finger-table-electric lamps, shades and parts, old keys, lots of souvenir items and prints, paintings, frames, 19c cupboard, rockers, dressers, oak commode, sets of chairs, tables, wall racks, Larkin drop front desk, wooden bowls, firkins, kitchen utensils & lots of misc advertising tins & bottles, GE brass bladed fan, pocket knives, pen collection, early calendars, photo albums and photos, ex estate book collection over 500 books. Daniel Boone leatherbound book, RARE Frankfort 1900s salesman sample photo book of Acme Road Equipment..Lots of early leatherbound books many to be listed on auctionzip.com
Sunday Sale Order (The Best of best): Civil War, Furniture, Art, Gold Jewelry, Pocket Watches, folk art, RR Items, phonographs, musical instruments, clocks, glass & china, guns, primitives, motorcycles, advertising signs, decorated crocks & jugs, finest wicker, iron cook stove, lamps,motorcycles If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call.
Sunday Highlights: 90% will not be advertised here-see auctionzip.com

1842 Ames US Artillery Sword & US Naval Civil War Eagle & Bone 19c Sword, 2 large Nazi German WWII flags captured by family soldier & other Nazi misc. WWI & WWII family US Uniforms, powder horns.over 50 wood antique duck decoys,sporting prints,rr and ship lamps, 3 family Civil War discharge papers, Lincoln Assassination paper, Civil War brass eagle belt buckle with leather, 1832 wooden drum & more CW items. Ex 19c calligraphy of lion, eagle, and deer. All types of ex paintings, prints, engravings, 1875 Seth Thomas double dial calendar clock and 10 other ex clocks, 14k gold ladies pocket watch plus other 19c pocket watches, over 35 pieces of estate gold rings, chains, broaches, gold including scrap gold, diamond rings, iron Shaw & Clark 19c table sewing machine, cannon balls and arrowheads found on this farm! Signed Stickley /Quaint oak library table, 1 door 1830’s milk grain painted tall cupboard, 3 piece walnut victorian bedroom set, 1890s walnut vic cylinder secretary, oak checker board stand, lots of 1 drawer 1830s stands, 1830s ex tiger & birdseye twisted leg sideboard, Utica oak telephone, over 20+ misc tin signs & Petrol tins & misc adv., American flags, 2 1800s dressing mirrors, miniature advertising hand mirrors, Rare Tyler & Dillon Co. Albany, NY 1829-1835 Incised Basket w/2 folk art flowers (out of a local estate)cracked, Paddle Tail Whites of Utica Bird Crock & other decorated unusual pieces. 1830s tiger maple dresser, Victor type M ser#14318 outside horn phonograph & home & gem cylinder phonographs w/10 records each, 175 cylinder records, 3 upright radios, rare Dearborn & Bartlett lap organ #184 1840s Concord NH, 7 Violins: 1 Caspar DA. Salo in Brescia inlaid dated 1595 w/2 bows plus 6 other violins & bows, 7 ex 1800s rosewood & ivory flutes and other musical items. 1834 Family sea voyage from England ship log glued to immigrants trunk (must see), 19c Inlaid tea caddy, Klaxton car el. horn, horn,2 19c wall mirrors, 3 19c min.chests, over 20 plus ex 19c American Indian baskets, hat pin collection, victorian jewelry, 1967 Norton 750cc working motorcycle & other motorcycles, Iron rare Acme Ex. “Sunburst Iron Parlor” Stove, coin op. Los Angeles wood rowe vending machine, Thom. Laughlin Maine ship compass, Pittsburgh Lamp Co Kero Gone w/wind painted lamp plus two colored finger lamps, nice slag glass panel lamp, lots of quality carnival glass, victorian glass and china, Downes 1890s bike seat, 1900s el. Light bulb w/2 horses inside, 20 batter pitched 19c col.Vic. wicker fancy chairs and rocker,tiger maple chairs,1790’s tiger and maple slant front desk,oak morris chair and lot of misc oak furn.,6 board 19th c. blanket chests,Estes ex. Working pump organ,1830’s twisted leg drop leaf table-plus much more.
Guns to include: 3000-Ithaca Lever Action H 49 22 Caliber Ithaca Gun Co. Ithaca, NY Single Shot-Serial Number =none 3001-J.Stevens model 22/410 Caliber w/case over and under Chicope Falls, Mass Rifle Serial Number =none 3002- Ithaca Gun Co. Ithaca, NY 12Ga Pump model 37 shotgun with engraved ducks and pond on both sides- Serial Number=1849982 3003-Model 22A Savage sling bolt action 22 caliber rifle Utica, NY “Sporter” Pat Nov 20, 1917 Serial Number=132124 3004-Ivers Johnson “Champion” & cycleworks single shotgun 16 gauge Serial Number=84255XE 3005,3006,3007- (3)Ithaca 12 Gauge “Deerslayer” pump shotguns Ithaca,NY Serial Numbers=371274912, 371126963, 884651 3008-US Springfield Model 1903 (A60) Bolt Action Serial Number=373590 3009-Stock for rifle only (no gun) 3010-Lefever 12 gauge double barrel shotgun Pistols: 3011- Cased Browning 22 Cal. Automatic Belgium Target Pistol with weights and 2 clips 3012-Smith and Wesson Stainless steel 22 Cal. Revolver pistol 3013-Ruger 22 cal MK2 Long Rifle w/2 clips 3014-Walther 7.65 MM Model PPK Made in Germany 3015-9mm Belgium Browning automatic w/2 clips 3016-colt mk4 series 70 government issue 45 cal automatic pistol 3017-22 Cal. German Revolver
Iroquois Auction
Gerald Petro Auctioneer and Appraiser
Est. 1971
P.O. Box 736, Brewerton, NY 13029
Office@ 315-668-2346 • Cell# 315-561-9777 • Cell# 315-591-1784
• iroquoisauction@gmail.com
Security: Live Police Officer On Site Sale Days with 24-hr. Sentra Closed-Circuit TV system.
No Gold, Coins, or Firearms stored on Property. Viewing will be for sale days only.
All statements made sale day take precedence over printed material.
Catered under tents, chairs provided. All items sold as is with no guarantees or warranties.
Seat reservations recommended, but not necessary.
Directions: Exit #31 Utica of NYS Thruway. Take Route 5 East for approx. 8 miles. Look for signs in
front of farm. Parking on roadway.
We Auction 26 facilities’ worth of items for Life Storage in Syracuse, Rochester, & Buffalo, N.Y. every
month. Check auctionzip for links to each store.
1877s $20 US Gold Coin Plus 17 Other graded gold plus
1000s of other estate coins
100s of antique books, pamphlets, posters, etc.
Victor type M oak outside horn phonograph, plus other cylindertype phonographs and music boxes.
Paddle-tail bluebird 4-gallon crock by N.A. White and Son, Utica, NY, plus 40 other decorated and miscellaneous stoneware.
1900s Metal Pedal Car
Nice collection of 19th-century calligraphy eagle, deer, lion.
Keystone Airmail Ride On Metal Airplane Toy 19th-century tea caddy.
Gillette antique BB, rimfire rifle, black powder shotguns and drilling
U.S. Ames 1842 artillery sword, plus other family war items.
1 of 20+ Antique American Indian & Early Basket Collection
19th-century Acme Sunburst mint castiron parlor stove.
1830s Tiger and birdseye Maple 9 Drawer Sideboard
Collection of ivory and rosewood 19th-century flutes.
3 Piece Walnut 1890s Victorian Marble Top Bedroom Set
Signed Caspar Da Salo dated 1595 violin with bows and case, plus other violins and instruments.
1967 Norton 750cc restorable motorcycle.
Miniature 19thc Advertising Hand Mirrors
Dearborn and Bartlett Melodion lap working organ with case from Concord, N.H.
Over 20 Antique & Modern firearms, and pistols (see auctionzip.com)
Early family sea chest dated 1834 with captain’s handwritten log.
Tyler & Dillon Albany NY Incised Stoneware Jug 9 (with crack) Circa 1829-1834
1875 double-dial Seth Thomas calendar clock plus 10 other clocks.
Part of the 50 plus Duck Decoy  Collection
Shaw and Clark, 1800s, Biddeford, Maine, small iron sewing machine.
Early naval 19th-century eagle motif sword.
1 of over 30+ Hand Stitched Patchwork Quilt Collection
Teddy Roosevelt and bear postcard, plus 1000s of other excellent postcards, trade cards, stereoviews, and lots of trade publications and paper.
1890s Cylinder Victorian Walnut Secretary
Dated 1832 drum with two lion heads and two drumsticks.
14k gold lady’s pocket watch, plus 30-plus lots of diamonds and miscellaneous gold jewelry.
Check out auctionzip.com • I.D. #3542