William May Specialty Auction
Ephemera
Broadsides/Historical/Political
Baseball/Sports/Advertising/Books
Gum – Tobacco Cards/Magazines
Saturday, April 9, 10 am
Frank Jones Center, Portsmouth, NH

Previews: Fri, April 8, Noon-2 pm & Day of Sale 8 am
Historical: Broadsides, Broadsides!! Lifetime collection. Over 50! dating back to Civil War era. Auction broadsides from towns dotting the NE landscape. Farm, Dry Goods, R.E., Timber Sales among many from Derry, Milford, Peterborough NH to Springfield and Spencer MA to Wells and York Beach, ME, just to name a few. A fascinating look back. Multiple sizes. Wonderful relics. Great historical artifacts and conversation pieces. Refer to catalog list-ings for all dates, townships and types of auctions.
Historical/Political: 1821 Vermont School girl map; Bayley family records from Maine/Mass., both w/significant history dating back to 1700s; Civil War era letter w/photo; 1860 Lincoln ferrotype campaign pin; “Confederacy in Petticoats” print; 1945 Iwo Jima attack orders. Baseball: T-201, 205, 206 tobacco cards, Playball, Fleer, Topps BB cards, 1940s to 1980s; 1943 NY stamps; 30 total Red Sox team sets complete from 1975 to 2004 in NM cond!, many lots; many Star and HOF cards; BB Memorabilia: Glory of their Times/ L. Ritter, Smokey Joe Wood lots; 19th C BB prints, BB games; Auto’d Negro League poster; Joe D. auto’gh; Sports: Harvard/Yale and addl collegiate lots; A.B. Frost/D. Adams golf prints; football/hockey/boxing/addl sports cards; Gum/NonSport: 1930s Horrors of War and Indian Gum complete sets!, many addl gum lots; E. Presley, Freedoms War, JFK, Jets & Rockets, Arm & Ham-mer & more; full unopened wax boxes, ET, Dal-las, Three’s Company, more; Tobacco: N458 Hard-a-Port, T129 Red Man, T-Lighthouse sets; Mecca Boxers T218/220; tobacco silk lots; tobacco bins; cigar boxes/cutters; crate labels; pinbacks, over 200!; Advertising: Calendars: Coca-Cola 1916, 1938, 1940, 1948, 1945 Max Parrish Bean Farm, 1949 RC Cola, Brown & Bigelow Dog/Poker, original Drummond, Red Man, Mayo’s Plug Tobacco advertising; 1940/41 Coca-Cola trays, 7204, Fatima, JOB, Murad, Joe Camel; Magazines: Life, S.I., Sat Eve Post, Delineator, Mad, Nude; Postcards: Baseball/Stadium, Amer Indian, WWI, WWII, German, Adv, Maine, NH/Wht Mtns, Boston, MA; Comics: Golden Age, 1940s to 70s incld #1 Bill Boyd, Sports Pulps, Dick Merriwell early pulp series; Post-ers: Movie incl Star Wars, Butch Cassidy, A League of their Own, WWI, Theatre, Woodstock; Books: Signed Presiden-tial; H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, signed John Glenn, W. Cronkite, books, NY at Gettys-burg vol I, II, III, old book lots, several baseball, C. Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, addl BB by Chadwick, Z. Grey, Barbour and Lefty Locke series, auction, children’s and Big Little Books; Prints: N. Rockwell, M. Parrish, Icart, Boy Scout, W. Nutting, F. Frazetta; Photos: Cabinet and addl sizes, movie stills, nudes; Additional: 1928 Gilbert White Truck Erector set w/multi catalogs, several railroad, stereoview, sheet music lots, orig artwork by Elrod, Leonard and Hel-fanto, 14K gold tipped pen, Exhibit/Candy/Food/Trade card lots, Almanacs, Advertising Booklets, 4/15/1865 newspaper, pocketknives, toys, many types of sports ephemera and misc catalogs, 13 star Amer flag, 1930s German card album, 1860 encyclopedia, 1990s un-opened BB, Coca-Cola, Blue and Gray nonsport cards. Partial list. Much more. Hundreds of vintage cards. Still adding merchandise. Check catalog listings.
Call Auctioneer William May 603-539-4507 for further info. Absentee bids accepted on or before Thursday, April 7. Refer to www.auctionip.com (ID 3432) for additional photos and complete auction listings
Terms: Credit Cards, Cash or Check 18% Buyer’s Premium discounted to 15% for cash or check
Directions: From I-95, take exit 5 to Portsmouth Traffic Circle, bear right at Route One Bypass South, turn left at second light to Frank Jones Center located at 400 Route One Bypass.
NH Lic #2979, #5001