This Miami Pop Festival concert poster from 1968, featuring Jimi Hendrix as a headlining entertainer, is among the many rock ‘n’ roll items up for auction in an April 1-3sale hosted by Philip Weiss Auctions.

OCEANSIDE, N.Y. – No sooner had Philip Weiss Auctions closed the books on a huge weekend multi-estate sale March 4-6 than one just as big was being planned for a month later. The firm will host a massive, three-day event April 1-3 at its spacious gallery facility, located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, where hundreds of quality, fresh-to-the-market lots will cross the block.

The action will kick off at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 1, with an evening sale dedicated to postcards, paper, autographs and rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia. The following day—Saturday, April 2, starting at 10 a.m. —the spotlight will shine on folk art, Native American items and militaria. The Sunday session will feature stamps, coins, transportation, aviation, automotive and maritime.

Online bidding will be facilitated by Proxibid.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted.

Friday, April 1, will be dominated by postcards and rock ‘n’ roll. The postcards will include the sale of the Charlie and Nellie Huttunen collection—more than 270 quality lots, comprising thousands of real photo cards, with an emphasis on Long Island, aviation, the logging industry, holidays and more. Also sold will be cards from various estates, all of them fresh-to-the-market.

The rock ‘n’ roll items will feature great Beatles memorabilia, to be sold as individual lots. Included will be a rare Super 8 film of the Beatles in concert in Johanneshovs Isstadion in Stockholm, Sweden, taken July 28, 1964, with the original program; a numbered edition copy of the iconic “White Album” (#2938) and a rare first pressing of the “Magical Mystery Tour” double EP.

Other rock ‘n’ roll pieces will include a 1968 Miami Pop Festival concert poster starring Jimi Hendrix; a 1966 Wilson Pickett cardboard concert poster; a 1966 Otis Redding cardboard concert poster; a scarce “TCB” child’s necklace that was given away by Elvis Presley; a grouping of performance contracts signed by Presley; some vintage rock ‘n’ roll handbills and other items.

A nice collection of antique fire helmets will be sold in the Saturday session, April 2, at 10 a.m.

The Saturday session, April 2, will feature two Cigar Store Indians. The first, attributed to Samuel Robb, circa1900, stands six feet tall and is hand-carved and painted. The other, named “Chief Poke in the Nose” (circa 1890s), once stood guard at the Schweizer Sporting Goods & Cigar Store in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. It stands over seven feet tall and is hand-carved and painted.

Also offered on Saturday will be the very chess set used by Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in their legendary 1972 championship match in Reykjavik, Iceland. The set is signed by both men. It had been given in 1972 to the president of the Icelandic Chess Federation. Also sold will be love letters written by Mr. Fischer, a genius and notorious recluse. He died in 2008.

Militaria in the Saturday session will include Civil War photos, vintage weapons, military uniforms and buttons. Also sold that day will be a collection of antique fire helmets, some Native American artifacts, a group of important Carl Moon photos, an S. Kitson plaque and other items.

Sunday, April 3, starting at 10 a.m., will be a full day, packed with quality collectibles. Ocean liner memorabilia will include Emmanuele Luzzati’s nine-piece hammered brass panel “Bacchanalia” from the bar and grill of the SS Stella Solaris (93 inches by 98 inches); a scarce first-class deck plan from the Titanic; and over 2,500 lots of ocean liner paper and post cards.

A trove of ocean liner memorabilia, including a first-class deck plan for the Titanic, will be sold.

Other ocean liner items will include an R.M.S. Olympic travel vanity, several large framed ship’s portrait signs, tins, ship servers, silver pieces and material from the Bushnell collection. Nautical items will feature prints, paintings and more. Railroad and transportation lots will include lanterns, calendars, ephemera, prints and more. All that plus many stamps and coins.

Sunday will have a nice selection of estate coins. One lot expected to do well is a set of 1883 Hawaiian coins (all four values, higher grade). Stamps will include a sheet of atomic bomb stamps, signed by all members of the Enola Gay flight crew. The aviation material will include many signed pieces, by names like Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh and other flight pioneers.

On Thursday, April 21, at 2 p.m., Philip Weiss Auctions will conduct a fine estate sale. Already consigned is a phenomenal single-owner silver collection, original artwork (to include an oil on wood by Ilya Bolotowsky, signed and dated on the bottom edge), a pair of Minton pate-de-sur-pate plates by Tiffany & Co., a Xanti Schawinsky acrylic and synthetic fiber assemblage, a signed Tiffany Favrile bowl, a St. Gaudens bronze relief plaque, and a Tiffany lamp and vase.

For more information about this auction, call 516.594.0731, e-mail to phil [at] prwauctions [dot] com or visit the To Philip Weiss Auctions web site.

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Auctioneer Tim Chapulis with a guitar signed by the members of the rock group Jay & the Americans, just one of several pieces of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia items to go up for auction to benefit the Litchfield Firehouse.

LITCHFIELD, Conn. – Items gathered from private homes, family estates, important collections and even the contents of a safety deposit box will be auctioned off later this month to help pay for the finishing of the interior of the new addition to the Litchfield Firehouse.

The auction, to be held on Saturday, Nov. 21 at the firehouse, will be conducted by Tim’s, Inc., of nearby Bristol. The sale will feature sports cards, coins and stamps, rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia, artwork, autographed items, collectibles and more.

“This will be no average fundraising auction,” said Tim Chapulis of Tim’s, Inc., himself a resident of Litchfield. “In many ways it will be a somewhat smaller version of our Cabin Fever Auction, held every spring at the Litchfield Firehouse.”

The two-story, 2,150-square-foot brick addition to the existing firehouse was started in April and completed at the end of August. It comprises a meeting room, two offices, a storage room, two rest rooms and a communications room that is 90 percent complete. But much is still needed to complete the job, and that’s where the auction comes in.

The money would go toward interior walls, heating and air conditioning, electricity and phone service, insulation, carpeting, furniture, artwork and other decorations and appointments that will make the current shell habitable.

“The work will take six months to complete,” said Litchfield’s Fire Chief James Koser, “We’d like to stud the walls and install the plumbing within three weeks of the auction.”

The first hour of the sale (from 5-6 p.m.) will be dedicated to sports cards, coins and stamp collections. The antiques and other items will follow, starting at 6 p.m. The contents of the safety deposit box includes dazzling estate jewelry, including a stunning 1-carat single stone lady’s diamond ring, appraised at more than $5,000, an antique gold men’s gold pocket watch in a hunter’s case, and estate gold and silver jewelry.

Also sure to get paddles wagging is an outstanding group of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia items.
Included in the group is a guitar signed by members of the rock group Jay and the Americans; a Martin Sigma folk guitar signed by Merle Haggard, Toby Keith, Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, members of the group Trick Pony and others; sheet music signed by the late guitar legend Les Paul, with matching framed record; and a Les Paul-signed poster for his CD “Chasing the Sound” with an accompanying DVD.

Vintage cylinder music box (circa 1880s), with bells and butterflies and bees inlay, in rosewood case.

Other rock ‘n’ roll items include a photo signed by five of the six members of The Marshall Tucker Band; a red Mercedes-Benz edition bottle of Jim Beam whiskey, never opened and signed by Jay and the Americans; a Telecaster model guitar signed by Willie Nelson and Les Paul; and a 78 rpm record and photo of ’50s icons Bill Halley and the Comets, signed by Halley and members of the group. Also offered will be a pair of Charles A. Lindbergh autographs, both signed and dated 1972, when the famed aviator was nearing the end of his life.

A private collection of some 20 pieces of Hitchcock furniture (made in Connecticut; the company is no longer in business) will include a tall chest of drawers with cherry finish and stenciled design; a Harvest pattern bed; a Queen Anne lowboy; an entertainment cabinet for TV and stereo; and a table with four matching chairs in a nice stenciled decoration. “It can’t be overstated how beautiful Hitchcock furniture is,” Chapulis said.

Also sold will be a great collection of sports memorabilia, to include a photo and framed baseball card, signed by Mickey Mantle; multiple lots of baseball and sports cards; collectible baseball plates; and wall plaques, figurines and statues. The auction will also feature a Regina oak music box with 30 discs, in original finish, and another cylinder music box (circa 1880s) with bells and butterflies and bees inlay and other decorations, in a rosewood inlaid case.

Beautiful vintage clocks will cross the block, with offerings to include a Howard Miller signed on the dial 3-weight grandfather clock that plays music, an Atmos clock, an unusual wall-hanging gingerbread-style clock in a carved oak case, other antique wall clocks and more. Also auctioned will be Oriental carpets (some of them Persian, all high quality) and some gorgeous, clear Arts and Crafts period leaded glass windows with nice designs.

Turn-of-the-century silver spoons, along with a letter written by the sender (John P. Kennedy), will be among the items up for bid.

Bidders will also be treated to an unusual collection of early coin 800 silver flatware and spoons dating to the 18th century (around 250 pieces, much of it made in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts). One of the more unusual lots is a pair of turn-of-the-century silver spoons, sent via air mail from the noted writer John P. Kennedy to Mrs. Hugh L. Thompson of Waterbury, Conn., in 1959, along with an accompanying letter he penned to her. Coins will feature a collection of proof uncirculated U.S. American Eagle silver coins (1986 to near-present), Indian Head gold coins (1909 $5, a pair of 1913 $2-1/2; 1928 $2-1/2, 1910 $2-1/2, 1914 $2-1/2, 1929 $2-1/2), silver Mercury dimes, silver dollars, Walking Liberty half-dollars and Franklin half-dollars. Also sold will be two big stamp albums and a boxful of stamps from another collection.

From a prominent Litchfield home, the following items will be sold: a two-piece Queen Anne highboy, a two-piece secretary desk, early lighting (to include very nice Victorian-era banquet lamps, two of them signed Bradley & Hubbard, in original oil, with ball shades with flower decorations and champleve enameling), and a monumental oil portrait by the noted, listed artist (and one-time Litchfield resident) Roland Lee Anderson (1929-2002), imposing at more than 7 feet tall. Anderson maintained studios in New York City and Palm Beach, Fla. He studied at the Baltimore School of the Arts, where he trained under painters versed in the techniques of the Old Masters. He became famous as a painter of judge’s portraits. The portrait to be sold, executed in 1966 of an unknown subject, was reportedly used as a prop in a movie, but which one? Perhaps someone reading this can solve the riddle. Another artwork that should wow the crowd is a variant print of an 1854 folk art piece titled “Tree of Life,” measuring 31 inches by 24 inches in a nice oak frame. The work was originally executed by the renowned Shakers of Pennsylvania.

Collection of proof uncirculated U.S. American Eagle silver coins (1986 to near-present).

Rounding out the list of top lots: a collection of early black and white photos, some depicting Thomaston and Plymouth, Conn., and some featuring GAR (Grand Army Republic) soldiers; a Stanton Hall pattern Meeks lady’s chair, laminated in rosewood (circa 1860s); a 1950s-era red Coca-Cola vintage cooler; and a leather-bound copy of Herman Melville’s classic book, “Moby Dick” (Random House, 1930), desirable to collectors because it was illustrated by Rockwell Kent. A preview will be held two hours before auction, from 3-5 p.m., when all lots may be viewed. At press time, Tim’s, Inc., was still seeking goods, services and donations from local merchants to make the auction a success.

All sales will be subject to an 18 percent buyer’s premium. Terms are cash, known checks, Visa, Master Card and Discover cards. Admittance to the auction and preview will be a donation of $5 per person, which will go to benefit the Litchfield Volunteer Fire Department. The fire department building is located at 258 West Street (Route 202) in Litchfield, located not far from the Litchfield town green and next to CVS Pharmacy.

For more information about this auction, visit the Tim’s, Inc. Web site, call (800) 255-8467 or e-mail to tims [dot] inc [at] snet [dot] net.

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