Saturday, November 22, 2014

Mega Blowout in Brookfield!

This is the weekend of the estate sale for my late Uncle Frank and Aunt Mary Lou. Though the sale is being professionally run by Lynn's Home  Estate Sales (see her website link below) , Merikay and I helped out a bit.

This may have been one of the last public appearances of Judy Baar Topinka. She was known for frequenting estate sales in her area and sure enough she showed up. Sadly, my picture of her was too blurry to include here.

Lynn and her merry mob of helpers always do a fantastic job of staging the house and every room was packed with goodies. Here they are getting ready for the onslaught


 

The main attraction besides magic paraphernalia , was my uncle's camera collection, including choice Hasselblad and Leica examples.



 
 

 The Garflex 23



Plenty of film developing tanks. There were also several professional lamps and enlargers.




 Hammond Organ in excellent condition.



 

The attic was challenging but worth the effort.



Dale guards the basement.

Plenty of camera equipment, old books and magazines.




Rare photo of yours truly was expected to go for top dollar. (but didn't)



Tickle Me Elmo in with box!
Cousin Sue got all the good stuff.



 Vintage Lady dresses to the nines when she attends sales.


This was day 2 and the line to pay rarely let up.



I'm surprised nobody grabbed these first edition Mad paperbacks on Day 1. The Mad Reader was the very first Mad paperback and this is first printing.


 Tomorrow (Sunday) the whole thing wraps up.

Lynn's Home Estate Sales

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