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Well, my dad and I made the trip. Not a whole lot of people there, but they were not afraid to spend money. Some stuff went high. Not many bargins, but a few. Proximity to PA probably drove prices higher on items from PA. Most of this was from one estate from Syracuse NY.

Several nice very old cans there. A few items you just do not see. Bidding was strong on those.

A couple repop items went for crazy money. The "baby blue" (ie sun faded) SOCONY aircraft sign went for $900, even after the auctioneer said they were not sure if it was real and that he pulled it off a fench outside at the estate it come out of. The large Ethyl Globe was attractive but was repop lenses in a new metal body. $1150!! The Ripple Jenny was a repop globe. Lenses may have been real. That went for $2250.

Two Visible pumps both Fry's 5 gal and 10 gal. Both original condition, missing parts, 10 gal cylinder cracked. 5 gal $3300 and 10 went for $2700. M&S 80 was a amatuer resto displayed OK, missing quite a few parts. $1300.

The Pegasus Neon I should have stepped up on. $3550. Original Neon and shipping crate.

The Beacon Oils small shield sign was nice. It was real. $1050 on that.

A Pontiac weathervane old. Bidding was spirited on that, $2600.

Several lots of nice old oil bottles. All brought very good money. I bid those Sunoco Dynalubes up to $1000. They were real and very rare. The old Sunoco Mercury oil rack brought 1800. The Sunoco more common oil bottles full rack with new tops brought $500.

I recorded most prices.

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All in all it was a fun day. The auctioneer was very good. He got people to spend money. Met some neat folks, got to spend some time with my dad and even picked up a few items.

I had previewed the auction and was going to phone bid as I was going to the North East gas bash. I decided not to bid after seeing the repop stuff and talking to the auctioneer. I don't think the Mobil horse was old.....I would like to know whos estate from Syracuse it was as that is where I am from and being a collector for over 30 years thought I knew everyone in town

Thanks Matt I was waiting to see the pics. Wish i had went now. Oh well there is always next time.

Thanks for the pics...

Do you recall what the green crown sold for and if it was real? It looks good from the photo but hard to tell 100%!
Thanks,
Darin

John, it was Bob Potter. He was a Fire Insurance guy. He handled the insurance on our fire dept here in Interlaken. I knew him in that regard and knew he had a large collection of fire memoribilia, but had no idea he had the gas and oil collection. It looked like alot of it was aquired in the early 80's. I would say the majority of the stuff was real, but there was some repop stuff in there as well.

The green crown globe was real. I looked that over good. Paint was original and decent, it went for $1300.

Matt, do you know how much the big red Atlantic sign went for? Thanks, Sam

$400

Thanks for sharing this.