An Auction Any Junker Would Love..... Especially Me!

The Sunday before the Junk Bonanza was the annual Miller, Creamer, Heimes and Janssen vintage consignment auction at the fairgrounds in Hartington, Nebraska. Wowzer! what a BONANZA of great stuff. We went to look the day before and knew we had to be there even though I should have been packing the trailers and getting ready to head north.... Feast your eyes upon the junk!!

A great old ringer washer head....

Metal Mason's Root Beer sign.....

My sister Judy was helping me look around, she was amazed by all the great junk.....

Sinclair gas pump glass.....

Meet Alton, he is the Heimes in the auction company and he loves Snickers candy bars, got keep your energy up when dealing with this much junk.....

Here is the Miller and Janssen part of the auction company, they are just trying to keep up with Alton with some burgers and fries....

These were windows that were salvaged from the convent in Hartington some almost 20 years ago and put in storage...... I snagged one of these!

I purchased these old printing stones used to print invoices, checks and statements from around 1910.... don't know the history but these puppies are heavy......

Some cool old theatre seats with stars on the seats.......

Old enamel letters that once adorned an old gas station......

Vintage license plates from Germany.....

Galvanized roof embellishments......

There were several rows with pallets with things stacked on them, a junkers bonanza.....

I loved this old box and the history that it held, this is really a diamond in the ruff, this chest was first build 1839, the lid is full dimension lumber which means it is one piece cut from a single tree, not pieced together, this is simply amazing to me that this has survived this long......

One of the greatest old galvanized ribbed barrels I have ever found....

Wagon wheels.....

Love, love, love this table....

Windmill blade.....

This cupboard sold for $1.00......

Great design......

In Nebraska a sale wouldn't be complete without some fruit jars......

Another great cupboard.....

Banisters.......

Hubcaps......

And last but not least, a little something to haul the goods home in.....

We filled the trailer up so we were glad we stayed all day at the auction, totally worth staying up until midnight loading the trailer so we could head out to the north country. If I was rating auctions I would have to give this one a 10!

You can all wipe the tears from your cheeks now while I roll around in my junk! Keep your eyes peeled, you may see it show up in a place where junk is known to appear.....

Cammie):

A Fun Time Was Had By All ~ Junk Bonanza 2010

Here is is BEFORE the doors open, as we try and fit all we brought into our booth at the Junk Bonanza, boy does that space seem alot smaller when you get there....

We brought over 100 letters for the Bonanza, of course we had to try and spell something!

Ki, Karleen, and her sister who were so excited to get to spell things with giant letters....

Roof ridge, it used to be on the top of an old farm building, they just don't make em like they use to.....

A few accordian players who stopped by our booth, they were not sure what it was at first but soon discovered how it worked.....

Old buggy wheels turned photo/note holders...

The favorite vintage item in our booth was the pinball machine, as you can see, it was a little distacting for my husband, Kelly is waiting on customers and David is playing pinball, humm.....

Some cool old chrome diner stools....

Great old bowling pins...

A view from the corner of our booth.....

Jill trying to carry maps and play the accordian, she really is a jack of all trades!

Widow's walk, this was a popular item also, it use to embellish the rails of the widow's walk porch on old victorian homes....

Pop bottle cap belts made of old new stock pop caps.....

The crew from Daffadowndilly's this year, Grandel and Kelly, both are my neighbors, myself and a friend of mine, Eddy, who owns her own shop over in Hudson.

I would like to thank everyone who helped with our booth this year, and there were many of you, and of course our customers who made our weekend a success, without all of you we wouldn't have a Junk Bonanza. We all owe Ki a huge thank you for the spectacular event she has created, a thank you to my great Bonanza neighbors, and last but not least my husband who tolerates all this for me.

We will see ya all next year, I'm already excited!!

Cammie):