Amish Auction
Last year on the Forth of July, Mark was in Amish country picking up our pergola kit at Miller Brothers. On the way home he just happened on the Hochstetler 13th Annual Fourth of July Weekend Antique and Antique Tool Auction. He called and held the phone up so I could hear the auctioneers...two barns, two auctioneers. At that very moment I knew where I was going to be come next Fourth of July.
I love old barns. I love this one especially because there is a quilt pattern painted on the front. Someday......We were driving down a two lane road out in the middle of nowhere (Winchester, Ohio) to pick up Tyler and Sabrina, my nephew and his lovely just pregnant bride, at The Rooster's Nest...a really quaint log cabin bed and breakfast...being 'inn-sit' by Kim the former owner and my new best friend. We go along like we had known each other for ever...coffee on the back porch over looking the little fishing pond. I could live there! Any hoo...we picked them up and were off to the Auction. 
I would have loved to take pics of all the little Amish children dressed in their hats and bonnets but I just felt like I was invading their privacy, so you won't see too many of those. What you will see is what old farmers do while they are waiting for the auction to get to the things that they want to bid on...sleep. This farmer slept most of the day away. I don't know how he did it because it was noisy and the smoke from the grill was right on us. Ahhh, love that grill smell. And the food tasted great!
There were at least four auctioneers. They were fast and funny. There were over 500 lots...in auctionese that means that there were 500 different items for all of us to bid on. Each item was held up for us to see and there were some stories that went along with them. Makes for a long, fun day. Tyler was a riot. He looked at stuff more that three times I know. He really got into the bidding. He came home with two Ellis Funeral Homes fans, two gas cans (who knows why), two blue bottles and a beautiful kerosene lamp. He bid on lots of other stuff but I think he was happy with his treasures.
Always one for literature...I brought everything home to go thru it again. Tyler's bidding number, a brochure from the Bed and Breakfast and the receipt for our two big purchases.
We bid on some things but the prices were just a little too rich for our blood. We did end up with three box lids of old canning lids (who knows why we got these...I am hoping that I can make some wind chimes out of the) and about ten licence plates from Ohio and Indiana. Two of the oldest ones are already mounted on the side of the barn. Mark has us lined up for another auction next weekend...he loves having his weekends off for now). The next one has three barns going at the same time.
But before I finish this blog I have to tell you to check out the link above for the auction. The butter churns pictured, the four purplish ones in the picture...just those four...) went for ...are you sitting down...$6,500! No kidding! I about dropped my teeth. And the Stanley #1 plainer went for $1,100. I kid you not! And I am looking for old license plates, old silverware, old ladders and windows...that is probably a good thing.
I love old barns. I love this one especially because there is a quilt pattern painted on the front. Someday......We were driving down a two lane road out in the middle of nowhere (Winchester, Ohio) to pick up Tyler and Sabrina, my nephew and his lovely just pregnant bride, at The Rooster's Nest...a really quaint log cabin bed and breakfast...being 'inn-sit' by Kim the former owner and my new best friend. We go along like we had known each other for ever...coffee on the back porch over looking the little fishing pond. I could live there! Any hoo...we picked them up and were off to the Auction. 
I would have loved to take pics of all the little Amish children dressed in their hats and bonnets but I just felt like I was invading their privacy, so you won't see too many of those. What you will see is what old farmers do while they are waiting for the auction to get to the things that they want to bid on...sleep. This farmer slept most of the day away. I don't know how he did it because it was noisy and the smoke from the grill was right on us. Ahhh, love that grill smell. And the food tasted great!
There were at least four auctioneers. They were fast and funny. There were over 500 lots...in auctionese that means that there were 500 different items for all of us to bid on. Each item was held up for us to see and there were some stories that went along with them. Makes for a long, fun day. Tyler was a riot. He looked at stuff more that three times I know. He really got into the bidding. He came home with two Ellis Funeral Homes fans, two gas cans (who knows why), two blue bottles and a beautiful kerosene lamp. He bid on lots of other stuff but I think he was happy with his treasures.
Always one for literature...I brought everything home to go thru it again. Tyler's bidding number, a brochure from the Bed and Breakfast and the receipt for our two big purchases.
We bid on some things but the prices were just a little too rich for our blood. We did end up with three box lids of old canning lids (who knows why we got these...I am hoping that I can make some wind chimes out of the) and about ten licence plates from Ohio and Indiana. Two of the oldest ones are already mounted on the side of the barn. Mark has us lined up for another auction next weekend...he loves having his weekends off for now). The next one has three barns going at the same time.But before I finish this blog I have to tell you to check out the link above for the auction. The butter churns pictured, the four purplish ones in the picture...just those four...) went for ...are you sitting down...$6,500! No kidding! I about dropped my teeth. And the Stanley #1 plainer went for $1,100. I kid you not! And I am looking for old license plates, old silverware, old ladders and windows...that is probably a good thing.
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