The RSL Auction Company is very pleased to announce its adoption of a new auction format that shall henceforward be known as the “Crème de la Crème Auction”. This phrase originated in France perhaps three centuries ago. Its earliest use stems from culinary references related to cheese produced with the finest creams. In modern parlance, the phrase has simply come to mean the ‘very best’, whether in reference to people or things. As the phrase implies, these auctions will be extremely small with only the very best quality offerings on the market.
Our first crème de la crème sale will take place this summer on Saturday, August 21st at our auction facility in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. The sale will showcase 300 stellar pieces that will include architectural still banks, dynamic themed spelter still banks, figural still banks, tin and cast iron mechanical banks, bell toys, cast iron animal drawn toys, European tinplate planes, trains, automobiles and novelty toys, rare examples of American tin and mechanical toys and several prized pieces of folk art. In the future, we will plan to create one crème de la crème sale every summer.
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LOTE 208:
Wilkins Oversized Fire Pumper Iron Toy
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Vendido por: $7 500
Precio inicial:
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4 250
Precio estimado :
$8 500 - $10 500
Comisión de la casa de subasta: 27.5%
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Wilkins Oversized Fire Pumper Iron Toy
By the Wilkins Toy Company. Keene, NH - 1895 - 20" Long. This is one of the truest grand-daddies of firefighting toys that was ever created for play. Three massive muscular horses are seen racing through the streets to the scene of the fire. This impressive vehicle is equipped with a steam pumper, a single hose and a pair of fire buckets. In this light, it should be regarded as a sort of hybrid "combination" piece of fire apparatus. Wilkins also produced an oversized fireman's water tower as a mate for their pumper toy. At a whopping 44", that water tower is the largest cast iron horse drawn toy ever made. However, their oversized fire pumper is fifty times more rare than the water tower toy.
