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Leslie Holstner Jr. Estate

Bruce Eveslage

Selling online the private collection of the Estate of Les Holstner, a longtime well-known antique dealer and collector of early American Country furniture and antiques. Items include a one-owner 2016 Ford Transit Connect XL cargo van and a collection of period furniture, early pewterware, 1836 sampler, country antiques, stoneware, blown glass and art – all in original as-found condition.

FORD TRANSIT CONNECT XL CARGO VAN

VIN: NMOLS7E73G1232163
MODEL YEAR: 2016
MAKE: Ford
MODEL: Transit Connect XL
BODY STYLE: Cargo Van
ENGINE: 2.5L – 4 Cylinder – Gasoline
ENGINE CONDITION: Running
TRANSMISSION: Automatic
DRIVETRAIN: Front Wheel Drive
EXTERIOR COLOR: White
INTERIOR COLOR: Black
MILEAGE: 41,304 Actual Miles
TITLE: Clear
LOCATION: New Albany, IN
FEATURES: One-Owner, Air Conditioning, Power Locks & Windows, 2 Sliding Side Doors with Windows, 2 Rear Doors with Windows.

PERIOD FURNITURE

American Country One-Door Dry Sink in Old Yellow Paint, Period Tapered Leg Two-Board Top Kitchen Table, American Country Primitive Blue One-Door Cupboard, Period New England Drop Front Secretary Desk, Four Shaker Style Ladder Back Woven Bottom Chairs, Four Period Stenciled & Decorated Plank Bottom Dining Chairs, Period Cherry Swivel Game Table w Rope Turned Legs, Period Painted & Decorated Wash Bowl Stand, Period Open Scalloped Wooden Shelf, Period One-Board Scrub Top Work Table, Painted Milk Stool & Two Ladder Back Chairs, Five Period Ladder Back Rush Bottom Side Chairs in Black Paint, Antique Pine Rectangular Tall Stool, Period Green Painted Blind Door Cupboard, Period Ladder Back Arm Chair w Rush Seat, Period Poplar Flat Wall Cupboard – St. Ambrose Elementary School – Seymour, Indiana, Period Blue Painted Dovetail Immigrant Trunk, American Country Small Blue-Gray Painted Cupboard, Windsor Hoop Back Armchair in Black Paint, Period Red Painted Chair Combination Table, Period Tapered Leg One-Drawer Stand Table, Period Sawbuck Table in Mustard Paint, Period Double Rope Bed in Red Painted Worn Patina, Two Wingback Upholstered Chairs, Period Chippendale Side Chair, Period Three-Legg Cherry Candle Stand, Hepplewhite One-Drawer Cherry Stand Table, American Country Scalloped Bench in Mustard Paint, Pair of Wingback Blue Plaid Upholstered Chairs & Chippendale Style Upholstered Sofa.

TEXTILES

Martha Southwick 1836 Crossstitch Virtue Alphabet Sampler – “Be Virtuous if You Would Be Happy”.

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

American Country Blue Painted Swing Handle Firkin, Log Cabin Blend Coffee Stenciled Red Painted Wood Store Box from Ohio, HW Hayden & #4 Antique Brass Buckets, Authentic Wooden Cobbler’s Bench, Small Black Painted Pine Box with Lid, Period Dovetailed Red Painted Storage Box, Vintage Christmas Ornaments, HW Hayden Ansonia Brass Co. Brass Bucket, American Country Green Painted Shaker Style Wood Oval Tub, Fleetwood Mac and Eagles LP Records, Period Tiger Maple Document Box, Antique Slide Top Dovetailed Storage Box, Wood Grain Painted Decorated Tray, Two Antique Blue Feather Edge Serving Bowls, Four Antique Cast Iron Porringers with Pierced Handles, Vintage Wooden Toy Fishing Sailboat, Three American Country Dovetailed Painted Hanging Wall Boxes, Woven & Stenciled Native American Basket, Staffordshire Spaniel Dog Figurines, Period Small Scalloped Footstool, Shaker Wooden Lemon Squeezer, Period Kitchenwares, Circa 1983 Folk Art Painted Wood Cow, Four Flow Blue Dinner Plates, Wedgwood Ironstone Pitcher & Bowl Set, Collection of Ironstone & Tea Leaf China, Margarete Steiff 101st Anniversary Teddy Bear Set Limited Edition – Original Box, Small Blacksmith’s Anvil, Roy Jackson Borden Indiana Split Hickory Egg Basket – Dated 1979, Oval 10″ Copper Bucket with Handle, Roy Jackson Borden Indiana Split Hickory Egg Basket – Dated 1980, Gray Painted Lift Top Box & Hardware, Small Table Top Showcase, Old Yellow Painted Three Step Back Shelf, Period Hanging Decorated Clock Works, German Celestial Echoes Harmonica with Original Case, Three Small Hanging Wall Shelves, Period One-Door Hanging Cupboard, Cast Iron #8 Chicken Fryer, Griswold #8 Cast Iron Skillet, Small Cast Iron Skillet with Granite Lid, Brass Heart Trivet, Gaudy Welsh, Gaudy Dutch & Rose Medallion China, Collection LP Records, Stamp Collection, Steiff 100th Anniversary Teddy Bear 0153/43 – Original Box, Two Paper Label Red Gold Tomato Cans, Primitive Wood Bread Board, Antique Wood Single Tree, Large Tin Storage Box with Lid, Miniature Dolls, Animals & Toy Sailboat, Finger Lap Red Painted Wood Bucket, Circa 1840s-1870s Eastern Virginia Church Collection Alms Box, Walnut Knife Tray, Breakstone Cheese Box & Bed Rail Clamps, American Country Gray Painted Hanging Wall Shelf, Early Folk Art Doll, Nut Set, Wood S&P, Stein’s Shoe Horn, Coke Bottle & More, Cast Metal Cross & Brass Crucifix, Wood Boards & Table Leaves.

ART & DECOR

1800’s Winter Scene Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting In Gilt Frame, Geometric Pattern Oriental Floor Rug, Folk Art Hooked Rooster Rug, Antique Circular Pattern 20″ x 40″ Hooked Rug, Theorem Fruit Bowl Painting on Velvet in Period Frame, Painted Picture Frames & Mirror, Spatterware Sugar Bowl, Mercury Glass, Compote, Victorian Vase & Chinese Provincial Bowl, Gold Gilded 37″x 28″ Wall Mirror, Porcelain Blacksmith Figurine, Don Noyes Whimsical Hand Carved Birds, Tulip Tree Painting in Scalloped Edge Red Painted Frame, Hand Painted Wood “Antiques” Sign, Painted Wood Tray, Gold Mirror & Picture Frame, Sun Patterned Floor Cloth Area Rug, Country American Checker Pattern Floor Cloth Area Rug & Floor Cloth Doorway Mat.

STONEWARE

Lorenzo Johnson (Newstead, NY) c1850’s Redware Preserve Jar, Four Salt Glazed Stoneware Crocks, Ovoid 3-Gallon Hand Thrown Salt Glazed Signed Stoneware Jar, 3-Gallon Stoneware Crock & Stone Planter, Salt Glazed Stoneware Jar with Removable Lamp, Three Salt Glazed Stoneware Jars, Redware & Spongeware Stoneware Jars, Rockingham Stoneware Bowls & Coffee Mug.

PEWTERWARE

T. Danforth Philadelphia Early American Pewter Bowl, R Dunham Pewter Coffee Pot & Crown Hallmark Teapot, Early Pewter Bowls, Plates, Cups & Porringers, Early Pewter 13″ Charger Plate & Sellew Cincinnati Ohio Pewter Coffee Pot.

BLOWN GLASS

Period 1800’s Blown Olive Green Onion Bottle with Pontil, Pittsburg Blown Glass Cake Stand – 9″, Pittsburg Blown Glass Cake Stand – 10″, Glass Pedestal Cake Stand – 9″, Small Green Blown Glass Bottle, Pittsburgh Glass Compote & Spooner & Sterling Glass Bud Vase & Early Hand Blown Pontil Green Glass Bottle.

PERIOD CANDLES, LAMPS & LANTERNS

Three Period Candle Lanterns, Six-Sided Wood Candle Lantern, Four Oil Lamps with Brass and Marble Bases, Rush-Light Hand Forged Iron Candle Stick, Wrought Iron Four-Arm Hanging Candle Light Fixture, Wrought Iron Adjustable Floor Candle Stand, Brass, Pewter, Wood & Tin Candlesticks, Early Tin & Pewter Candlesticks & Wall Sconce, Brass Push Up Candlestick by Turner & Co. Engraved Olmsted 1729.

BOOKS

Large Collection of Antique Reference Books including Shaker Chair Book by Charles R. Muller & Timothy D. Rieman, Who was Who in American Art, two (2) Davenport art books – 1993/1994 Edition, Iron at Winterthur, Blue China books, Warmans Price Guide, Staffordshire China, History of American Pewter, White Ironstone, American Copper & Brass, Fine Points of Furniture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Glass, Early Lighting, Toys, Equestrian Artist, Wedgewood, Navajo Textiles, Garden Books including Clematis, Rhododendron, How to Propagate & Perennials, Windsor Chairs, Upper Canadian Furniture, Old books including guest register, records books, children’s Favorite Story Book, Poems, Folk Stories & Fables.

OUTDOOR & GARDEN

Large Hand-Cut Grindstone, Kobalt 6 Cu. Ft. Like-New Wheelbarrow, Binoculars 6×30 w/ Leather Case, Wheeling #3 Galvanized Wash Tub, Hand Cut Limestone Chicken Watering Rock, Cast Iron Pedestal Bird Bath, Painted Wood Planter Stand, Pecar Berlin Germany Spotting Scope 25 x 56 & Tripod & Painted Pine Handmade Wood Bench.

TOOLS & EQUIPMENT

Belknap Bluegrass Hammer & Wire Pliers, Collection of Files, Punches & Wet Stones, Tool Box Filled with Assorted Wrenches, Sockets & Vise Grip, Furniture Bar & C -Clamps, Primitive Wooden Work Stool, Master Lock Vehicle Steering Wheel Lock, 22 Ft. Aluminum All American Extension Ladder, Craftsman Gas 18″ Chain Saw & Hard Case, Gray Painted Plywood Storage Box, Warren Axe & Plumb Hammer Hatchet, Old Wooden 16′ Extension Ladder, Corona Limb Loppers & True Temper Long Handle Shovel, Convertible Craftsman Hand Truck Dolly, Collection of Yard & Hand Tools, Black & Decker Electric Blower & 40V Trimmer, Black & Decker and Craftsman Electric Power Tools, Columbian Hardware 144M Bench Vise, Contents of Workbench, Craftsman 8″ Table Saw, Pipe Wrenches, Hammer, Mallets, Hatchet and Splitting Wedges., Collection of Hardware & Cheese Boxes, Compton Scissors, Corbin Lock, Tools & Pocket Knives & Solid Copper Grounding Rod.

HOUSEHOLD

Sanyo 32″ Flat Screen TV, Box of Brown Paper Shopping Bags with Handles, Vintage Glass Bakeware, Black Wood Shutters & Display Boards, Two Painted Wood Bookshelves, Rubber Boots, Step Ladder, Cooler & More, Painted Plywood & Pegboard, Mikasa French Countryside Dinnerware, Gold Plated & Sterling Silver Cross Necklaces, Panasonic Stereo & Speakers, Kitchen & Cookware, Pine Louvered Storage Cabinet & Ten Plastic Storage Totes.

I-265 to Grant Line Road Exit. South to right on Mount Tabor Road to left on Green Valley Road. Property on left.