General News
5 December, 2022
Eddy in 78 groove
BIDDING was strong and hectic for collectables at Saturday’s Old Bridge Hotel clearing sale in Kingower. The sale attracted interest with potential buyers from across the region and close to home. Rheola’s Eddy Ruyter said he picked up some...
BIDDING was strong and hectic for collectables at Saturday’s Old Bridge Hotel clearing sale in Kingower.
The sale attracted interest with potential buyers from across the region and close to home.
Rheola’s Eddy Ruyter said he picked up some bargains - two vintage meat mincers and boxes of 78 records.
“I’ve been going to sales since I was a kid,” said the retired boilermaker. “The best thing is there is always something cheap and different.”
He paid just $2 for the pair of mincers and a dollar more for three boxes of old records from the 1930s and 1940s, complete with a gramophone horn.
“The horn alone is worth more than what I paid for the lot.”
Eddy said he currently had 30 old cars in various stages of restoration - only two are registered although his daughter has put in a request for two vehicles - but didn’t head home with any of the car panels and parts in Saturday’s sale where auctioneer Chris Nevins took a crowd of more than 150 people through the rows of collectables, knick-knacks, tools and furniture.
Popular with bidders was a vintage London-made soda syphon emblazoned with the Cohn Brothers’ logo.
James Nevins, of FP Nevins and Co Inglewood, said the
syphon sold for $350. Old cast iron implements, rabbit traps and axe heads were equally popular with bidders.
Lots in the auction had been amassed by the Gilmore family that had lived in the historic hotel for a century.
The 1910 hotel, the third building on the site, closed in 1920 and became the town’s post office, telephone exchange and store.
FP Nevins and Co has the red brick building listed for sale at $500,000.