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Farm machinery, UTV's, Equipment, Building supplies, Tools, Zero-Turn Mower, and more including John Deere 4430D tractor w/cab, SN-4430H 059081R, 9557 hours; Caterpillar 259D (Two Speed) Track loader w/bucket - 1469 hours, SN-CAT0259DLFTL01377; J.D. 3720 Compact tractor (44 HP - MFWD) w/758 hours, SN- LV3720H381206; J.D. MX6 rotary mower; Maschio 3 pt. rototiller, excellent; Befco 3 pt. cyclone RD7 PTO finishing mower; 2 Polaris UTV's including a 2017 XP Crew Ranger 1000 w/264 hours and a 2013 Polaris Ranger XL900; Exmark Laser Z "xs" Zero Turn mower w/490 hours; 2007 Chevrolet 2 door 2WD pickup; Set of 20" wheels, tires, etc.; Pedal car; Clipper fanning mill; Jacuzzi tub; Lincoln AC/DC arc welder; Band saw; A-101 Pulse Vac dust collection system; New in Box Weber Genesis BBQ grill; Wall insulating foam sheets; Steel doors; 2 air compressor; 5000 watt generator; Large group of steel scaffolding; Tsunami Large Trash Pump; Good groups of new ceramic tile, various patterns, quantities, colors and sizes; Patz barn feed mixer; Dust system; J.D. running gear with Killbros gravity box w/extensions; Some furniture, Some tools, small items.  Watch for updates and additional pictures.  Be on time at 4:00 P.M. - Equipment will sell starting at 4:30 P.M.

                                                    Stanton’s Auctioneers May Firearm Auction

NEW LOCATION, to be held in the Barry Expo Center, on the Barry County Fairgrounds, at 1350 N. M-37 Highway, Hastings, Michigan – 4-1/2 miles northwest of Hastings on M-37 or 20 miles southeast of Grand Rapids on:

Friday Morning, May 14^th, 2021- 8:00 A.M. 

CATALOGS ARE POSTED UNDER VIEW MORE & DOCUMENTS 

The first sale in our new location includes the fantastic collection of 70 early flintlock and percussion handguns.  The collection assembled by Mr. Franke over the course of 40-50 years is a wonderful representation of rare and quality examples.  We have already posted over 800 pictures on our website detailing this private collection.

There is also approximately 270 guns to be sold in addition to the collection mentioned above.  High Standard 50^th Ann. Gold Emblem Crusader, Rugers, 1911 Colt, Custom Bushmaster AR-15, Remington, LC Smith, Winchesters including Commemorative 94AEXTR, 1894 (38-55 cal.), 1892, Mausers, Colt 1863, cap lock, and Military. 

Also, a large number of smalls, ammunition and various items to be sold.

Stanton’s Auctioneers & Realtors

144 S. Main, Box 146, Vermontville, MI 49096 - 517-726-0181 office, 

Email – stantonsauctions@sbcglobal.net – Website – www.stantons-auctions.com

Steven E. Stanton 517-331-8150 – Email – stevenEstanton@gmail.com

Michael C. Bleisch, 517-231-0868 – Email – mcbleisch@gmail.com

A large and excellent auction including John & Sharon Stanford's collection of antique toys, banks, black memorabilia, ephemera, an excellent group of Jackson, Michigan and Jackson County historical items of all types, Disney antique and collectibles, antique dolls, and more, as well as the excellent railroad collection coming from western Michigan with over 40 switch lanterns, signage, calendars, and all types of interesting railroad collectibles, also the Glassman Estate large collection of antique bisque, china, composition and general dolls.  Please note, we may be selling in two rings for part of the day.  The offering is very diverse and excellent having been gathered by the collectors for decades.  

104 more pictures added on 4/21 of part of the Esther Glassman Estate Doll Collection.

Over 300 pictures now posted.

Selling this one story home with a full basement, 3 bedrooms, fireplace, main floor laundry, 2-1/2 baths, and two-car attached garage.  The home sits on a one story partial wooded lot, and has a 24x32 pole barn.  There is a 5" well, is heated by a LP hot water heating system, partial brick facade, etc.  A good country property.

Open Houses - Sunday May 9 and 16th from 1:00 - 2:30 P.M. each day.

Also selling all of the personal property, collectibles, sporting items, and outdoor equipment.  See our other listing on the sale of personal property starting at 9:30 A.M. on Sat. May 22nd.  

Complete auction flyer now posted under documents.

Selling all of the personal property, home furnishings with living, bedroom, curio cabinets, and misc. furniture, lawn & garden including JD riding mowers, , tools, and a large amount of collectibles, coins and sporting collections.  The sporting collectibles run the gamut from signed athletes photographs, 1000's of sporting cards, collection of commemorative coins and coin sets, clothing, bobble heads, toys, and more.  See 150 pictures.  The real estate is also to be sold...see the other listing in our auction calendar for additional information.

See full sale flyer with terms and conditions on the real estate under documents.  

Stanton's are presently scheduling onsite and offsite auctions for the the winter and spring months of 2021.  If you are considering having an auction of farm machinery, real estate, antiques, guns, coins, antique music machines, antique automobiles, gas engine or any type of real or personal property call us to benefit from our live and online auction marketing platforms.  The  promotion of our auction include newspapers, direct mail, email blasts, Constant Contact, websites, etc.  These efforts and our experience of having sold nearly 9,000 auctions since our founding in 1954 constantly benefit the clients that we work for.  Call for an appointment to meet and discuss your auction.

Selling this excellent one story home built in 2002.  With nearly 2000 square feet of living space, the home contains 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, laundry, pantry, excellent kitchen with island, dining area, living room with gas log fireplace, sun room, foyer, and full basement.  Situated on a very nice landscaped lot with in-ground sprinkling system, the property has laminate deck with automatic awning, and more.  The home has a brick facade and a large front porch.  The condition of the property is in like new condition and meticulous.  There is also a 3-car garage, and cement driveway.  The location, subdivision, and neighborhood is excellent on on the north side of Charlotte.  This is a great opportunity.

Sherman Kelley Estate, Marcie Kelley, Owner.

Open Houses  will be held Sunday, May 23rd and Sunday, May 30th from 1:00-2:30 P.M. each day, or by appointment.

Watch for information regarding the sale of the personal property...

A good group of home furnishings, lawn and garden equipment (John Deere Zero-turn mower), nice bedroom, living and dining room furnishings, and more.  We will be taking the list in the next few days, along with pictures of exactly what will be sold after Mrs. Kelley decides what items she needs in her next home.  Watch for the updates.

Also, see our other listing regarding this excellent picture of real estate that will be sold at 6:00 P.M. on Thursday, June 3rd.  

Inspection is on Sunday May 23rd and Sunday May 30th from 1:00 - 2:30 P.M. each day

A large sale with a good diversity of items ranging from Sporting pieces, guns, pickup truck, motorbikes, boats, canoe and motors, antiques and collectibles, tools including power and hand tools, farm items, equipment, over 3000 ft. of 5 strand hi-tensile fence, home furnishings, qu. of lumber, guns, and more.  See documents for large listing.  Be on time and come early with a friend, we will be selling in two rings.

Home furnishings, antiques, shop items, collectibles, and more.  Generac generator, V-bottom fishing boat with trailer, Tandem axle car hauler trailer, snowmobile trailer, A-frame and hoist, rototiller, freezer & refrigerator, shop items, tool chests, tools, appliances.  See pictures.

Farm machinery including a Stieger Bearcat 4WD articulated tractor w/duals; 2 Ford 9600 tractors, Ford 6600 tractor with loader, M.F. 65 diesel tractor, N.H. TR85 SP combine with grain & 4 row corn heads, A full line of farm tillage equipment including plows, cultipackers w/pups, cultimulchger, chisel plow, Int. vibration shank cultivator, stone rake, stone picker, Int. 5100 drill, N.I. pto manure spreader, Int. 8 row cyclo planter (needs work), Int. 271 wing disk, 6 wagons with gravity boxes & one with flat rack, 2 forage wagons and more. Also,  2019 Bad Boy ZT Elite 747cc zero-turn mower; Cub Cadet Commercial Zero-turn mower, trailers, other lawn mowers (various conditions), some antiques, primitives, lots of shop tools, Vulcan anvil, welders, hand tools, furniture, woodworking equipment, lots of golf clubs, ATV (various conditions), snowmobiles, cars for parts, scrap iron, and accumulated and used since the Graham family moved to this farm in 1942.  See pictures and watch for updates.

Call Dennis Graham at 989-288-2772 for additional information on the equipment and an appointment to view the machinery.  

A very large sale liquidating a diverse collection of antiques, collectibles, Classic Car, Cushman & Motorette Scooters & Firetruck, dolls, tools, International Cub tractor and lots more.  We have just posted over 550 pieces of this extensive collection.  We will be selling in two rings throughout the day, bring a friend and plan on attending. 

A brief list of the items to be sold include: 1967 Chrysler Newport 2 door convertible in very good condition with a 383cc 4-barrel engine; 1979 Cushman "fire truck"; Two restored Scooters including Cushman and Motorette, International Farmall Cub with belly mount mower; Bicycles, hundreds of antique, collectible toys including pedal cars, semi/tractors, dolls including Barbies, a large group of Erector sets of all types and ages including assembled sets, display cases, train sets with Lionel, American Flyer, Gilbert Erector Train sets, hand and power tools, thousands of items to be sold.

After 50+ years of running a successful business helping schools raise funds while having fun, and partnering with corporations on their summer company picnics, FunServices of Grand Rapids, MI is now being operated by Fun Services of Bellevue, MI.(near Battle Creek).

Of course, after 50+ years there is an assortment of equipment and merchandise that is already in the Bellevue inventory/portfolio, so we are auctioning this mix of FunServices-Grand Rapids equipment and merchandise, plus many vintage items.

Continue to watch this site as we list the property to be sold including box trucks, trailers, car dolly, rides, 7 bounce houses and other inflatables, warehouse shelving, generators, office equipment, new stock prizes, freezer, carnival games, red and white booths, Honda Gold Wing motorcycle, climbing wall, vintage cast iron Merry-go-round horses, vintage carnival knockdown punk figures, games, and lots more.  

Some of the games/attractions include 2 portable dunk tanks, Electronic double shot basketball, Sno Kone & Cotton Candy machines and booths, Bungee Run; 1972 King kiddie chair swing; 1954 National Amusement Device kiddie Ferris wheel; Beep ball crawl; Kiddie Land that includes 4 coin-operated rides on a trailer, Mini Golf; Money machine; Pit stop challenge, Power Jump; 2001 Extreme Engineering Rock Climbing Wall on a trailer, 2 Giant inflatable slides, Adrenaline Rush obstacle course, Trackless train manufactured by Royal Train Rides (Holds up to 18 passengers includes storage covers with a transport trailer). Don’t miss the 1973 vintage covered bounce house by Spacewalk and TWO 20‘ vintage high strikers, circa 1950s or ’60s- Both with original bell and paint. Also 6 vintage mallets- 2 of which are NOS.

The vehicles include a 2011 Chevrolet box truck with a Duramax Diesel engine, 1996Ford 14 ft. box truck, 1992 Ford E350 box truck with a 14 ft. box, along with a 2016 Pace tandem axle 14 ft. trailer (7 ft. high) with rear ramp door, motorcycle trailer, car dolly, etc.

5-5 ADDED 50+ PICTURES

5-8 ADDED 29 PICTURES

Inspection Dates and Times

4160 44th Street SE, "Fun Services", Grand Rapids, MI 49512

Thursday, June 17th - 9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. 

Saturday, June 19th - 9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

This is the 4th sale from this huge estate and we have barely made a dent in the quantity being sold.  We are still working on the antiques and collectibles in the basement and now the second floor and attic.  The quantity is huge, with items ranging from furniture, to collectibles, primitives, glassware, china, lamps, old, new, and in between and 100's of unpacked boxes.  We will not know what there is to sell until it is moved out of the schoolhouse and unpacked.  Plan on attending, we will be selling in two rings throughout the day.

Stanton's are scheduling Auctions of farm machinery, antiques, automobiles and personal property auctions.  Our recent auctions have continued to show the demand for all types of property being sold.  Some of the recent items sold, and prices received are noted below.

John Deere 4020 Turbo tractor with sunroof $17,000; John Deere 4020 tractor with sunroof; John Deere 4450 tractor with cab $28,000; A line of hay equipment included a Kuhn 6002 double rake $14,000, Kuhn 4120 rake $7,000 and a Kuhn GF502 rake sold for $6,000; 2 J.D. ParBar rakes $2,050; 3 Bale wagons for $3,200 = $9,600; J.D. 328 square baler with kicker $11,500; John Deere 467 round baler sold for $20,000; and 2 J.D. Moco 925 & 926 haybines sold for $10,000 & $9,500 each;

Recently Stanton's offered a 1935 Auburn Boattail 951 Speedster (replica) that sold for $44,000; Also a 1907 Buick Model F Touring Car for $28,600; and a 1952 Vespa sold by Sears for $2,650;

Antiques saw pieces sold at our sales to onsite buyers from all over the country, as well as those who registered from 17 countries.  A Wooten Extra Grade desk sold for $23,100; A rare Multiphone lyre cased phonograph (an early jukebox) brought $44,000; Seeburg G nickelodeon brought $22,000; A Link Endless roll nickelodeon for $14,750; and nearly 1300 lots of phonographs, radios, and a toy collection that made our April 15, 16, and 17th auction generate $1,003,350 in total sales.

We are fortunate to have many excellent sales of machinery, guns, antiques, home furnishings, and estate sales scheduled and listed in our calendar.  If you are considering selling an entire collection, estate, or any types of real estate or personal property we would like to meet with you to discuss your upcoming sale without obligation.

Stanton’s Auctioneers & Realtors

144 S. Main, P.O. Box 146, Vermontville, MI 49096

(517) 726-0181 office, Email – Stantons-auctions.com

Website – www.stantons-auctions.com

Steven E. Stanton 517-331-8150   -    Michael C. Bleisch 517-231-0868

Email – stevenEstanton@gmail.com – Email – mcbleisch@gmail.com

Now accepting collections of antique, collectible, and modern long and hand guns of all types, along with quality smalls of all types.  Ammunition, reloading supplies, gun safes, knives, etc.

Whether you have a collection or individual examples contact us to include them in our Summer Firearm Auction.

Pickup is available for collections around Michigan or out-of-state

Contact - Steven E. Stanton - 517-331-8150, Email - stevenEstanton@gmail.com or Michael C. Bleisch, (517) 231-0868

Stanton's Auctioneers & Realtors, (517) 726-0181

A large sale from the Tony Rakowski Estate including antique and collectible stained and leaded glass lamps, art glass, Victorian glass, China, furniture, curio and china cabinets, hand painted china, a nice group of Contemporary artist signed and marked art glass including examples by Orient and Flume, Zellique, and others, transfer ware, Asian Antiques with furniture and various wares including china, Geisha Girl, etc., Fenton, pattern glass, clocks, Fenton GWTW lamps, peach blow, MOP satin glass, 3 large carved figures including a "Cigar Store Type Indian", reverse painted lamp, Interesting lamps of all types, Victorian drop front secretary with top bookcase, Galle' and cameo glass replica pieces, A wonderful beveled and leaded glass window, hanging fixtures, blue marked crockery, cut back and overlaid glass, hats, tramp art frame, flatware, a lot to be sold.

Please note that the pictures are a representation of what we have to sell, all of the items may not make it into the sale due to the quantity.  Please bear with us a we continue to liquidate this interesting and huge collection.

10% buyers premium.

This collection is phenomenal and the content is staggering.  Hundreds of machines, rarity after rarity, and multiples of desirable and sought after examples about.  Antique phonographs, music boxes, juke boxes, musical clocks, 4 automatic changers, Hexaphone's, 7 Capital Cuff Boxes, many coin operated boxes, bell boxes (disc and cylinders, orchestral boxes, roller organs, Rare Edison Class M phonographs, and so much more.  As found examples acquired and accumulated by Mr. and Mrs. Ellis over the course of five decades make this an offering that any collector, museum and investor will not want to miss.   

Regretfully, Mr. Ellis passed away on February 27^th at the age of 87.  This collection is a tribute to his efforts to acquire and accumulate wonderful and desirable machines in this field, along with his wife Harriet during their 68 year marriage. 

Plan on attending terrific event.  Call for your copy of this complete catalog with over 1,000 pictures.  Keep watching for updates, but positively plan on attending in person to take advantage of this fantastic offering.

We have posted a few of pictures.  Watch for updates.