Absentee bids let you place your maximum bid on an item before the live auction begins. During the live show, we’ll continue bidding on your behalf up to your max bid — just like leaving a bid with a traditional auctioneer.
When you place an absentee bid, you’ll choose a bid strategy. Your chosen strategy determines how the current bid will be set at the time your bid is placed. Your maximum bid always remains confidential.
The available strategies are:
🐢 Slow & Steady — starts your bid low and lets others chase you.
⚡💥 Power Bid — starts at about half your max to show intent without revealing your top number.
♥️♠️ All In ♦️♣️ — sets the current bid to your full bid amount right away.
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Lot 068 - Grouping Of Seven Mixed Vintage Smalls Including Miniature Shoe, Coin Purse, Mini Cast Iron Sad Iron, Jumbo Fitchburg, Mass Souvenir Pencil, Key Holder, And Advertising Spoon
Lot 068 - Grouping Of Seven Mixed Vintage Smalls Including Miniature Shoe, Coin Purse, Mini Cast Iron Sad Iron, Jumbo Fitchburg, Mass Souvenir Pencil, Key Holder, And Advertising Spoon
Grouping of seven mixed vintage smalls offered together as an assorted lot of decorative, souvenir, and novelty items. Included are a miniature bronzed pot metal high-heel ladies shoe; a turned wooden miniature bucket with wire handle; a Mohawk Trail genuine leather coin purse with Native American canoeing graphic; a miniature cast iron sad iron; a jumbo novelty wooden green pencil marked "Souvenir of Fitchburg, Massachusetts"; a leather belt loop key holder fitted with a pressed nickel fastener featuring a Native American profile; and a miniature brass "Lowney" chocolate cocoa advertising spoon.
Wear is present throughout consistent with age, use, and handling, including surface wear, patina, and general handling wear. All items are offered as found. The grouping provides a varied selection of vintage souvenirs and metal and wooden smalls suitable for display or further sorting.