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WWII Era RCA Victor & Columbia Records Salesman & Promoter To Sell Entire Collection

January 23rd thru 25th, 2009

1934 Maryal Drive Sacramento CA 95864

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Lovingly written by the late owners' daughter:

My father was born in 1908 in Salt Lake City, Utah where the family homesteaded. His family moved to Lancaster, CA where he spent most of his growing-up years. He was always interested in music and the arts and received a bachelor’s degree in music. He played in professional quartets on San Francisco radio stations during 1930’s. He also played the violin in several symphony orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony.

He began working as a salesman for RCA Victor before WWII. He had the Northern California territory where he established friendships with many recording artists and Hollywood notables. Thousands of those records will be on sale during the four-day estate sale Jennie and Mike are giving at our family home.

During WWII, my father served in the South Pacific with the Marine Corps. His Marine Corp uniform and accessories are part of the sale. After the war, he was hired by Columbia Records. Based out of the Bay Area he continued his career with recording and record promotions. He often obtained sample or proof records from artists that he saved. He was always interested in art and collectibles and would purchase them as a hobby.

He spent many hours combing museums and galleries throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for interesting collectibles. Over the years he built an extensive library of books on art and music to aid him in his research. He often corresponded with museums and experts from around the world. Eventually he tired of sales and bought a metal plating company in what is now known as West Sacramento. Some of the silver remaining in the house was from his clients. He was an entrepreneur and had several other businesses before he retired in the mid 1970s.

My mother was born in 1921 on a ranch in Encampment, Wyoming where her pioneer family founded the township. Many of the objects in the home are from the family ranch in Wyoming. Her family was the first Caucasian settlers in the Encampment valley. Stories are told of mom’s grandmother staying on the ranch and guarding the property from marauding Indians that came through while her grandfather was in Cheyenne working as a state legislator.

Many of the artifacts, books, linen, and china that will be included in the sale came from the ranch estate. The ranch had established a lending library for the area and many of the books in the home are stamped with the ranch library’s name. Her father served in WWI in France as a veterinarian for the cavalry’s horses. His uniform is part of the estate sale as well.

Mom’s mother and father eventually moved to California where her mother had given up a promising career in music to move to Wyoming. My mother went to work during WWII at the Presidio in San Francisco where she met my dad. She always had a love for books. She went to work later in life for the Sacramento County Library System from which she retired in the 1980s.

This weekend, we have been blessed with the job of emptying this family’s home located at 1934 Maryal Drive Sacramento CA 95864. The sale will be held the 23rd thru 25th, Friday Saturday and Sunday from 7-6 daily. Both Saturday and Sunday will be half price and all leftovers at four pm on Sunday shall go for free. We are so very excited for those of you lucky enough to be a part of this purging of these historical items from across the United States and the world.

To help plan your shopping route wisely, let us walk you through the home going clock wise from when you first enter the doorway, hopefully early on during the sale. We expect a healthy turnout for this sale, so it is best you come early and plan to wait in line with snacks, refreshments, and great company from fellow collectors you’ve no doubt known for years.

Upon entering the front door, to your immediate left and left again is the front bedroom. This room contains most of the hats, purses, a couple of dressers, a rocker, some contemporary and a few vintage clothes as well. There is a small bathroom connected to the bedroom with small toiletries and not much more.
Splitting to the right instead of going left brings you past another small bathroom, and then to the middle bedroom which houses military uniforms and such, another dresser, toys, games, kid’s sewing machine, cards, and most of the vintage clothing offered as well as some fun vinyl kid’s things. Most of the sewing, buttons, baskets and the early peddle machine stay here too. This room is not large so not many will be able to fit inside at one time.

If you head straight down the hallway to the back of the home, you will end in the record collector’s haven offering thousands of collectible records: prevue, promo, original artists, and wonderful cover art from 45’s and 78s to 33s and LPs. The recording era for these records seems to run from the late 1920's until the early 1960's and the taste of music ranges from jazz and blues to country western and polka. Vinyl is the basis for this room, but you will also find several rare and beautiful accordions, more sewing, dozens of player piano rolls in their boxes, art, camera equipment and some furniture as well as all the original RCA record shelves made just for display as well as some magazines.

Starting again from the front door, if you choose to go straightforward you will enter the main living area and showcase for English, Mason, and transferware, European antiques and crystal, chintz, bone china and fine art. The display cases with thousands of small offerings will be crowded into this room so one will need to wait their turn to view and purchase the tiny family heirlooms held in these cases from jewelry to pens, cufflinks to Bakelite. The back couch will most likely hold the linens, perfumes live here, razor and strop collection, as well as plenty of original art hung on each wall.

This family is letting loose of such fabulous offerings that we will look for joy on all of your faces as you make eye contact with early pottery, stoneware, primitives, etched glass, quadraplate, exciting tools and gadgets, political buttons and measuring devices laid upon the various crowded tables throughout this room. I dare each of you to go without finding some treasure before you in this main living area of the family home.

Past the main living area, going either thru the small narrow kitchen or straight through the living room into the next medium sized library/den, will offer you bronzes of western design, hundreds if not thousands of books and magazines, more art, 50’s chrome and stainless art décor kitchenware, American Indian baskets, textiles, artwork, and collectibles, a huge potmetal Victorian urn (as is) with embossed juvenile fables as design and standing nearly a foot tall, more cups and saucers, figurines, mortar and pestles, sheet music collection in an early sheet music cabinet with fancy inlay, old and rare good condition English brass telescope on stand (manly and hardy in nature), nearby stand, two interesting early labratory microscopes, a complete set of Edgar Allen Poe early edition books, tramp art boxes as well as Flemish pieces, secretary, desk, and a matching half round table.

Passing through this room will take you all the way back to the vintage everything sunroom boasting all from 50’s modern design to 40’s kitchenware, fun early office supplies, Matson Line original Hawaiian menus, vintage silk Asian clothes, matchbook collection, jadeite, painted pitchers, old fans, globes, radios, early kitchen appliances in original boxes with advertising, vintage packaging and lighting, coffee pot collection, old spice tins, miniature inlaid doll furniture, and all sorts of fun and whimsical finds that you seldom see at estates nowadays.

Going in a giant u-turn back into the garage near the street should take you to the tools, old tins, advertising, crates, odds and ends furniture, and all sorts of things in boxes for you to dig through till dark. This is where your journey ends as the crew will bring all of your items from your case choices to Mike to keep safe for you there, you will bring your box lots to be added up and paid for when you are tired out and we will bid you farewell until we see you soon again.

We thank you once more for your patronage and urge you to make the extra effort for your own sake to see what this lovely family home (which will also be for sale once we get it emptied) has to offer you and your own family and friends.

Good luck in your searches and thanks for the read.
Jen and Mike

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