The Smallsea Collection auction will be an online auction hosted by Alderfer Auctions in association with Eileen Rhoads. It will run from July 8 to July 22.
The Smallsea Museum Collection was amassed over the last 25 years. It includes dollhouse shops and town structures, furniture, accessories, dollhouse dolls, and other 1:12 scale miniatures created by hundreds of international artists both from the present and years gone by.
The auction will include:
- 1,000 pieces of furniture and accessories including items for shops, a church, a newspaper, funeral parlor, and many more
- 40 custom buildings- many featured over the last 20 years in major dollhouse and miniature magazines, websites, and newspapers
- 500 dollhouse dolls- many custom made for Smallsea
- 25+ automobiles and trucks, custom-made horse-drawn wagons and coaches, peddler carts, and specialty street-vendor displays
- Smallsea Circus, Summer Fair and Town Hall Christmas amusement and concession stalls, market vendor stalls and carts, an ice skating rink, skate shop and Christmas Emporium and market stall.
Photos, auction info and registration is available online.