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SUN. AUGUST 1, 2010 10:00 AM Preview: Sale day 8 am
N. KAWARTHA COMMUNITY CENTER APSLEY, ON

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APSLEY AUCTIONS presents an EXCITING LONG WEEKEND SALE
Sporting memorabilia, photographs & antiques from the estate of
Eugene Hurtubise (1880-1970)
SUN. AUGUST 1, 2010 10:00 AM Preview: Sale day 8 am
N. KAWARTHA COMMUNITY CENTER APSLEY, ON
The partial estate of an outstanding athlete, North American wrestling champion, inventor & all-round leading citizen of Peterborough with additions

SPORTS MEMORABILIA & PHOTOGRAPHS: many antique and vintage photographs including the following by Roy Studio - Eugene Hurtubise including 16 ½ “ x 11 ½ ” photo of 1900 Peterborough Rugby team, 16 ¾” x 13 ¾“ photo on card of 1903 Peterborough Football Club, 2 1900 photos of Hurtubise w/ teammates Jack Dainard and Dummy Gough, 17 x 11” photo of E. Hurtubise in TAS sweater in ornate antique pierced & gilded frame, reads “ Eugene Hurtubise, Amateur Wrestling Champion of America 1904”, 6 photos of Hurtubise posing with flexed muscles, signed Roy/Pet., photo on postcard in art deco mat, Other photos include 5x7” G E Whiten portrait of Eugene Hurtubise, Whiten photo on postcard “Les Nationals 1905 Ottawa City League Champions”, Rugby 1902 Champions, photograph on card, Lewis R. Parks photograph album of fire suit invention, 15 8x10” photos of firesuit invention, 7 8x10” photos of men w/ tractor, snapshots of fire suit, photograph of Hurtubise family home in Peterborough & South End garage(the family business, E.H.’s 1902 ORFU championship badge in frame, 4x6” photo of Laurent Hurtubise, E.H.’s hand crocheted rugby cap, mint 1947 Yankees baseball program, Philadelphia vs. New York(scorecard not filled out), 1947 ‘Yank’ Yankees publication, highlighting schedule for 1947 & information on players including rookie, Yogi Berra, ticket from 1903 wrestling match Hurtubise vs. Fritz Mohl, in Peterborough, complete set of O-pee-chee 1971-2 NHL hockey cards, including #14 Arnie Brown, Phil Esposito, Ken Dryden rookie, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr trophy card, Bobby Clark, Marcel Dionne rookie, Guy Lafleur rookie, Daryl Sittler, Bobby Orr first all-star team, #261 Bobby Hull 2nd all-star team, 266-Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe retires, #263 Jean Beliveau retires, also 1974 O PEE CHEE 264 card set of NHL cards(missing only the checklist,, all well-centered cards, also certified autograph cards: #1 Marcel Dion, #2 Bobby Hull, #3 Brad Park, #4 Gene Rattle, #5 Brett Hull, #6 Michel Goulet, 1972 Canada-Russia series poster; one of each team, 1974 Canada-Russia series Russian hockey stick, 1000+ Topps baseball cards 1958-1967, 100+ antique photographs and postcards, including turn of the century sets of Stony Lake photos in original cases, Ross photo of Smith Falls, 1903 postcards from Rainy River & Paris, Ontario, 1950’s postcards of Spain & Italy, Quebec postcards, 2 books of 32 postcards of Rome, rare luminous postcard of Mount Royal,, antique skis
ANTIQUE FURNITURE & HOUSEHOLD: 2 cutter quilts, antique heavily carved 6-legged desk, 1840’s black walnut arrow back Ohio rocking bench w/ pin and dowel construction, elm hall seat w/ mirror & hooks, secretary cabinet w/ 4 shelves & 3 drawers, antique iron bed frame, hand painted Gone-with-the-wind banquet lamp in Burmese over milk glass w/ ornate brass base, 30” tall, composite Plume & Atwood banquet lamp w/ cranberry glass shade 16 ½“, 2 Aladdin pedestal kerosene lamps w/ shades – 1 painted milk glass, 1 steel, 5 coal oil lamps include honeycomb thumbprint patten milk glass, Dr. Forbes floating bath thermometer, hand forged iron pot handler, Royal Canadian Art Pottery 12 cup teapot, 1847 patriotic quilt with eagle motif & 29 stars, measures 97 ½ x 70 ½ “, large primitive ship form metal weathervane, 59”L x 59”T, primitive wooden whirligig, primitive match safe marked OMJA, antique blown glass Christmas decorations, primitive sock stretchers, heavy oak bench on cast & wrought iron base, early ironstone platter & jug, 17th century halberd top, c.1850 child’s antique leather shoes w/ glass buttons, cobalt glass vase, 1890’a barber advertising combs, antique ironstone platter bl/wh England, signed cheese bell w/ fox & hounds painting, duck-form teapot, art deco decanter, stoneware snuff crock, inkwell & pen, silver overlay hotplate, c. 1850 ship’s anchor - admiralty pattern, 3 portrait miniatures on porcelain(framed), 4” & 13” broad axe, Medicine Hat pottery glazed pitcher, antique woven baskets, Pitcairn’s chamber pot, signed 18” wooden butter bowl w/ lip, wood & glass butter press, antique match safe, Victorian jewelry, wooden rakes, adzes, cross-cut saw, number sets, can of Hippo oil, drills, pulleys, wooden plane #5 England, Athol #500 square, hatchets, wooden pulleys, razor strop, bells
TOYS & COLLECTIBLES:, , antique 24” Gebruder-Heubach doll w/ orig. hair & petticoats, Bing Wheedon model hot air-driven fly wheel w/ cast iron base strapped brass cylinder C-8, Mamod steam tractor c-8, , miniature 1961 Evinrude 75HP Starflite outboard motor MIB, vintage Dinky tiny hooked rug for dollhouse, pr. Inuit dolls,Ukrainian, doll,.vintage Dinky yard goods crane/original box, vintage tackle box full of tackle including some MIP, fly-tying clamp, marine binoculars, many antique and vintage lures, Frabill’s MIN-O-LIFE bait bucket, vintage Chatillon fishing scale, 6 fishing rods, scuba knife, antique ALW folding fishing net, 1920’s CPR brass bell from dining car w/ beaver in casting, CPR fire poker, brass wall-mount marine bell, 1967 advertising poster for Carnaby Street market, early Peterborough ephemera includes 1927 historical souvenir book, 1932 Kellogg’s book premium, vintage deLaval advertising, 1940’s New York theatrical programmes & magazines, Ralph Stern playbill for Call Me Mister, antique glass-eyed carved & painted wooden decoys, 2 Royal Canadian Engineers WWII medals(framed, 1930 leather bridge wallet, green ironstone hat ashtray, marked T/N, Shelley cups & saucers, rare 1880 tealeaf ironstone wedding jug jug marked S.B. & Sons W/ 2 pink rings twined on handle, 2 polychrome vases . native-made antique glass-beaded cushion, 1880’s silver serving ladle, cheese box, product tins, thumbprint glass serving bowl, key-wind brass doorbell, jewelry to include locket on chain/box, large Austrian platter w/ multiple images, artist’s supply counter-top sales display box, red slag glass mug/birds/tree pattern, large crystal bowls, T. Gresley oversized cup & saucer, complete service Myott ‘The Hunter’ pattern, carved and inlaid boxes, mugs ++, native woven cotton rug, vintage wool blanket, Stanley Handyman plane/original box, WWI bayonet, complete roll of Bancroft Dairy chocolate milk caps, footed carnival glass pitcher & goblet, Crown Ducal serving bowl,
ART: original Ozias Leduc sketch, Richard Kamalatisit serigraph of men in small boat 22 ½”X18 ½” 67/82, Hurtubise basset hound carving, Hurtubise hand carved frames, Charlie Chee-Choo wood carving of spirit profile(24”), bone carving of goose taking off, on antler base, signed E8-1581, 2 soapstone carvings, slight damage signed E-91879 & E-91845, soapstone disk w/ boy fishing signed Liku, tiny soapstone carving of man pulling seal from ice w/ 3 microscopic men in foreground, (carved from one piece of stone)pulling in same seal, signed Adamie SCP, soapstone turtle carving, 1954 bronze of buffalo marked Trepels Studio, Winnipeg, water colour by Ron Solonas, “Hummingbird”, 1955 French Canadian carving of a woman, Southern Potteries hand painted dish USA, Fred R. Hancock vase, signed# LR410, native-made decorated bowl made from gourd, geometric pattern, stunning carving “The Meeting Place” by J.B. Thompson(this sculpture won 1st place in the 2001 Lakefield fair. 3 original paintings by A.G. Villeneuve, limited edition Michael Dumas print, 1950 Tom Thomson print, Edwin Matthews limited edition print, framed Marilyn Monroe poster, antique native-made stag horn candelabra w/ carved design, etchings, Ruth Chapman oil on board of Bedford Mills, Tom Spatafore srtist’s proof –Speckled Trout, oil on board of seagulls signed DM, antique framed prints, carved and painted duck signed Jewett Green, NB, Howard Chandler Christie lithograph in antique frame, hand carved wooden plaque signed FK, burlwood carving of turtle, antique driftwood carving of figure,
OTHER: 9’ foot male polar bear rug, measures 14” from ear to ear, long thick fur, made in Winnipeg, vintage leopard skin coat, made in Paris (exc.), Ted Moores handmade canoe w/ display saddles & removable hand-made seat
History & provenance: Eugene Hurtubise was a great man in many ways. He stood 6’4” & held the North American amateur wrestling title from 1904-7. He was also on the Peterborough champion rugby/football teams from 1900-1907, becoming captain in the later years. Hurtubise was employed at age 16, by Currie & Lavinger, to build the Peterborough lift lock. Because of his experience, he went on to supervise the sinking of the elevator shaft at Niagara Falls, all before the age of 25. Later, employed by General Electric, he invented a steam-powered well-digger to solve the lack of water at the company owned golf club. In 1942, Hurtubise invented the first effective fire suit, (now in the Coburg Museum) which was copied by US & Canadian armed forces. Also a community-spirited individual, he coached the Peterborough Liftlockers hockey team & lived most of his adult life in a large house on the northeast corner of Stewart & Sherbrooke Streets in Peterborough. He also carved as a hobby. The many positive impacts of his achievements are still felt today.

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