Mystery Sale Looms From Uncle Mikes Vast Lancaster Collection
The Lancaster County auctioneer plans a May 26 sale of Uncle Mike Bender’s famed collection. The notes show six rooms and two basements filled with pewter, pocket watches, razors, and old calendars and papers, with further items revealed as spaces empty toward the walls.
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Millersville
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Mike
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Parke Shaub
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Uncle Mike
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Uncle Mikes Corner Buried in Heaps of Clutter
A reader describes Uncle Mikes Corner where vast piles of boxes and buckets fill rooms leaving only a narrow path from doorway to bed. A metal kitchen stool tilts on the cluttered floor and six stove holes are blocked by nonflammable metal stacks.
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Mike
Uncle Mike
Auction of Uncle Mikes Oddities Draws Deep Collecting Crowd
A long cherished storage of Uncle Mikes items fills rooms and porches as auctioneers cart away hundreds of relics. From guns and bullets to Edison phonographs and dish sets, prices climb with each discovery.
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Gettysburg
Mike
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