Photos and full descriptions will be on the Aumannsite beginning in April. The second installment will feature more than 100 gas engines, antiques, engine parts, equipment and more, including engines made by Otto, Cook, Lambert, Brown and Cochran, Crossley, Ruston & Hornsby, Domestic, Fairbanks, International, New Way and others. Those who missed out on the first installment will get another chance on June 30, 2020, with the second installment of the auction, also hosted online by Aumann. Among some of the more affordable - but still interesting - engines on the block were a 1-1/2 HP Ideal by Goold, Shapley and Muir that sold for $840, and a 1 HP Rock Island that went for $861. If you wanted a piece of this historic collection but weren’t willing to spend the big bucks, there were also plenty of good bargains to be had. Also notable were the high prices obtained by some early scale-model salesman sample engines as well as some contemporary scale models built by Wayne Grenning. Among the rare engines to go under the hammer, a 6 HP Miller camstopper sold for $42,000, a Charter engine went for $35,700, and a mostly original 4 HP Ohio sold for $26,250. Mentioned in the February/March 2020 issue of Gas Engine Magazine, the Wolf Collection is known as one of the finest private collections of gas engines in the world, and the winning bids received for some of the rarer engines certainly supported that notion. The online auction, hosted by Aumann Auctions Inc., featured more than 100 gas engines as well as portable steam engines and other pieces of early machinery. Old iron brought big bucks at the first of two installments of the Kenny and Wendy Wolf Collection auction, Nov. It is an 89megabyte file if anyone has file share I can send it to them.For sale locally I reserve the right to end the auction early.This Callahan salesman sample is believed to be the only one in existence and sold for $23,625. I took a video of the engine running this morning i need to change the format to load to youtube. The flywheels are tight no wobble.Some people have requested to look at the engine I will be available Thursday before noon and Sunday the auction does close Sunday. The small amount of paperwork I have uses this S/N. Please ask questions before bidding.There is no brass tag but the picture shows the stamped serial number. I haven't started it in a few years but it has always has been a good runner, good compression. There is also a reproduction parts and instruction manual. One of the previous owners did some research and there is some paperwork that shows the engine sold in Ontario, Canada in 1923. Item: 142983325813 Stover K type Hit Miss Engine 1 1/2- 2 Horsepower.
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