JOHN COX COLLECTION

JOHN COX COLLECTION

Friday, December 1 @ 9:00 a.m.

Iman Auction Center - 34614 Hwy 24, Salisbury, MO 65281

John Cox served 10 years in the US Navy, followed by a career as a pilot for TWA.  He has collected a bit of everything over the years, but focused on his love of motorbikes and toy airplanes.  This will be a large 1-day auction with many rare and unusual items.

MOTORBIKES & BICYCLES: rare Honda Motocompo fold-up, only made for 3 years, & not sold in US; Fuji Rabbit Superflow S-601, w/chrome trim to be attached; Globester scooter, c. 1949, engine overhauled (not running); Di Blasi 49cc fold-up motorbike; Italjet Kit Kat fold-up motorbike w/Gyromat motor; Micron push-start scooter w/Solex engine; Vespa Piaggio Grande 50cc moped; Cady Motobécane moped, 49.9cc; Monarch bicycle converted w/Whizzer kit, restored; Doodle Bug (Webster City, IA, c. 1946-’48) converted to 3-wheel w/Coca-Cola cooler; ‘70s Honda motorcycle; c. 1940s-‘70s bicycles; two Solex 3800 motorized bicycles; vintage minibikes & mopeds…

PEDAL CARS & MANUAL BIKES: Kidillac pedal car; Soviet Moskvich AZLK pedal car; great old dad & lad kit car; c. 1940s scooter; pedal tractors; heavy carnival ride? scooter; chassis for rare small scale ’56 Chevy dealer award made by Yardman, c. late 1960s; bike art Tin Man on unicycle, unfinished w/parts…

MOTORBIKE, BICYCLE & AVIATION PARAPHENALIA: Amazing collection of 100+ early steel & wooden toy airplanes, as well as wind-up & Japanese friction; lg. wooden airplane propeller; Artificial horizon from WWII British Spitfire; Gyro Horizon; Montgomery Airshow poster; Doodle Bug Hiawatha advert.; real photo posters of early aircraft; vint. TWA posters; vint. flight maps; motorcycle license plates; box of Schwinn & other bicycle parts; Bike Machine bicycle engine; metal & leather TWA pilot luggage; Planes & Jets lg. coloring book; US Navy War Photographs book; vint. motorcycle helmets; Aircraft Screw Products stud driver in case…

OHLSSON & RICE: O&R Tiny Tiger model airplane engine; chainsaw w/O&R engine; O&R front engine for bicycle; Chicago Electric sm. generator…

HUNDREDS of TOYS: early rubber band propelled tin Eagle Air Scout airplane; lg. Steelcraft Army Scout airplane; lg. Pan-Am steel airplane; bat-op American Airlines N4070A; sm. Wyandotte Crusader & Mooney Mite airplanes; Buddy-L Automatic Tailgate loader ride-on truck; Buddy-L Deluxe Rider Dump (ride-on) Truck; Buddy-L 2592 U.S. Mail truck; Buddy-L Hydraulic Dumper; Buddy-L & other fire engines; early Marion steam shovel; Structo Grain Hauler; Structo Ready Mix truck; Lumar Willy’s Jeep; superb sm. station wagon pulling camper (Japan); Ertl Hughs helicopter; Nylint bat-op Electronic Canon military truck; Nylint Michigan mod. T-24; Dept. of Sanitation truck; Ertl TWA Douglas DC-3 (NIB); Ertl Farmall & John Deere tractors; Marx Caterpillar; Tonka Farms stock truck; Tonka pickup camper; Tonka Rescue ambulance; Superior airport; Ohio Art toy barn set; c. 1950s Marx doll house w/furniture; several Erector sets in wooden, cardboard & plastic cases; FP Construx, Power Blocks, etc.; Buddy-L, Structo, Tonka, Nylint, Dinky, Hotwheels, Ertl, etc.; Boxes & boxes of toy parts; Boxes & boxes of trains & track of various gauges, i.e. Lionel, Marx, Kusan, etc., transformers by American Flyer, Meccano, etc.; Xonex LE Army Pursuit model pedal toy plane; Xonex Coca-Cola model Vespa; 2 metal cases filled w/bat-op airplanes; Italian port. foosball table…

CARNIVAL & ADVERTISING: Ford 1¢ gumball machine on orig. pedestal; 1¢ gum dispenser; metal carousel boat; Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency sign; Bourbon County Line sign; porcelain Public Telephone Pay Station 2-sided flange sign; porcelain Broadway & School St. signs; We Give Unique Gift Stamps sign; Coca-Cola Specials Today menu board; Curtis Industries 2-sided hanging key sign; Cook Paints sign; Phone From Car sign; P(arking) sign; 4% Farm Loans embossed sign; I-35 & other traffic signs; Men Working free-standing sign; 7UP metal crates; Here’s Refreshment Coca-Cola fiber sign; Pepsi restaurant clock…

PRACTICAL TOOLS: upright milling machine; joiner; sweet jeweler’s lathe; vint. Craftsman metal lathe; Ridgid port. air compressor; port. stacking tool chests; metal tool boxes; surveyor’s transit; several small engines…

ANVIL, ANTIQUE TOOLS & INSTRUMENTS: lg. American anvil & hardies; Collection of 19^th & early 20^th C. tools; Collection of antique locks; cast iron dinner bell; brass bugle; brass fire extinguisher; Kellog & other wall phones; lg. steel yards; Amer. Family scale; Big 6 elec. lantern; brass steam whistle; brass squeeze ball horn; vint. auto horns; carbide lantern w/jewels; Army trench shovel; dozens of wooden ammo, chemical, liquor & produce crates; stacks of vint. wire swimming pool baskets; hardware chest w/wooden drawers…

COLLECTIBLES & ODDITIES: Kangaroo pelts; Silverleaf sheeting; Mt. Fuji puzzle box; French compass in wd. case; binoculars; display of various barbed wire samples on canvas; antique snow sled; faux DeLuxe catalog key cabinet; Roth’s Service Station photo; sm. clay heads; Cracker Jack charms; Dilsbry-Becker refrigeration gauge; brass New Idea 1899-1949 paperweight; Lask belt buckle; collectible smalls, watches, buttons, mills, etc…

FURNITURE: late 19^th C. family-made drafting desk; metal cargo box addressed for Sudan; military foot locker…