Hanna Estate Services - The Estate of Steve Gilmer of “What’s on 2nd”

  Steve Gilmer was the owner of "What's on 2nd" and was well known in the antiques and collectibles world for decades before he opened his retail shop in downtown Birmingham. His tragic and sudden passing last November left a void not only in the Birmingham, Alabama community, but in the hearts of all of his friends around the country.

     This estate sale features the best of the best of his many years of collecting and includes:

• Well known signs and advertising pieces from all around the greater Birmingham and Bessemer area.
• Thousands of his absolute best antique postcards and trade-cards which were never intended to be sold at his store.

Other items of interest includes:

-Antique teddy bear collection

-Vintage Christmas, vintage Halloween, and Vintage Easter decor

-Alabama memorabilia

-Bronze sculptures

-Vintage movie posters

-Antique toys and games

-Cracker Jack toy collection

-Novelty and political pins from the past century

-Antique tins

-Coca Cola memoribilia

-Antique elevator from Loveman’s department store (currently being used as a gazebo)

-Antique postcards, trade cards, Victorian scrap, die-cuts, antique scrapbooks

-Antique letterheads, letters, paper

-cigar, cigarette and tobacco signs, store display signs, etc 

-Advertising ephemera

-travel labels

-travel maps, pamphlets and maps

-advertising posters and store display

-Antique Christmas ornaments

-Vintage jewelry

-Mid century modern kitsch

and so much more!

-keep checking photos as we will add more as we continue to unpack and set up.