Wonderful Winchester Tim’s Ford Lake Estate Sale

A BOOK LOVER’S DREAM! HUGE LIBRARY, TENNESSEE HISTORY, VINTAGE PRINT, ANTIQUES & A GARAGE FULL OF TREASURES!

Tri-Star Estate Sales is excited to bring you an absolutely fascinating estate packed with BOOKS, BOOKS & MORE BOOKS, vintage magazines, Tennessee and local history, travel material, paper ephemera, antiques, furniture, artwork, collectibles, household treasures, garage finds and so much more!

If you love old books, local history, Tennessee history, magazines, maps, travel memorabilia, vintage paper or simply digging through a lifetime collection, you DO NOT want to miss this sale!

This home contains an unusually large personal library with hundreds upon hundreds of books and printed materials. The shelves are filled with vintage hardcovers, classic literature, history, biographies, presidential material, Americana, reference books, religion, travel, local history, Tennessee books, fiction, nonfiction and much more.

📚 HUGE BOOK & PRINT COLLECTION

Just some of the titles, authors and collections spotted throughout the library include:

TENNESSEE & LOCAL HISTORY

1. Tennessee Country: In the Land of Their Fathers
2. The Story of Tennessee
3. Majors of Tennessee
4. Focus on Franklin County
5. The Last Whole Earth Catalog
6. Tennessee Blue Book
7. A Tennessee Legend: A Pictorial of Old Bottles & Jugs
8. The Lost Letters of Jenny Lind
9. Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel
10. You Can Go Home Again — Johnny Majors with Ben Byrd
11. Tennessee-related books, publications, maps, pamphlets and local-history material
12. Historic Franklin County material
13. Tennessee newspapers and reproductions
14. Local and regional ephemera

AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL & POLITICAL HISTORY

1. A Sense of History
2. American Heritage History of the United States
3. The American People: A Short History
4. Government in the United States
5. The Constitution of Our United States
6. American Triumph: The John S. D. Eisenhower Novels
7. The International Lesson Annual 1969
8. The Greatest Generation Speaks
9. The President Is Missing — Bill Clinton & James Patterson
10. Culture Warrior — Bill O’Reilly
11. Intelligence Matters — Bob Graham
12. Virginia Kelley: Leading With My Heart
13. A Man for All People
14. Presidential, political, military and American-history volumes throughout

CLASSIC LITERATURE & VINTAGE BOOKS

1. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volumes One & Two — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
3. The Citadel — A. J. Cronin
4. The Keys of the Kingdom — A. J. Cronin
5. Imperial Woman — Pearl S. Buck
6. American Triptych — Pearl S. Buck
7. A Breath of Air — Rumer Godden
8. The Burning Fuse — Ben Benson
9. The Big Fisherman — Lloyd C. Douglas
10. The Scapegoat — Daphne du Maurier
11. The Masons of Limbo — Dominick Dunne
12. The Magic Cottage — James Herbert
13. Rabble in Arms — Kenneth Roberts
14. A Sound of Lightning
15. The Phantom of the Opera
16. The New England Story
17. Seven Days in May
18. The World’s Best
19. The Windfall Child
20. A Thousand Springs
21. Fire on the Mountain
22. The Boy in the Pool
23. The Golden Journey
24. The Mirror Crack’d
25. The Fair
26. The Breaking Wave
27. The Scent of Water
28. Triumph
29. The Lady and the Deep Blue Sea
30. Streets of Laredo
31. European Since 1914: In Its World Setting
32. The Great Tradition
33. The Horn and the Forest
34. A Bromfield Galaxy
35. Indigo Bend
36. The Sojourner
37. The Fields of Home
38. The Disenchanted
39. Vintage Reader’s Digest books and collections

MORE MODERN & POPULAR TITLES/AUTHORS

1. David Baldacci
2. Bob Schieffer — This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV
3. James Patterson
4. Jimmy Carter
5. Scott Turow
6. Jackie Collins
7. Margaret Truman
8. John Grisham-era fiction and similar popular hardcover novels
9. The Christmas Train
10. We Seven — by the astronauts themselves
11. Swimming in Sky
12. Mary Wilson: Dreamgirl
13. A Year of Health Hints
14. Before Wagner’s Creek Ran Dry
15. Household Hints
16. A tremendous assortment of fiction, nonfiction, memoirs and biographies

REFERENCE, ANTHOLOGIES & SETS

1. The World Book Encyclopedia set
2. Encyclopedia of the Horse
3. Encyclopedia of World Travel
4. TIME: This Fabulous Century
5. Reader’s Digest Condensed Books — a large collection spanning numerous years
6. Reader’s Digest collections and reference volumes
7. American Poetry and Prose
8. The New College Omnibus
9. Acocca: An Autobiography — Lee Iacocca
10. The Smithsonian Experience
11. The Stamp Catalog
12. Numerous encyclopedias, reference books, coffee-table books and illustrated volumes

RELIGIOUS BOOKS

1. Multiple vintage Bibles
2. Holy Bibles
3. Daily Bible
4. Religious and inspirational books
5. Vintage devotional material
6. Christian books and publications

📰 MAGAZINES, MAPS & PAPER COLLECTIBLES

This estate has an enormous amount of vintage printed material!

There are stacks and stacks of National Geographic magazines, including what appears to be a substantial multi-year collection. You’ll also find:

1. Vintage National Geographic
2. GEO magazines
3. LIFE magazine material
4. Tennessee magazines
5. Travel magazines
6. Vintage travel guides
7. Road maps
8. Tourism brochures
9. Plymouth Traveler travel publications
10. Washington, D.C. travel material
11. Historic-site brochures
12. Maps and transportation material
13. Pamphlets
14. Booklets
15. Newspaper-related material
16. Old advertisements and publications
17. Paper ephemera
18. Vintage albums and bound books
19. An autograph album
20. Old yearbooks/bound commemorative volumes
21. And boxes, shelves and stacks of additional printed material!

Collectors, historians, resellers, decorators, scrapbookers and ephemera collectors could spend hours digging through this collection.

🪑 ANTIQUES, FURNITURE & HOME FURNISHINGS

The sale doesn’t stop with the library!

Throughout the home you’ll find:

1. Mid-Century Modern dining table with 6 chairs
2. Antique oak display cabinet with glass on all four sides
3. Large matching wood bookcases/display cabinets
4. Drop-leaf table
5. Pedestal table
6. Wood chairs
7. Occasional tables
8. Mirrors
9. Lamps
10. Vintage lighting
11. Decorative accessories
12. Carved wooden bookends
13. Vintage frames
14. Framed artwork
15. Original-looking paintings and landscapes
16. Prints
17. Blue & white china/decor
18. Asian-inspired decorative pieces
19. Glassware
20. Pottery
21. Baskets
22. Household accessories
23. And much more throughout the home

🏡 OUTDOORS & GARAGE

DO NOT SKIP THE GARAGE!

The garage is PACKED FULL OF TREASURES and adds an entirely different dimension to this sale.

Look for:

1. Tools
2. Lawn & garden tools
3. Ladders
4. Canning jars
5. Garage and workshop items
6. Vintage University of Tennessee VOLUNTEERS stadium seat
7. White garage refrigerator
8. Deep freezer
9. Wrought-iron outdoor table & chairs
10. Wooden bench
11. Concrete yard statues
12. Outdoor and garden items
13. Miscellaneous hardware
14. Useful household and garage items
15. Plenty more waiting to be discovered!

🍊 TENNESSEE COLLECTORS — TAKE NOTE!

Between the Tennessee books, Franklin County material, Tennessee publications, local-history pieces, maps, travel material and vintage University of Tennessee Vols stadium seat, there is a particularly fun assortment here for Tennessee collectors.

⭐ THIS IS A DIGGER’S SALE!

This is one of those estates where you need to slow down and LOOK. There are books tucked onto shelf after shelf, stacks of magazines, vintage publications, local-history pieces, furniture, artwork, decorative accessories and a garage full of additional finds.

Whether you’re a book collector, Tennessee historian, antique dealer, reseller, decorator, ephemera collector, National Geographic collector, vintage-paper enthusiast, furniture shopper, tool buyer or someone who simply loves the thrill of an estate sale, there is something here for you.

Come prepared to spend some time—you won’t see everything with one quick walk through the house!

And as always, there is SO MUCH MORE than we could ever photograph or list!