50% OFF EVERYTHING -- SISTERS ANTIQUES ESTATE SALE -- BELLEVUE

EVERYTHING IS HALF OFF ON SUNDAY BEGINNING AT 9:00 A.M. 

*** This sale is located on a private road with parking for residents only.  We will be running a shuttle throughout the day to transport people to and from the house.  If you have more than one person in your car, you can be dropped off and your driver can take the shuttle.  We will make arrangements IF you buy large pieces that require your vehicle or a moving company to pick them up. ***

Sign-up sheet is on the gate and will be moved to the main street around 8:00 a.m. Sunday -- look for the SHUTTLE sign.

Description of sale:  In the heart of Bellevue, long before strip malls, major department stores, and massive highrises, this family designed and built their forever home in 1957.  Age and health issues are now forcing them to move into assisted living where they can receive the care necessary to keep them well. 

Shortly after meeting at a USO dance, they married and began raising a family.  Both spent many years in the field of education; he taught at Mercer Island High School and later became principal.  In addition, he started the first alternative high school in the city.  Retiring at 50, he continued in the Naval Reserve as a commissioned officer.

Both shared a love of gardening; he bred Rhododendrons, traveling as far as China to collect seeds.  He was active in various Rhododendron organizations, a member of the Cascade Rhododendron Society and past president of the American Rhododendron Society.  He later became interested in native plants and was an active member in the Washington Native Plant Society.  He operated a wholesale plant business on the property for thirty years.

She enjoyed the fiber arts, including knitting, becoming a skilled weaver, a complicated process that involves warping a loom, as well as the actual weaving process.  She was a member of the Seattle Weaver's Guild.

The couple loved to travel and took the family on several trips to Mexico and Hawaii, to share their enjoyment. Their love of Mexico is evident in the many works of local art that they collected over the years.  Both enjoyed the arts, travel, and gardening, and their extensive book collection also reflects this interest.

A partial list includes:  1800s walnut dining table with leaves, albums/vinyls, American oak antique drop front secretary with display cupboard, antique dolls, antique woodworking planes and clamps, art, art books, barrel rings (think garden orbs), baskets, bed frame, bells, Big Little books, bird houses, blue antique stoneware bowl, Blue Willow collection hundreds of pieces, book collections, books, bookshelves, Brambach grand piano, building supplies, camera tripods, cameras vintage Wetzlar Royal Kodak and more, chain link gates, chairs, children’s antique books, china, Christmas miscellaneous, clothing vintage, coffee tables, collectible rocks, collectibles, Columbia table-top Grafanola, computers and computer equipment, cookbooks, copper, Corningware, couch, craft, crocks, Curtis photogravure, cut crystal, Depression glass, dog supplies, dolls vintage and antique, dressers, end tables, exercise equipment, extensive book collections including gardening, weaving and loom, bibles, rhododendron and native plants, etc., extra large trunk, fabric, fine antique linens, fishing gear, frames, futon, games and cards vintage, gardening/yard supplies and tools, giant recorder, globe, Graflex 22 camera, Griswold cast iron, hand tools, Harrisville Design loom, household items, housewares, Indian child’s vintage moccasins, insulators, jewelry, Jose Manual Robles art, Kachina vintage dolls, Karastan rugs, Kenneth Reid vintage turquoise wood inlaid belt buckle Albuquerque, Keurig, kitchen items vintage, kitchen utensils, Kodak 4400 projector, Kusak Crystal collection, ladies’ hats vintage, lamp tables, lamps, large old paned windows, large woven suitcase, linens, Lionel trains and accessories, Lloyd Loom chairs, looms, luggage, magazines vintage, marble-topped buffet sideboard and large mirror (priced separately), Marcrest tankards, matching dressers, mechanical drawing supplies, Mexican clay pottery collection, Mexican terra cotta, Mexican tiles, microscopes, Mid-century modern furniture, miniature pine needle basket, mirrors, Motorola 1993 cellular mobile and carry phone accessory, music books, musical instruments, Native American items, Northwest Coast Indian art, nursery growing pots and trays hundred/thousands, oak antique desk from post office, old guy’s tool room, old paper, outdoor pottery, pedestal sink, Peruvian rugs, petrified wood, plant reference books, Pleasantime plastic poker chips, posters, pottery, power tools, printer, produce scale vintage, puppet vintage, purses, Pyrex, R.H.S. Colour Chart The Royal Horticultural Society London, RCA Victor gramophone, record book albums, record players, records 33 78, Remington Rand vintage typewriter, Rhododendron Yearbooks 1940s, rock collections, round oak antique coffee table primitive, rugs Mexican Peruvian, Sara Parker signed art 9/100, Seahawks cups, seashell collections, sewing patterns vintage, sewing supplies, sheet music vintage, silver plate, slide rules, small appliances, specimen plants, spinning wheels antique, spongeware, sporting goods, Stanley planes, sterling, stools, TCW (Wheaton) Co. vintage apothecary bottles with stoppers, tea cups and saucers, teak outdoor furniture, terra cotta, Thonet chairs, tinware, tools, transferware, tripods, trumpets, twig/branch benches, ukuleles/banjos, U.S. Aqua pure drinking water (part of the family bomb shelter supplies during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis), Victorian platform rocker glider, vintage gardening treasures, Walton Butts prints, Watt large bowl #39, weaving equipment, weaving textile crochet knitting loom books huge collection, weavings, Weller Ware Zona Pottery, wooden dairy crates 1950s, wooden bobbin yarn spools, yellowware bowl…

A few more additions (but not all are listed!):  2 workshops with tons of tools, A/C, antique walnut dining table square with 4 leaves, cane seated chairs, chain saw, Craftsman table saw, dolls, fishing flies, games old, ice chests, ladies' vintage hats, large Hobart scale, leaf blowers, Navy captain’s hat, old hardware, old screen doors, outdoor lights, pocket knives, rolltop desk ladies’ size, shutters, Weber kettle barbecue

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phone:  Patty (206) 914-6150

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email:  patty@sistersantiques.com