4-12-2026 | Galena IL – Terry Miller Estate Auction: Primitive Cabinets and Furniture, Collectibles 🗓

DATE: Sunday, April 12th @10:30 am

LOCATION:  Auction will start @ 117 Kelly Lane with bigger primitive furniture & appliances and then balance will be held indoors at the former Galena Primary School @ 219 Kelly Lane, Galena, Ill.

NOTE:  Terry was a well known Galena/Hanover historian collecting primitive things.

He was a life long Jo Daviess County resident  & a Republican chairperson.  Many items too numerous to mention.  Removal of larger items within 10 days & by appt.

PRIMITIVE CABINETS & FURNITURE, ETC:  Pine cabinets: 41”wide x7ft.tall w/7-shelves; 4’ wide x 7 ft. tall w/7-shelves; 17”wide x 7ft.tall w/2-doors & 4-shelves; 3ft tall 7ft long buffet; 34” wide x 5ft tall w/glass door;  very nice oak china  cabinet-10ft.long, 18” deep, 8ft tall , top has 4-sliding glass doors, bottom has 4-wooden doors w/ornate carving; 40”long x 6ft tall china cabinet; pine-39” long x 6 1/2 ft tall; Pine 2-piece kitchen cabinet 68” long x 7 1/2 ft. tall; 2-door cab-40”x 6ft tall; oak 2-door cab-51”wide x 6 1/2 ft tall x16” deep; Wainscoting 5ft wide x 6ft tall; 8ft long x 5ft tall w/4-glass doors; pine 45” wide x 6ft tall w/4-wooden doors; Wainscoting 3ft wide x 7ft.tall;  oak roll top desk; oak kitchen table; Architectural table w/glass surface top; commodes;Many wooden trunks; Coca Cola wood Trunk; pine chicken nest; Childs writing desk; wooden pedestal plant stand; pine & oak bed headboards; oak drop leaf table; Pine kitchen table; trunk-via NY-Hilarius Hamerli wood box; adv. thermometers & calendars;

TV & APPLIANCES;  48” Vizio flat screen; like new Maytag washer & dryer; Tappan elec. stove; upright Frigidaire refrigerator; GE 10 cu.ft upright freezer;  Whirlpool Microwave; TREADMILL: non motorized new in box;

PRIMITIVE COLLECTIBLES: 1920 Merry Christmas/Happy New Year flag w/calendar; Lots of Ballot Boxes-wooden & metal; wooden piece w/pigeon holes;  wooden marble games-unique; chairs inc. cane bottom, rd back, office chairs; 2-gum ball machines; many wooden boxes inc. B&W Scotch Whiskey-Scotland; Potosi Brewing Company.; Standard Stock Linimen; Wood egg crate; milk can; sleigh bells; sleds; US Knife; JoDaviess belt buckles; adv. yard sticks; metal boy lawn sprinkler; Galena brick; Black Americana dancing minstrel jig toy;  Seth Thomas mantel clock; kerosene lamps & lanterns; Ukraine & Russian nesting dolls; crocks; enamel coffee pot; cigar boxes; many New Orleans folk art; framed Galena town by Carl Johnson; jailhouse & Skelton keys; Lincoln Logs; Toy cap gun w/holster; cigar mold; coin bank-US Postal w/key;  metal decorative boxes; painting-Autumn Moon by Orion White; many pocket watches; War Ration items; Galena 1844 photo; 1962 Chadwick calendar; 1969 Hanover High Basketball schedule; Rat-A-Tat gun;

OLD TOYS: Tonka grader & crane; Wyandotte semi w/cattle trailer; US Army Truck; Three Stooges dolls & books;

METAL SIGNS,TINS, COOKIE CUTTERS: Signs inc. Shullsburg Osborne for Clothing; Coco Cola; Hot Dog; Old Fashion Root Beer; Wrigley’s Gum; Santa Claus; Large Watermelon Reasonable Price Sign; Dog & Suds; Home of the $50,000 Chocolate Soda, Sandman’s Rexall Store; Lionel Train;  metal Vicks display rack; Tins inc. McCormick; Ritz; Red Dot Chips; Blue Star; Foldgers; Campbells; Barnum-Cracker; Chesty Chips; Sunbeam; Tootsie’s Drive-In; Pepsi; Hiland Chips; Pizza Pie; Howell’s Root Beer; Bumper Car; Twinkle Bev; Blue Moon Light; spice tins; metal pill boxes; Price Albert; Band-Aid; Raleigh; Velvet; Red Dot; Quaker Oats; plus more; Many metal cookie cutters;

FIGURINE & EGG COLLECTIONS: Aunt Jemima-different sizes; cast iron roosters; Santas; Snowmen; Uncle Sam; elephants; cats; birds; Many Ukrainian Easter eggs; Monkey nurse & doctor;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS:  Very Old inc. Conn, USA Saxophone w/case; Frank Holton Co, Elkhorn, WI Cornet; Arbuckle model brass Army Cornet in wooden case;

ATLAS, PLAT BOOKS, BOOKS & MAGAZINES: 2-1913 JoDaviess Standard Atlas/plat books; Beatle Books; Lanark, Galena, Chicago Centennial Books; 1957 Shrine Circus Souvenir Program; Children’s Books; lg. ass’t of Galena phone books back to 1950;  Many local township precinct voting books back to 1936; Lots of old Life magazines;

RECORDS: 11- Disney record albums;

MILITARY ITEMS: Lots of old Army & Military items; US service flags; Desert Storm trading cards;

PRESIDENTIAL ITEMS:  President Statues & Plates; Ronald Reagan Books & Pictures; Abe Lincoln books;  framed photos;  election pins;  JFK trading cards; signed Ronald Reagan news clipping; 1953 President bottle;

GLASSWARE & DISHES; Potosi glass; Tom & Jerry mix bowl; wedding before/after S&P’s;  cruet set;  milk bottles inc. Hanover Dairy; Crown Childs dish;  lead glass bowls; crock bowls; Hanover woolen mills creamer;  green & pink depression; candy dishes; China set; Carnival bowls; Sayaria vase; pottery pitcher; Mr. Peanut dishes; Art Deco footed bowl;  pyrex bowls; Corningware casseroles;