Three turn-of-the-century motor vehicles will headline Miller & Miller's online auction Sept. 10th

NEW HAMBURG, Ontario - Aug. 29, 2022 - PRLog -- Three extremely rare, turn-of-the-century motor vehicles – a 1907 REO Model A 5-passenger touring car, an 1899 Stanley Stanhope No. 1 "Locomobile" and a prototype of the 1911 Model H REO pickup truck – are the headliners in Miller & Miller Auctions' online-only Petroliana & Advertising auction planned for Saturday, September 10^th.

The 407-lot auction, beginning at 9 am Eastern time, will also feature petroliana (gas station items), advertising signs, general store, steam, railroad, music machines and bicycles. "I'm excited about the variety in this sale," said Justin Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. "It's what makes our auctions so entertaining."

Miller added, "Often we see buyers come to our auctions with the idea that they will purchase a certain type of collectible, but they end up with something else completely different that just happened to catch their eye. Without the variety that we strive to provide, buyers don't have the opportunity to branch out into different areas of collecting. And this auction does have variety."

With a pre-sale estimate of $40,000-$60,000, the 1907 REO Model A 5-passenger touring car is the sale's expected top lot. This early and unusual vehicle was the brainchild of Ransom E. Olds (creator of the curved dash Oldsmobile). For years the car was on proud display at the Horseless Carriage Museum in Fenelon Falls, Ontario (likewise the following two). It was restored in 2006.

All estimates quoted in this report are in Canadian dollars.

The 1899 Stanley Stanhope Model No. 1 "Locomobile", made by the Locomobile Company of America, was very popular and quickly became known as the "Stanley Steamer" due to its quiet but powerful two-cylinder steam engine. The literature boasted it "weighs less than 400 pounds and is odorless and noiseless when in use." The boiler has been rebuilt (est. $40,000-$45,000).

The eye-catching variant and potential prototype of the 1911 Model H REO pickup truck, made by the REO Motor Truck Company in Lansing, Michigan, has been fully restored and features the merchant "Ballantine & Taby". Ads for the truck (also designed by R. E. Olds) claimed it could "do the work of three horse-drawn trucks at less than half the cost" (est. $20,000-$25,000).

Internet bidding will be thru the Miller & Miller website (www.MillerandMillerAuctions.com), as well as LiveAuctioneers.com. For more info, visit www.millerandmillerauctions.com.