The online auction is almost over!We made one big change to the auction this year: we worked with 32Auctions, an online auction service that let you see your bid posted immediately; sign up to be notified if (or when) you are outbid; and enter a “proxy bid.” We hope you liked the bells and whistles!
You can still bid in the online auction: https://www.32auctions.com/westwestcommunityfair. Online bidding closes at 5 pm TODAY, at which point the current highest bidder for each item will be declared the winner, and we’ll make arrangements over the following days to connect them with their treasures. There is a list of some of the auction items below, but the real action is on the 32auctions website. More items came in during the auction, so go take a look!
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Westminster Cares has donated two (2) tickets to the Westminster Garden Tour of the Haywards’ gardens, including one free lunch special. Estimated value: $45. Minimum bid: $10.
Cafe Loco in Westminster has donated two (2) gift certificates, each qualifying the bearer for one of their fabulous Key Lime pies by Michael Lenox. Estimated value of each pie: $30. Minimum bid for each pie: $10.
Allison Deen has donated a framed print of chickadees. Estimated value: $30. Minimum bid: $10.
Cyndy Fine of Genius Loci has donated an hour of landscape design consultion. Estimated value: $120. Minimum bid: $40.
The Community Feed Store has donated a copper “sip and feed” bird feeder. Estimated value: $55. Minimum bid: $20.
Jim Gould has donated an hour of plumbing work. Estimated value: $80. Minimum bid: $25.
Diane Shamas has donated a FISKARS StaySharp 18” reel push mower. Estimated value: $100. Minimum bid: $25.
Patty Whalen and Fletcher Proctor have donated a 19th-century PUCK cartoon in a beautiful frame. Estimated value: $75. Minimum bid: $20.
Karen Blanchard has donated a GRACO Jogging Stroller. Estimated value: $75. Minimum bid: $25.
Laura and Betsy Williams have donated two 1,000-piece puzzles: “Bees & Honey” and “Evening Harvest.” Estimated value: $25 each. Minimum bid: $5 each.
The Hungry Diner in Walpole, NH has donated a $50 gift certificate. Minimum bid: $20.
Diane Shamas has donated a SARIS “Bones” 3-Bike car bike rack. Estimated value: $125. Minimum bid: $25.
Laura and Betsy Williams have donated new rattles and teething rings. Estimated value: $10. Minimum bid: $5.
The Sandglass Theater has donated two (2) tickets to one of the shows in the Sunshine Series in February. Estimated value: $25. Minimum bid: $10.
Patty Whalen and Fletcher Proctor have donated a vintage ash-splint basket baby bassinet with stand, ca. 1940, 30″ by 30″. Estimated value: $75. Minimum bid: $25
Allison Deen has donated a carved wooden blue heron by local artist Philip Holmes Morgan, about 9.5″ tall.. Estimated value: $40. Minimum bid: $15.
Ray Huessy offers to write a sonnet or other poem or hymn of similar length to order (acrostic poems available on request). Estimated value: $75. Minimum bid: $20.
Patty Whalen and Fletcher Proctor have donated a caned-seat rocking chair, 38″ h x 19″ w.
Diane Shamas has donated a set of Dutch tile decorative kitchen items from her parents’ collection: a bread board (marked “brood,” about 12″), rolling pin (about 14″), and ladle (about 12″). Estimated value: $80. Minimum bid: $20.
Tom Griffith has donated three feed bags of split, dried kindling, to be bid on separately. Estimated value: $35 each. Minimum bid: $10 each.
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Rick Cowan has donated a Zero Gravity lounge chair. Estimated value: $40. Minimum bid: $10.
Patty Whalen and Fletcher Proctor have donated a framed Victorian lithograph. Estimated value: $100. Minimum bid: $25.
Putney Mountain Winery and Spirits has donated a $25 gift certificate. Minimum bid: $10.
Charlotte Gifford has donated a 100% wool hat, hand-knit to the winning bidder’s order, in the color and design of your choice. Estimated value: $40. Minimum bid: $15.
Allison Deen has donated a ceramic kingfisher figurine by Goebel of West Germany, about 4.5″ tall.. Estimated value: $30. Minimum bid: $10.
Tom “the Rocket Guy” Griffith will bring his bottle rocket regalia to your child’s birthday party or other celebration and will engage your troops in rocket-making and -launching for up to two hours, with a bit of science thrown in. You provide the kids (ages 7 to 12-ish, maximum of 6) and a large field (the rockets can come down with a vengeance) and Tom provides the rest, though help with supervision is much appreciated. Estimated value: $150. Minimum bid: $50.
Patty Whalen and Fletcher Proctor have donated a framed Kewpieville magazine print. Estimated value: $p0. Minimum bid: $15.
The Flatiron Cooperative has donated a $25 gift certificate. Minimum bid: $10.
Rick Cowan has donated a Homedics Shiatsu Massager. Estimated value: $50. Minimum bid: $20.
Brandywine Glass has donated a pink glass heart paperweight. Estimated value: $90. Minimum bid: $30.
Patty Whalen and Fletcher Proctor have donated a framed circus poster lithograph. Estimated value: $50. Minimum bid: $15.
Ray Huessy has donated a Japanese woodblock prints of a Kabuki actor, bought in Tokyo (and framed by Boutilier’s in Burlington) in 1964, about 15″ x 20″. Estimated value: $50. Minimum bid: $15.
Lee Crocker and David Mulholland have donated a gallon of organic maple syrup from Sidelands Sugarbush. Estimated value: $75. Minimum bid: $25.
Carol Sevick has donated a king-sized Bates cotton blanket. Estimated value: $145. Minimum bid: $50.
Rick Cowan has donated a solid maple kitchen island cart. Estimated value: $150. Minimum bid: $40.
Adrienne Major has donated a leather briefcase. Estimated value: $195. Minimum bid: $50.
Rachael Shaw has donated a pair of recycled sweater mittens. Estimated value: $75. Minimum bid $25.
Allison Deen has donated “Arctic Wings,” a first edition of a book of photographs of arctic birds, signed by the author. Estimated value: $150. Minimum bid $35.
Perfect Creations has donated a $35 gift certificate (a free haircut) at the salon. Minimum bid: $10.
Ray Huessy has donated two six-packs of red wine–each is a selection of tried-and-true and new and intriguing wines. Estimated value: $85 each. Minimum bid: $30 each.
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Vermont Shepherd has donated a Small Spring Cheese Sampler. Estimated value: $70. Minimum bid: $25.
Gordon Hayward has donated a vintage hand-knit Aran sweater made for him in 1977 when he and Mary were staying on Inishmore, still in pristine condition. They rented a cottage from Granny Hernon, who knitted the sweater, and it comes with a copy of the journal Gordon kept on Inishmore, in which Granny Hernon plays a big part. Estimated value: $250. Minimum bid: $75.
Laura and Betsy Williams have donated a bongo board (estimated value: $50, minimum bid: $15), a Kenmore Sewing machine (estimated value: $75, minimum bid: $25), and a standard double sized LLBean feather-bed topper (estimated value: $75, minimum bid: $25).
Liz Deniord has donated two jewelry boxes with tile tops and interior mirrors (estimated value: $50, minimum bid: $15), a ceramic box (estimated value: $50, minimum bid: $15), a ceramic menorah (estimated value: $90, minimum bid: $30), and a ceramic 3-candle candelabra (estimated value: $75, minimum bid: $25).
Cheryl Charles and her family have donated a leather picnic backpack (Legacy by Picnic Time). Ready for a romantic picnic in the woods, by the lake, or under the stars? it’s ready for wine, cheese, other delectable foods and more, complete with wine opener, cutting board, knife, flatware, plastic wine glasses and plates, with plenty of storage space and a place for the wine bottle on the side. Never used! Estimated value: $95. Minimum bid: $30.
Karen Blanchard has donated an electric George Foreman grill in perfect working order, and rarely used. (It retails new on Amazon for $99). Estimated value: $75. Minimum bid: $25.
Against the Grain in Brattleboro has donated two $25 gift certificates. Minimum bid, $10 each.
Harlow’s Farmstand has donated a $25 gift certificate. Minimum bid: $10.
Rod’s Towing and Repair has donated a $50 gift certificate for gas only. Minimum bid: $15.
Green Mountain Spinnery has donated a crocheted hat kit including everthing you need to make a Stash Buster hat. Esitmated value: $50. Minimum bid $15.
Michael J. Daley has donated a Massage by Michael. Bring your shoulders, spine, and feet and RELAX Estimated value: $80. Minimum bid: $25.
Jeanne Bennett has donated a pair of sterling silver hoop earrings. Estimated value: $75. Minimum bid: $25.
Karen Blanchard has donated a framed photograph of a statue of the Buddha in a garden (estimated value: $X; minimum bid: X) and a STIHL KM 90R weed whacker, used but in good working order (estimated value: $200. Minimum bid: $65). The weed-whacker comes with an unused rototiller attachment, a face screen with sound protectors, and an unopened set of eye protector glasses. Still sold new now for $390.
Westminster Animal Hospital has donated two tick collars, one for a dog, one for a cat. Estimated value: $80 each. Minimum bid: $25 each.
Vermont Shepherd Cheese has donated a cheese sampler. The small cheese sampler includes 1/2-pound wedge of the Verano 100% raw sheep milk cheese, 1/2-pound wedge of the Invierno raw cow and sheep milk aged cheese, a 11.5oz jar of our sheep’s milk fromage blanc marinated in farm-grown garlic, and thyme, peppercorns, and extra virgin olive oil, and a 9oz Sidehill Farm fruit preserve (cherry, fig, or quince).
Shana Frank has donated a video course on “The Art of Teaching: Best Practices from a Master Educator” on 4 DVDs, from Patrick N. Allitt, Professor at Emory University, with a 86-page printed course guidebook. Estimated value: $60. Minimum bid: $20.
Sharon Easterling and Ken Fitch have donated a wrought-iron chandelier (Estimated value: $150; minimum bid: $35) and a Pacific Energy Anderlea T5 woodstove (Estimated value: $550; minimum bid: $200), as well as a framed poster for Yosemite National Park (estimated value: $25; minimum bid: $10).
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An anonymous donor has donated two items from Libby Mills’s estate, both from the early 19th-century: a child’s chest of drawers with four large and three smaller drawers (Estimated value: $250; minimum bid $80) and a European porcelain teapot that comes with a card showing who it used to belong to (Estimated value: $100; minimum bid $35).
David Mulholland and Lee Crocker have donated three framed photos of Brattleboro from the late 1800’s (Estimated value between $100 and $150; minimum bids between $35 and $45).
Ian Conway of Chimney Doctor has donated a chimney flue or dryer vent) cleaning. Estimated value: $300. Minimum bid: $100.
Village Square Booksellers in Bellows Falls has donated a $25 gift certificate. Minimum bid: $10.
Achille Agway in Walpole has donated a $25 gift certificate. Minimum bid: $10.
The Saxtons River Village Market has donated a $25 gift certificate. Minimum bid: $10.
Jennifer Latham has donated a cherry-red kid’s RAZOR scooter (Estimated value: $50; minimum bid: $15) and a SUNBEAM Mix-Master (Estimated value: $45; minimum bid: $15).
Local artists Peggy O’Toole and John Ewald have donated a handmade tile landscape, 13″ x 9″. Estimated value: $100; minimum bid: $35.
More items have been coming in since the auction went live, so check the website!