#9027 • Edwin T. Holmes Book & Assorted Ephemera

Part of Home & Decor | October 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM (timed auction by Alderfer Auction)

High bid $5.00

Status: Available

Bidding closes Oct 22, 2026 8:09 PM EDT

Edwin T. Holmes 1917 privately published book titled "A Wonderful Fifty Years", this is the company that was involved with a subsidiary that also included ADT, they were charged with being a monopoly over the protective service market and in an antitrust settlement, they forced to split in 1966. Assorted advertising ephemera including (3) vintage Campbell's "The Optimist" booklets, a Purina Cow Chow postcard, a September 1910 Rockford watch calendar card, two Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries philatelic cards, and a Duffie & Wells one-cent postal card.