Young Auctioneer helping out with The Super Auction 3.

Rachel Gingell will be part of The Super Auction 3. Rachel is a leader in the next generation of professional auctioneers. The founder of She Sold It, an auction business based in Lapeer, Michigan, Rachel specializes in benefit and estate auctions. After graduating from Missouri Auction School and the Boot Camp for Benefit Auctioneers, Rachel has gone on to pursue a business degree and the Benefit Auction Specialist Designation. As a contract auctioneer, Rachel brings both the wisdom of experience and fresh ideas to the auction block. Rachel is an active member of both the Michigan State Auctioneers Association and National Auctioneers Association.

She Sold It strives to help non-profit organizations raise more money with ease through benefit auction fundraisers. The entertaining and motivational auctioneers are sure to bring success to non-profit organizations. For more information, log onto http://www.she-sold-it.com/.

“One of the goals of The Super Auction is to provide a platform for fellowship and more importantly auction experience for new auctioneers,” stated Peter Gehres, Super Auction assistant manager. “She is excited about the auction business and we are excited to have her part of this year's event.”

Peter Gehres wins 2010 Michigan Auctioneer Champion

Peter Gehres (assistant manager for The Super Auction) was named the 2010 Michigan Auctioneer Champion (MAC) on January 27, 2010 at the Michigan State Auctioneers Association Winter Convention in Kalamazoo. A field of twenty-two auctioneers entered from three states. Six of the twenty-two contestants made the finals and after a successful Fun Auction, that raised thousands, the Auctioneer and Ringman Champions were announced. The judges for the 2010 MAC included Leroy Van Dyke (pictured), B. Mark Rogers, John Hamilton, Ed King and Joyce Braun. This was the fourth MAC Peter had entered and the ninth auctioneer calling contest entered since 2006. Peter won the 2006 Ohio Junior Bid Calling contest in January 2006.

The Super Auction 3 set for February 27, 2010

Ann Arbor, MI – Building on the success of the 2009 Super Auctions, the first Super Auction of 2010 will be held on February 27, 2010 at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, 5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ten auction companies and over 15 auctioneers from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Missouri will gather together for an exposition of American Auctioneering. The event starts promptly at 10:00 AM EST and there will be three auction rings running for the entire auction. The auction will last approximately five hours with over 1400 lots up for bid.

Collections from across the Midwest and South are again scheduled to cross the block. Selections of antiques, lighting, sport cards, farm toys, stamps, pottery, glass, coins, collectibles, and firearms will be available. Full details and auction inventories are posted now at thesuperauction.net and will be continuously updated as the event nears. Buyers and auction enthusiasts are able to follow the process of The Super Auction on its blog at thesuperauction.blogspot.com/

“The two Super Auctions in 2009 demonstrated the fun and excitement that occurs when you have a dozen auctioneers in one place all doing what they do best,” said David Helmer, The Super Auction manager. “We are excited that as a kick off for this year we will welcome in National Auctioneers Association Board of Director Robert Mayo from Kansas City Missouri. Robert is a good friend and champion bid caller and will bring his style and skill to the event.”

“The Super Auction will now be a regular event that the auction community can depend on as a consistent venue to buy and sell,” noted Peter Gehres, The Super Auction assistant manager. “The first two Super Auctions saw bidders from ten states and we expect that to increase that in 2010. All the auctioneers involved are currently accepting quality consignments for their sessions in February and for the future.”

The Super Auction Participating Auctioneers

Michigan

American Eagle Auction & Appraisal Company – American Eagle Auction & Appraisal Company, LLC is a full-time Livonia, Michigan based auction firm that specializes in estate liquidation auctions, commercial liquidations, sporting & collectible and benefit auctions.
MichiganAuctionCompany.com, productionline@msn.com, (248) 473-1547

Braun and Helmer Auction Service, Inc. – Braun and Helmer Auction Service Inc. is a full service auction company established in 1971. They conduct approximately 100 auctions annually that include real estate, estate, farm, personal property, specialty, and benefit auctions.
braunandhelmer.com, dghelmer@verizon.net, (734) 368-1733

Dennis Beals Auctioneering Service – A family business based on integrity, honesty and professionalism; established in 1997 and deals primarily with estate liquidations.
dennisbealsauction.com, dbeals2974@yahoo.com, (517) 819-0071

Schmidt’s Antiques – Schmidt's Antiques Inc. is a fifth generation firm founded in 1911. They are auctioneers and appraisers of fine antiques. "Quality that will last a lifetime................Again"
schmidtsantiques.com, schmidtsantiques@aol.com, (734) 434-2660

Vander Kolk's Golden Gavel Auction Service – Golden Gavel Auction Service is a full service auction company serving all of Michigan since 1974.
vkauctions.com, scott@vkauctions.com, (616) 437-1047

Ohio

Belhorn Auction Services, LLC – Central Ohio’s leading provider of cataloged and specialty auctions. Specialist in American Art Pottery.
belhorn.com, auctions@belhorn.com, (614) 921-9441

Montrie Auction & Estate Service, LLC – A full service and family owned auction company that serves Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan with a full array of real estate and auction services.
toledoauctioneer.com, info@toledoauctioneer.com, (419) 824-5444

Indiana

Kraft Auction Service – Kraft Auction Service is a full service auction company specializing in real estate and personal property auctions as well as benefit-charity events.
kraftauctions.com, kraftauctioninfo@aol.com, (219) 973-9240

Missouri

Mayo Auction & Realty - Robert Mayo is a first generation auctioneer and founder of Mayo Auction & Realty, a family owned auction firm located in Kansas City Missouri. Robert serves as a Director for The National Auctioneers Association. Robert is an instructor at World Wide College of Auctioneering and is the 2007- 08 Kansas State Champion Auctioneer.
auctionbymayo.com, robert@auctionsbymayo.com, (816) 361-2600

Three Auctioneers headed to the IAC

Three auctioneers from The Super Auction will be competing in the upcoming International Auctioneer Championship (IAC). David Helmer, Jonathan Kraft and Peter Gehres will be joining over 80 auctioneers from across the nation in Overland Park, Kan. at the 60th International Auctioneers Conference and Show to compete for the title of IAC Champion. The male and female winners of this competition are regarded by the auction industry as being one of the best. This is first year for Gehres in the IAC. Both Helmer and Kraft have competed in the contest in previous years.

The IAC competitors are judged on their presentation, chant, voice timbre, body language, and other performance elements of effective auctioneering. Participants are also judged on their answers of interview questions. The finalists will compete at 7 p.m. Friday, July 17, 2009 in front of more than 1,000 of their peers at the Overland Park Convention Center. The two division winners of the IAC will receive a cash prize of $10,000, a trophy, and will represent the National Auctioneers Association as its spokespeople throughout the year.

Auctioneers from The Super Auction to conduct Annual AAPA Auction

The American Art Pottery Association’s 29th annual convention will return to Philadelphia on April 22 – 26, 2009. The event’s success last year prompted a repeat visit, and 2009 will feature entirely new tours, seminars, and educational exhibits, many of which highlight the Arts and Crafts movement and its pottery. The convention will again be headquartered at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, located near I-95 and Route 1.

The convention will include an art pottery auction, two-day pottery show and sale, and author’s book signing event. The auction, featuring several hundred lots of vintage and contemporary art pottery, will be held Friday, April 24th at 5:00 PM at the Radisson Hotel Philadelphia Northeast located at 2400 Old Lincoln Highway, Trevose, Pennsylvania. The auction will be conducted by Greg Belhorn and Peter Gehres of Belhorn Auction Services, LLC, of Columbus, Ohio. The auction preview, reception, and book signing event will begin at 3:30 PM. Greg Belhorn is also Secretary of the AAPA.

The convention will feature a keynote presentation at the annual reception and banquet on the evening of April 22nd will be given by Dr. Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University and noted author on American ceramics and glass. His topic will be “Arts and Crafts Pottery: What’s In A Name?”

The three seminars feature an impressive roster of speakers.

Suzanne Perrault, tile expert, author, Craftsman Auctions partner, and Antiques Roadshow appraiser, will lead a seminar on collecting, discussing why it doesn't have to be big, expensive, or a superstar to be worthy of collecting. Unusual and noteworthy objects can come in unassuming packages.

Prominent contemporary potters Paul Katrich (Katrich Studios), Scott Draves (Door Pottery), Eric Olsen (Common Ground Pottery), and Chris Powell (Chris Powell Pottery) will share insights about their work and the future of art pottery.

Jonathan Clancy, Ph.D., lecturer in American Fine & Decorative Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and co-author with Dr. Eidelberg of Beauty in Common Things, American Arts and Crafts Pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation will give an overview of the Foundation’s collection, its significant pieces, and research discoveries.

The country’s greatest two-day pottery show and sale, featuring fifty pottery dealers from throughout America, will be held at the headquarters hotel on Saturday, April 25th and Sunday, April 26th. The sale will feature American and European art pottery, along with contemporary pottery. The special exhibit accompanying the show will be American Arts & Crafts pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation collection. The event opens to convention registered members for a private viewing and sale on Saturday from 11:00 AM – 12 Noon. The show and sale will be open to the general public from Noon – 5:00 PM Saturday, and from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Sunday. Admission is $6.00 per person for non-convention registered members and the general public. Activities scheduled as part of the show include hourly prizes and “Booth Chats” on both days, plus a pottery ID table on Sunday.

The 2009 convention will feature two tours. The Wednesday, April 22nd event will be a special behind-the-scenes tour of Craftsman Farms, where the 1911 New Jersey home of turn-of-the-20th century designer Gustav Stickley, now a National Historic Landmark, has become a museum dedicated to the American Arts and Crafts movement.

The Thursday, April 23rd bus tour will include a private viewing of the Gordon collection of Rookwood pottery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. After lunch at the museum, attendees will have free time to explore the museum, featuring separate special exhibits on Cezanne, Matisse, and 20th century Japanese crafts, or walk to nearby Fairmount Park and enjoy landmarks such as the Fairmount Waterworks and Boathouse Row.

Various convention attendance packages and day rates are available. All events are open to the public. For more information, visit www.AAPA.info.

Belhorn & Gehres teach at The Ohio Auction School

Two auctioneers from The Super Auction are teaching this week at The Ohio Auction School. Greg Belhorn is teaching a session on Auctions in the 21st Century and a session on specialty and catalog auctions. Peter Gehres is teaching sessions on auction ethics, bid calling and the auction opening. Both Gehres and Belhorn are graduates of The Ohio Auction School. The Ohio Auction School offers two weeks (over 80 hours) of instruction on the auctioneering, all aspects of the auction business and bid calling. The course fulfills the auction school requirements for a number of states including Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, and Florida among others. Michigan does not currently require attending auction school to become an auctioneer however auction school is a great way, required or not, to establish one’s self in the auction business and learn the auction method of marketing.

For more on The Ohio Auction School visit: http://www.theohioauctionschool.com/

Peter D. Gehres, Auctioneer earns the CAI Designation

Columbus, Ohio - Peter D. Gehres, Auctioneer of Belhorn Auction Services, LLC (and The Super Auction assistant manager) recently completed his third and final year of the highly honored National Auctioneers Association (NAA) Education Institute’s Certified Auctioneers Institute (CAI) designation. He will be officially awarded his designation this July (2009) in Kansas City, Missouri at the 60th annual NAA Conference and Show. The CAI designation is the most respected education program in the country for exclusively for Auctioneers. The CAI program is an executive developmental program offering coursework in management skills, business ethics, finance, marketing, negotiation, and leadership. The nation’s most distinguished and respected leaders in the auction industry as well as university professors provide instruction to CAI students throughout the three year program. For over thirty years auctioneers across the USA, Canada and the world have journeyed at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana to participate in the program.

At the conclusion of this years progam Gehres was awarded the prestigious Pat Massart Leadership Award. The award honors the memory of Auctioneer Pat Massart and her steadfast commitment to the CAI program and the auction industry.

Gehres is a first generation auctioneer who selling both personal property and real estate for clients in Ohio and around the Midwest. Gehres teaches at The Ohio Auction School and is the owner of Auctions on Track an auction education and leadership training company that presents auction education and motivational programs to state auctioneers associations as well as other business and continuing educational classes. The CAI was Gehres’ second designation having been earned the Certified Estate Specialist designation in November of 2006. Gehres is a member of the National, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan State Auctioneers Associations.

Visit Belhorn Auction Services, LLC and Peter D. Gehres, Auctioneer for upcoming auctions.

For more on the NAA and the Education programs please visit the NAA Educational Institute

The Super Auction on Facebook

The first Super Auction is February 28, 2009 at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, Michigan and now has its own page on Facebook! Visit it today and become a fan of this unique auction event.

“I have been on Facebook since I attended Ohio State,” began Peter Gehres, The Super Auction Assistant Manager. “With so many auctioneers and auction enthusiast now on Facebook it seemed like a great tool to help market the auction event.”

Facebook is one of the top ranked social networking sites in American and is growing rapidly thanks to to it ease of use and privacy features. Facebook begun on Ivy League Campuses, then spread to other large college campuses and is now open to the world.

Visit The Super Auction on Facebook at: The Super Auction Page on Facebook

For more on The Super Auction visit http://www.thesuperauction.net/

A piece of OSU/Michigan history at The Super Auction

A unique piece of OSU verse Michigan history will be sold at the inaugural Super Auction on February 28, 2009 at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor, MI. A football program from the 1952 game between OSU and Michigan played in Ohio Stadium is being sold by Auctioneer Jade Montrie of Montrie Auction & Estate Service L.L.C.

"This program and the game it was sold at represents Woody Hayes' first victory over Michigan and came at a critical time in the young coach's career," commented Montrie. "This item is a must have for any college football or Big Ten Football collector."

Woody Hayes was one of the most well known coaches in college football and coached at Ohio State from 1951 - 1978 and along with Bo Schembechler built the OSU/Michigan rivalry into one of the greats in all of sports.

The football program is one of over 1400 items that are scheduled to cross the block at The Super Auction. The paper and ephemera session (one of fifteen in the Auction) represents a speciality area of Montrie's larger auction, estates, and Real Estate business.

"This is great item to have in The Super Auction because it is both interesting and accessible to a number of collectors," added Peter Gehres, Super Auction assistant manager. "Given that we have auctioneers from Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio participating in The Super Auction the subject of football is often discussed and this program brings everything full circle.

For more information on the items in The Super Auction visit http://www.thesuperauction.net/

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