In mills and in homes the warmth and beauty of the coverlet was created by long ago weavers such as Bysel-Rottman-Troyer. The mills in Troyer Hollow and the Wise Mill in eastern Holmes County have left a legacy and treasure of beauty that is much desired by today’s collectors.

Recent auction prices: oil lamp, $7; old horse collar, $8; small wood coffee grinder, $15; sack cart, $12; minnow bucket, $3; brass urn, $8; wood wine keg, $42; nice wood barrel churn, $65; wood butter bowl, $10; P.R.R. lantern, $25; battery display rack, $100; nice grapefruit press, $100; wood shutters, $17; humpback trunk, $47; Sinclair gas can, $7.50; wood chicken coop, $25; bike light, $35; shaft sleigh bells, $25; 1915 Pennsylvania porcelain license plate, $17.50; yarn winder, $20; iron apple picker, $25.

Happy hunting, Brooks.