Three rare, turn-of-the-century motor vehicles, a 1907 REO Model A five-passenger touring car, an 1899 Stanley Stanhope No. 1 Locomobile and a prototype of the 1911 Model H REO pickup truck, sped away for a combined $120,950 in Miller & Miller Auctions online-only Petroliana and Advertising Auction held on Sept. 10 in Ontario, Canada. All figures quoted are in Canadian dollars and include an 18-percent buyers premium. The 1899 Stanley Stanhope Model No. 1 Locomobile, made by the Locomobile Company of America, was the auctions top lot, selling for $44,250. It 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 1907 REO Model A five-passenger touring car sold within estimate for $41,300. This early and unusual vehicle was the brainchild of Ransom E. Olds (creator of the curved dash Oldsmobile). It was restored in 2006. For years the car was on proud display at Richard Bennetts Horseless Carriage Museum in Fenelon Falls, Ontario. All three top lots came out of the museum. 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, had been fully restored and featured signage for the merchant Ballantine & Taby ($35,400). 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. For decades Richard Bennett added unusual items to his museum, said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd. Buyers clamored to own what he collected. It was an exciting sale. Brass-era vehicles added the wow factor to an auction that was packed with automobilia, steam engines, advertising and music machines. All categories were received with enthusiasm. While categories in mature markets such as brass-era automobiles performed slightly beneath what we expected, gas/oil and soda advertising performed well beyond our estimates. His vehicles in the auction helped boost the sales overall gross to $553,951, added Miller The 408-lot auction included petroliana (gas station collectibles), advertising signs, general store, steam, railroad, automobilia, music machines and bicycles. Around 500 people registered to bid, using the Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd. website (www.MillerandMillerAuctions.com) and LiveAuctioneers.com, and 99 percent of lots sold. A 1940s Canadian White Rose Gasoline double-sided porcelain sign with Slate Boy graphic, four feet in diameter and marked The W. F. Vilas Co. Ltd. Cowansville P.Q. on the lower edge, blew past its $20,000 high estimate to finish at $24,780, while a White Rose Service Station three-piece sign from 1947, each piece single-sided porcelain, 36 inches in diameter with the banners measuring 15.5-by-94.5 inches, marked P&M 47 lower left, hit $14,160. A Canadian Ford V8 dealer double-sided porcelain die-cut sign from the 1930s, 35.25-by-28 inches, boasting a graphic of Henry Fords revolutionary V8 engine, changed hands for $23,600. Also, a 1940s Canadian Supertest Gasoline double-sided porcelain sign, four feet in diameter, showing the iconic Supertest maple leaf logo, exhibited some minor porcelain loss around the frame mounting holes but still brought $20,060. A rare Canadian Red Indian Marathon Gasoline pump globe, 16.5-by-16.5 inches, with the graphics fired to the exterior surface of the globe, went to a determined bidder for $17,700, while a Canadian Red Indian Cyclo Gasoline pump globe, same dimensions (Cyclo Gas / No-Knock Motor Fuel), realized $8,850. Both of these 1920s-era, one-piece baked glass gas pump globes were discovered in Waterloo, Ontario, and were purportedly never installed on pumps. A Canadian Red Indian Gasoline single-sided porcelain dealer sign from the 1930s, five feet in diameter, marked The W. F. Vilas Co. Ltd. Cowansville P. Q. on the lower edge, with just a few scattered patches of porcelain loss, fetched $11,800. Also, a Canadian White Rose Gasoline double-sided porcelain dealer sign from the 1940s, a stout 48 inches in diameter, with the porcelain featuring exceptional gloss but also some stress hairlines, rose to $10,620. A ca. 1890 Paillard Grand Orchestral Cylinder Swiss music box, in excellent cosmetic and working condition, able to play 10 tunes with its organ, drum, castanet and bells, in a rosewood and burled wood case on a matching stand, played a sweet tune for $9,440. Also, an English 53-inch high-wheel bicycle from the 1880s, made from painted tubular construction with rubber wheels, decaled Simpsons Bicycle Shop Cycles and Sporting Goods, Ont., garnered $8,260. A single-sided tin Coca-Cola turtle-back sign from the 1920s, also American, embossed and still with the original hanging chain, went for $7,080. The sign was depicted in Alan Petrettis book, Coca-Cola Collectibles, on page 203. For more information, email info@millerandmillerauctions.com or visit www.millerandmillerauctions.com.