Home improvement types could be in for a bonanza of items this month as inventory of the former Mississippi Hardware, 1622 Washington St. will be auctioned. 

Stock includes bolts, nuts, tools and everything in between left inside the business when it closed in October 2013 after 75 years in Vicksburg. Everything will be sold for the best bids at 10 a.m. Jan. 24.

“It’s all kinds of tools, nuts, paint, sandpaper, all kinds of store fixtures and shelving,” said auction co-organizer Richard Crowe. “It’s everything you’d want to see in a hardware store. No offer will be turned down.”

Triple M Sales Co. is conducting the auction. Auctioneers are Crowe, Tony McDaniel and Tommy McDonald, according to a faxed release. The public may come by the old store during normal business hours on Jan. 22 and Jan. 23 and look at the items to be offered for sale, it said.

Known as an outlet for hard-to-find tools such as wrench sockets, drill bits, and off-size nails, the store was in its third location since its establishment in 1935. The owners, descendants of founder Jinx Peterson, held a going-out-of-business sale in the weeks before it closed.

The building itself, which isn’t part of the auction, once housed another since departed Vicksburg hardware outlet, O’Neill McNamara, and M. Fine and Sons Mfg. garment factory. It’s still owned by Mississippi Hardware Co., according to property records.

January’s auction will be the third such public sale at a hardware outlet in less than six months. Twice in August, merchandise at Gore’s Hardware Co. on Openwood Street was put out for bids. Gore’s had closed earlier in the year. In April 2013, an auction a few blocks away from the hardware store, at the former Grand Station Casino, featured the boat being sold for $10,000 and smaller items, such as bar stools, banquet chairs and other furnishings, going for as little as $5 apiece.