It had a wide middle reminiscent of a pot-bellied stove, and its function was not far removed from that of its lookalike. This tin metal item with the iron feet and gold leaf design was…
Category: Guess what it is
Someone at the auction house had placed the red “thing” up high, resting on top of a stool on top of another piece of furniture. I wasn’t sure what it was, but it looked like something…
The metal and wood hangers were the first to catch my eye. One was quite beautiful in its construction – a curved piece of wood attached to thin metal that reminded me of two oversized…
They are ——-, I overhead the man say to the woman as they stood just outside the doorway to the room where I was previewing items on a table at the auction house. I was familiar…
The wooden oak drum seemed to be a heavy burden for the auction-house table on which it sat. It was laden with cast-iron metal from top to bottom that surprisingly gave it a lovely patina…
I had just handed the auction-house assistant an item I had been examining when I spied the two wooden blocks embracing each other. It was hard to tell what they were, but they seemed to…
When I first laid my eyes on the saw, I immediately figured it was used on small pieces of wood. It looked like a real one but was half the size of the old hand saws…
The back lot of this particular auction house is usually loaded with toys, chairs, dolls, school desks and other items for little tots. So when I saw the yellow tractor, I figured it was just…
I had to look up to see the red suitcase atop some furniture at the auction house. There was nothing unusual about the luggage itself, just the form that someone had given it. It was…
The rectangular box sitting atop a table at the auction house bore a picture of two men with guitars serenading two dark-haired women. The inscription on the picture was in a language I did not understand.…