Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of the items that they own. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but…
Category: Holidays
I had arrived at the auction a few minutes late and didn’t get a chance to make my walk-through to see what was there. I craned my neck over the tables behind the auctioneer, who…
I used to dutifully go out and find the right Christmas tree each holiday season. I’d buy it from a seller who’d set up rows of trees with full thick branches in the same parking lot…
Someone tore the mummy in half. Early on at the auction house, it had stood erect, wrapped in tattered green fabric with a hat on its head. Later, I saw it severed at the waist, its torso…