Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Art, collectibles, and Crafts
Recently, I was talking to the sister of a regular auction-goer who had tagged along with him to the biweekly auction. She had joined him at other auctions, but she had never bought anything. This time,…
I was visiting New York last weekend with a friend’s daughter, and we were just enjoying ourselves in Soho when she mentioned the word Singer. “Where?” I asked. She pointed to the building we were…
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At auction this week, I got a box lot with two postcards. One was a linen postcard, unused, celebrating the state of Virginia. The images included a train traveling through a countryside and two covered…
Posted in Personal items
Guy things. That’s the way one of my auction friends describes tools and other items that men tend to buy. In fact, at auction this week, I heard one guy excitedly tell another about a…
Posted in Clothing
I?ve never been a fur coat kind of woman. Stoles and long mink coats never really appealed to me, and I never understood the attraction. Some years ago when I was a newspaper recruiter, I…
Posted in collectibles, and history
My auction buddy Janet sent me one of those chain emails that urges you to pass it on to other people. She apologized, noting that she doesn’t usually forward these but she couldn’t resist because…
Posted in collectibles, and Personal items
I watched the TV show “Mad Men” for the first time last night. The mother of a friend loves the show, and I’d been meaning to check it out. I found the episode plodding and…
A couple years ago, on the last day of a trip to a garlic festival with friends in upstate New York, we stopped at a Goodwill (or maybe it was a Salvation Army) to see…
Posted in Art
The terracotta figurine was decidedly a black woman. Full lips, wide nose, fashionable tip of the head. I spotted her almost hidden among some larger items on the auction table recently. The skirt of her…
Posted in Black history, civil rights movement, and Toys
For some reason I can’t figure, I love model trains. So, when I saw tables of them at auction a week ago – Lionels, Tyco and other brands in original boxes, and some with no…
