Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Military, and Photos
I was reading a story in my local newspaper this morning about a soldier’s experiences in World War II. It had been written by a columnist whose family had sent him correspondence that this soldier-cousin had…
Posted in Books
An unfinished novel by Mark Twain? That’s what the front cover of the old Life magazine blared when I discovered it beneath some papers on a tray at auction this week. There was the writer…
Posted in Books
It was a good day of ephemera at one of my favorite auction houses this week. Not a lot of it, but enough to enough to get me excited. The house had it grouped together in at least…
Posted in Music
“Someone should be playing Christmas music,” I said to my auction buddy Janet during an indoor flea market visit last weekend. The place was cold concrete floors and walls, a few skylights and windows, and…
Posted in Lighting
I was casing the joint, meticulously combing the tables at one of my favorite auction houses for the unfamiliar. Nothing was calling out to me to come over, pick it up, become overwhelmed with its…
The unending row of tables of items on the auction house’s website told the story. Someone had overdone it in their purchase of Asian-themed items. From what I saw, I knew that this auction would last…
Posted in Purses
I was browsing through the “good-stuff” in the glass cases at an auction house this week when I spotted two small pewter-like items with high reliefs on the tops. I stopped, curious about what they…
Posted in Gardening
It looked like a farm plow to me. This vintage-looking metal implement sitting there on top of a chest in a back room of one of my favorite auction houses. I was drawn to it because…
Posted in Military
A certain solemnity seemed to have settled over the military memorabilia laid out on the auction table. These were once some man’s treasures – photos and a sailor’s log from his travels, his garrison caps,…
