Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Black history, and Photos
Were my eyes deceiving me, I wondered as I glanced at the group of photos lying in the bottom half of a small flat box on the auction table. A nicely dressed and coiffed black woman sitting in a…
A small knot of people had gathered in front of the tiny vendor’s booth at the Columbus Avenue Christmas Market in New York. On the wall facing me were shards of blue and white pottery,…
Posted in history
I never made it to the excavation of the spot on Independence Mall in Philadelphia a couple years ago where the first president had a home back in the 18th century. As a newspaper online editor…
“Have you heard of this artist,” one auction-buyer asked as he walked up to another who was checking out books on an auction table. His friend had never heard the name Stuart M. Egnal before, and neither…
Posted in Dolls, and Performers
He just sat there like a dummy, looking aimlessly off into space, his mouth half-open. He wore a putrid green cotton suit that hung off his skinny frame and a red polka-dot tie that was…
Lying discarded on table after table in the back room of the auction house were piles and piles of books from someone’s library. The auctioneer kept saying that the books and more tables of stuff…
Posted in collectibles, Games, and Toys
The buyer was one of the auction-house’s regulars, so I eased my way over to him, curious about why he bought this old metal monstrosity of a slot machine. “I have three at home,” he…
The two gingerbread men were adorable lying there atop their boxes. And they were not alone, for there were two short rows of these Christmas ornaments. I knew they were Lenox before even checking them.…
Posted in Books
You know how you sometimes buy things for no rhyme or reason? That happened to me recently at one of my favorite auction houses. I was sitting there waiting for some items I actually wanted…
Posted in pottery
I’ve come to love the blue and white colors of Delftware, a pottery that has been made for centuries in Delft, Holland. But I had never seen these earthtone colors before, the ones captured so delicately…
