Bicycles come up pretty often at auction, but I usually ignore them because if I buy one, it’ll go the same route as an exercise bike or treadmill at my place. It will end up…
Month: November 2011
Bobblehead cigar-smoking black male ashtray
Posted in collectibles, Crafts, and Figurines
I don’t know why I bought the metal figure of a black male with a cigar in his mouth, one hand in his pocket and the other on his hip. I’m not usually drawn to Black…
The bottle was beautifully shaped – a seated island man, the yellow coloring of his hat and shirt contrasting against his coffee-brown body. I wasn’t sure what he was selling as he sat there on a…
The huge black grand piano sat there like a good-looking man ensnaring me with a glance. My own eyes landed on it as soon as I walked into the furniture room at the auction house.…
Wine press? Looks like a giant nutcracker to me
Posted in collectibles, and Unusual
As I was making my preview rounds at an auction house, I came across a big wooden basket straddling a ledge on a wooden stand, a metal plunger in its center. It looked like a giant nutcracker. I…
As soon as I saw the wooden box of bones at the auction house, I knew I had to pull it out to take a closer look. On top was what looked like a tibia…
The image appeared only for a fleeting moment. I was concentrating so hard on the photos that flashed on the screen in the Tuskegee Airmen documentary that I had almost missed it. But there he was…
African American natural hair as art
Posted in African American women, Art, and Hair
Sonya Clark is a fiber artist who uses her own hair as her medium. She weaves human hair – black women’s natural hair – onto canvases, the backs of chairs, into jewelry and even mixing it…
Book with photos of Booker T. Washington’s legacy
Posted in Black history, and Books
The book was half-buried under others in a box at the auction house. I had almost missed it, with its black and faded gold lettering against a very dark background – a senseless combination it…
The jukebox was like a grand old maestro curling its forefinger in a come-hither motion for me to check it out there on a landing outside the auction house. It was a big metal beast,…