Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in collectibles, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
The two men were on me before I could take a good look at the two fountain pens I had just bought on-site at an estate auction. Their eyes shone eagerly, happy perhaps that they’d…
I was fishing through a box lot of small items from auction when I saw six strange-looking cards whose fronts were make-believe wooden planks. The images looked like caricatures and the wording was oversized. The cards were…
So you bought it, the auction house assistant noted – not asked – as he eyed the solid wood African figure I had straddled across a shopping cart near the door of the auction house.…
Posted in Black history, Music, Performers, and Plays
A couple years ago, I picked up a studio photo of Louis Armstrong with his first band the Hot Five from the 1920s. Armstrong was at the piano and seemed to be talking to the…
