Fridays at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Month: January 2014
Don’t ride the (real) white horse
Posted in Music
You couldn’t miss the big white horse. Someone had leaned it against a wooden beam holding up the roof of an open shelter on the back lot of the auction house. It was looking over…
Wheeled fire extinguisher from 1900s
Posted in collectibles, and Equipment
I knew the old dirty cart with the crumbling hose and metal wheels was a piece of early fire equipment. Its red color defined it as something belonging to those who battled blazes a long time…
Readers ask about souvenir spoons & bug sprayer
Posted in collectibles, and Home
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
The Native American figures were exceptionally carved. The maker had given them some dignity in wood, surely not matching the ways they were perceived in the era the carvings were made. They were symbols for a…
A clothesline for hanging art, not sheets
Posted in Art
The air was still as water in the room at the auction house, but the garments on the clothesline in the painting were flapping in the wind. I could feel the breeze flowing through them…
Readers ask about Warrington Colescott etching & numbers book
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
A trio of mermaids – two small, one medium – were the first ones I saw. They were sitting on the edge of the second level of a table at the auction house, two with their…
The picture was on a lower shelf in a locked glass case at the antiques mall. There was no light in the case so the image itself was in the shadows and not very distinguishable.…
Fridays at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…