September, 2015 | Auction Finds

Posted in furniture, and Home

I’m used to seeing lamps and tables in unusual shapes and designs. So I shouldn’t have been too surprised to see lamps on an auction-house website whose bases were wild boars. Not too long ago…

September 4, 2015

sherry

A guessing game of sewing items & other neat stuff

Posted in Sewing

Do you know what these are, I asked the auction-house assistant hoping that he could come closer to a guess than me about the wooden pointy items. They were cylindrical, rounded at the waist, their…

September 2, 2015

sherry

1930s communist pamphlet on blacks in a ‘Soviet America’

Posted in Books, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents

The small pamphlet with the black and white cover bore the title “The Negroes in a Soviet America.” On the cover was a young African American man, smiling broadly and happily as he undoubtedly envisioned…

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