I fawned over the brooches as soon as I saw them in the glass case at the auction house. I had trudged through tons of old beat-up clocks and dusty Coca Cola memorabilia, and these…
Month: June 2016
When I saw the wooden chest with the shutters, I was a little confused. It didn’t seem to fit into the collection sprawled endlessly against the auction-house walls, on shelves attached to the walls, inside…
The two carved tusks looked like larger versions of two African ivory pieces I had at home. Both bore the features of an African man and woman carved in the side of the ivory. I…