Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in collectibles, Home, and pottery
When I think of bees, collecting them does not immediately come to mind. I enjoy seeing them at a distance as they fly from flower to flower in my garden sucking up those delicious sweets.…
First, I saw the skull. It was dark heavy metal with screws in its ears. My eyes traveled down the art piece – I assumed that’s what it was since it was mounted on weathered wood…
Posted in Antiques, Appraisals, collectibles, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Native Americans
The appraiser looked a bit tired and seemed indifferent. He watched as I approached the table but he didn’t lean forward in a welcoming gesture. It was closing in on 12 noon, and the “Antiques Roadshow” had been…
Posted in Art, collectibles, Glassware, and Home
I kept the glasses in my kitchen cabinet for several years, thinking that I would someday take them out, serve iced tea or lavender lemonade in them, and marvel at their beauty. They were 1950s glasses with single stalks…
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, and Native Americans
It was a foggy and humid Friday in 1913 when a ship carrying the president of the United States and his party headed to a site in New York Harbor for a momentous ceremony. In another…
Posted in African American women, Auction, Figurines, and Religion
The auction at the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament’s building started at 9 a.m., and I sat through a long tedious online sale and five rooms of an on-site sale. That’s how bad I wanted…
