Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Black history, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
In its heyday, Jet magazine was black folks’ ticket to their own world. It confounded the notion that they were lazy, had little to say that anyone cared about, and had never made history of any worth. In…
Posted in pottery
From a distance there at the auction house, the vintage stoneware washbasin in the cobalt blue floral design looked to be Flow Blue. It was on a shelf against a back wall with the “slightly better”…
Posted in camera
“Did you see the camcorder, still new in the box?” my auction buddy Janet asked me as we awaited the start of the auction at this new place we were checking out this week. I had seen…
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Military, and Photos
I was reading a story in my local newspaper this morning about a soldier’s experiences in World War II. It had been written by a columnist whose family had sent him correspondence that this soldier-cousin had…
Posted in Books
An unfinished novel by Mark Twain? That’s what the front cover of the old Life magazine blared when I discovered it beneath some papers on a tray at auction this week. There was the writer…
Posted in Books
It was a good day of ephemera at one of my favorite auction houses this week. Not a lot of it, but enough to enough to get me excited. The house had it grouped together in at least…
Posted in Music
“Someone should be playing Christmas music,” I said to my auction buddy Janet during an indoor flea market visit last weekend. The place was cold concrete floors and walls, a few skylights and windows, and…
Posted in Lighting
I was casing the joint, meticulously combing the tables at one of my favorite auction houses for the unfamiliar. Nothing was calling out to me to come over, pick it up, become overwhelmed with its…
The unending row of tables of items on the auction house’s website told the story. Someone had overdone it in their purchase of Asian-themed items. From what I saw, I knew that this auction would last…
Posted in Purses
I was browsing through the “good-stuff” in the glass cases at an auction house this week when I spotted two small pewter-like items with high reliefs on the tops. I stopped, curious about what they…
