Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Animals, collectibles, and Figurines
That will sell well, I overheard a woman say to her male companion. My back was turned to them so I wasn’t sure what she was talking about. I turned slightly to see this magnificent…
Posted in Art
I first came upon a Magiscope sculpture about five years ago when an auction house was selling five small tabletop pieces. They were new and different and beautiful with their irregular metal stands and round…
Posted in Black history, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Politics
From time to time, I get questions from readers about the items they own. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do some preliminary research to get them started. So, the results…
I was on my way out of the auction house, having seen nothing I wanted to buy, when I decided to stop and browse at three tables near the door. The last table held flat…
Posted in Children, collectibles, Home, Trinket box, and Uncategorized
How cute, I thought when I saw the small porcelain dresser set on a tray inside a glass case at the auction house. There was nothing fancy about it: It was gilt-trimmed like many of…
I was surveying the items on the top shelf of the glass case at the auction house, looking for something of interest when out of the corner of my eye I saw it. The “it”…
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…
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…
