When I first saw the wrought iron piece, I wasn’t sure what it was or how it was used. It was decorative with a daisy flower displayed on the top, but it looked medieval. It…
Author: sherry
Weather-beaten outhouse with crescent-moon cutout
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, Home, and Unusual
The outhouse was the first thing I spotted when I turned the corner on the ramp overlooking the back lot at the auction house. There it stood without leaning, with its gray weather-beaten boards and…
The transcendent beauty of Chinese snuff bottles
Posted in Art, bottles, and collectibles
The bottles were breathtaking. The colors looked as if they’d just been lifted from a rainbow and the carvings from a work of nature. They were Chinese snuff bottles, and I was looking through more…
I bought a cute little Singer child-size sewing machine at auction this week. I was hoping that I’d be the only sewing enthusiast in the room to keep the price low. There was at least…
For most of the auction I could only see the back of Faith Ringgold’s head. She was wearing a fabric cap, burgundy on top with a wide black band. At one point, she turned her…
I couldn’t wait to buy the 45 for Jr. Walker & the All-Stars’ new record. I don’t recall where I had heard it, probably on the radio, but I knew that it was a record…
When I saw the little black item with the small square on top, I instantly shot a photo of it. In this particular form, the item was a far cry from its descendants of today.…
Looking along the row of furniture on the back lot of an auction house recently, I was a bit confused about whether it was the end of summer or the beginning of spring. Fall will…
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…
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…