Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources to help them determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Author: sherry
Most of the carved heads were displayed so high atop furniture that I had to stand back to get a good look at them. I had searched for them specifically at the auction house because…
A forlorn drawing that no one wanted
Posted in Art
No one would take Linda home. I couldn’t blame them because she looked like one miserable person, without a tinge of hope. Her face was drawn, her stare vacant. So when her portrait came up for…
Readers say thanks for digging up history
Posted in Dolls, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Glassware, and history
Every now and then, I stumble upon an item at auction that stumps me. What’s its history, I wonder. How was it used? If the item is a painting or a print, I always want…
“I hate the stuff,” I overheard the man say to his friend. I was across a table from them in a large open-air shelter in the side yard of the auction house. We were all…
Old wedding dresses – either still in their whiteness or in an aged yellow – seem to turn up pretty often at auction. The bride has passed on, leaving behind that symbol of one of…
The little girl in the red dress was the first image that snared me as my eyes wandered among the artwork on the auction house wall. Her with the brown face, standing on a sidewalk in the…
It’s a cake breaker
Posted in Uncategorized
It “breaks” cakes into even slices, leaving the topping intact and eliminating those pesky crumbs. It was designed especially for soft cakes, such as angel food or sponge cakes. The cake breaker was first made…
The chair sat there alone, like the lucky prize in some strange contest. It was draped in the fur of some animal I did not recognize, its arms and legs the horn of the same…
I was about to walk right past the two rusted fire hydrants, but stopped. I stood there looking at them, wondering: How exactly do you re-use old fire hydrants? No quick answer popped into my head,…