I’m a magnet for old papers. At one auction house, I head straight to the glass cases after I walk through the door, hoping that some fascinating ephemera is waiting for me. I’ve asked to see…
Author: sherry
Reader asks about cartoonist & artist Lester Kern
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
The duct tape was what snagged me. I had seen the worn and lined face of the elderly black man in the black and white photo, gazed upon it momentarily, dropped it back on the…
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
The props that make a doll seem so real
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
When I arrived at the doll sale, I went looking for black dolls, even though none were featured in the photos on the auction house web site. I’ve started looking for black dolls these days as I’m…
Food auction & more at Amish Mud Sale
Posted in collectibles, Culture, and food
From where I stood under a tent in the shade out of the sun, I could see tables of brown cardboard boxes under another tent not too far away. They were different from what I’d…
Readers ask about degrading Occupied Japan salt/pepper shakers
Posted in collectibles, Figurines, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
When black dolls talk, Debbie Garrett listens
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
Debbie Behan Garrett has a special way with dolls. She hears what they have to say, wordlessly, through the feelings they engender inside her. They are dolls that have led lives, passed through hands (or…
As soon as I entered the wide open room at the auction house, I knew I had walked into the world of Butch Lewis. On a far wall in front of me was a huge…
Fridays at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…