Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Art, and Comic books
The print was almost hidden, so small and fragile tucked behind large and heavy paintings leveled against a wall at the auction house. It could have easily been missed, except for alert and prying eyes…
Posted in collectibles, Reader questions, and Vehicles
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…
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
I wasn’t sure what I’d find when I drove to Washington recently for the convention of the United Federation of Doll Clubs. I knew what I’d be looking for, though. Black dolls. Lots of them.…
Posted in Black history, Culture, Death, and slavery
Amelia Brown was 26 years old when she died in Philadelphia in 1819. No one today knows who she was, how she lived, or whether she was married or had children. All we have is…
Posted in Dolls, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
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…
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
I met Diane for the first time a couple years ago at my first doll auction. My auction buddy Janet and I had driven to an auction house not far from Philadelphia that was having…
When I saw “The Trip to Bountiful” back in 1985 with Geraldine Page, I found the movie plodding. Page’s portrayal of Carrie Watts was both sweet and sad, but I thought the play itself was…
In my mind, Doc Holliday was a gunslinger, one of the men who left behind a string of real and embellished legacies that were way from spotless. So when I was trolling the list of…
