At auction, I’m always finding items that touch me or cause me to stop. Sometimes, I will buy them; other times, I just snap a photograph to view later. Today, on this day after Thanksgiving, I’d…
Category: Carvings
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…
I had spent much of my time at the preview of the museum exhibit of African American art looking at the works on the walls. I recognized most of the artists, and had seen some of their works…
Readers ask about Black Americana card-holder, dashboard clock & Coke bottle
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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…
The red room in the auction house was filled with beautiful antique furniture, but the sunshine-bright color of the statue standing in a corner overshadowed it all. The life-size figure stood there like a sentry, taller…
Life-size Black Americana calling-card holder
Posted in Carvings, collectibles, and Figurines
The wooden carved statue with the brown painted face looked more boy than man. He wore a gray coat with striped pants and a servant’s half-smile. His open left hand was extended as if he…
The Native American figures were exceptionally carved. The maker had given them some dignity in wood, surely not matching the ways they were perceived in the era the carvings were made. They were symbols for a…
I came looking for the coffins, the shellac boxes that cost too much money but we all feel obligated to bury our loved ones in, anyway. These were supposed to be African coffins, so I didn’t…
I was so fixated on the wide backside of the gray elephant that I didn’t even see the snake. I don’t often come across a life-size baby elephant – real or otherwise – at auction so…