My buddy Kristin was very clear about why she had come to Longwood Gardens on this warm and crisp afternoon: To see the Christmas lights. Not room after room of beautiful fragrant flowers, plants and…
Category: Christmas
Christmas stocking stuffers buried in box lots
Posted in Beauty Products, bottles, Carvings, Christmas, collectibles, Dolls, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Holidays, jewelry, and Personal items
The woman was as gleeful as a little girl with her boxes of Barbies and doll clothes. She couldn’t wait to get them home and go through them, she said. You never know what’s hidden…
Readers ask about MC Jones art & Christmas pyramids
Posted in Art, Christmas, Holidays, 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 the items that they own. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but…
Most of us would love to give and get something new, different and unique at Christmas – a gift we won’t likely see in the malls. Some of the best gifts can be found on the auction…
Signs of Christmas
Posted in Christmas
A couple weeks ago I was reading my local newspaper when I saw a story about Christkindlmarkt, an indoor market with craftspeople, food and music in Bethlehem, PA. It sounded like fun, so I decided to go.…
The man was an island of calmness standing there behind a display of three chalk-like Santas positioned on top of a vintage sled. You could almost miss him amid the bustle of Christmas shoppers at Christkindlmarkt Bethlehem,…
The two gingerbread men were adorable lying there atop their boxes. And they were not alone, for there were two short rows of these Christmas ornaments. I knew they were Lenox before even checking them.…
I used to dutifully go out and find the right Christmas tree each holiday season. I’d buy it from a seller who’d set up rows of trees with full thick branches in the same parking lot…
Oh no, I thought as the auctioneer started moving disparate items into a lot. He was desperately trying to sell some unsellable junk on the auction table and no one was biting. First, he slid…