Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Art, collectibles, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
The cement gray stone was about 3″ thick and reminded me of a cornerstone without the sharp bend. I knew this was no cornerstone because it had images inscribed on both sides. The stone seemed…
Posted in collectibles, and Games
I tried my hardest to roll the BB-sized silver balls into the round grooves on the face of the card. There were six tiny balls, and they were stubbornly rolling around in all directions or…
Posted in collectibles, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Personal items
The contraption sitting in front of me on a table in the back lot of the auction house was obviously a typewriter. It had the customary keys, but its typebars were aligned along two sides like…
Was this a joke? That’s what I wondered when I saw the label on the box of items on the auction table. The box looked like one of those clear plastic restaurant takeout containers. The…
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, collectibles, and Guess what it is
The coin bank was different from most I’d seen at auction. Usually, they were metal figural banks in the shape of a book with the name of an actual bank. They were likely given out to…
When I first saw the small metal replica of a horse’s backside, the vulgar epithet that one antagonist hurls at another came to mind. The item was lying on its side on the auction table, its third of…
Posted in Art, and collectibles
The woman in black lacquer with her hands folded behind her head and her bare chest poked out was the first lamp I saw on the table. It was among a thicket of metal table…
