Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Decorating, and furniture
The woman and I had the same thought at the same time. “It looks like a rabbit,” she said. And she was right. We were staring at a strange and unconventional lounge chair with thick…
Posted in Businesses, Computer/Electronics, Decorating, and Mystery Finds
The glass sphere with the wide green band around its middle resembled a transparent globe with gadgets inside. It was even tilted like the earth on its axis. But it wasn’t a globe, and none of the auction-goers seemed to…
Posted in Decorating, and furniture
One of my auction buddies is always talking about taking some dilapidated chair or other piece of furniture and turning it into a masterpiece. She gets these ideas after watching some design show on TV…
Posted in Decorating, furniture, and Religion
It was as if the furniture had been celestially placed. Earlier, I had ventured through the rooms at the auction house, admittedly not paying much attention to the furniture. I try to eyeball everything in…
Posted in Christmas, Decorating, Holidays, and Home
I was at two auctions over the past few days, and once again my mind was overwhelmed by the excess. Not at all the everyday stuff we buy but at the bloated tables of Christmas decorations. Both…
Posted in Animals, Decorating, and Home
Lately, I’ve been accosted at auction houses by the sight of life-sized mounted black bears. Some were posed in quiet unmenacing positions – standing atop a stack of boulders or planted on the floor as a display in…
Posted in Decorating, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
Each Friday, I offer questions submitted by readers seeking information about items that they own or were given. I also get questions asking me to determine the value of items. For those, I have no…
Posted in Decorating, furniture, and Home
It wasn’t Halloween yet but the two vintage-looking chairs I had just approached at the auction house were certainly in disguise. They had been placed front and center in a room full of dark-wood antique…
Posted in Art, collectibles, Decorating, furniture, and Home
I had just walked into the room of items-with-auction-prices-so-high-I-could-barely-see-over-them when an auctioneer-owner from another house waved me over. She was standing near a simple black coffee table with a wavy top and puzzle base. As…
Posted in Decorating, furniture, and Home
I was watching one of those TV antique shows recently when one of its buyers-with-too-much-money-and-not-enough-smarts bought an old potty. It reminded him of the kind he had used as a child growing up in Brooklyn, NY, and…
