We’ve all collected recipes. We’ve clipped them from magazines and newspapers, jotted them down from the memory of a family member or printed them from the web. At auction some months ago, I bought a…
Category: Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Pyramid Club’s black arts legacy
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
I was checking out the upcoming auction at one of my favorite places when I spotted it: A program for the Philadelphia Pyramid Club’s art exhibition from the 1940s. Was it possible? I had wanted…
One of the highlights of auctions for me is stumbling across history of the contributions of black people to this country. I react with sheer joy because much of it was never written or was…
A few weeks ago, I was walking among the tables at one of my favorite auction houses, not finding too much that struck my fancy. Then, on a far table I saw a box of…
It’s been a couple years since I’ve been to the Philadelphia Auto Show. It was in the city over the last week and closed yesterday amid the 28 inches of snow that trounced the place.…
In blue writing on the front of the small rectangular boxes I got at auction recently were the words “Henry Hudson Hotel, New York. 1200 Rooms. 1200 Baths.” They were three boxes of facial tissues,…
It’s magic!
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents
I don’t know much about magic, but with a free ticket in hand, I went to a Lance Burton show in Las Vegas one summer. It was entertaining, so much so that I bought one…
I was standing over a group of greeting cards on a table at auction this week and separating out the ones celebrating new births when my auction buddy Janet walked by. “Those are so cute,” she…
Ebony makes greeting cards? That was my first reaction when I spotted them while walking past the card section of a local Target a few weeks ago. They must be new, I surmised, because I…