Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Vehicles
There were 17 of them on the table at the auction house – the five brass cups with extended handles were most impressive. Lying on the table in front of them were plaques, and standing to the…
I was watching the 1942 movie “George Washington Slept Here” with Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan on TCM a couple nights ago. It was a delightful movie, and Jack Benny was his usual deceptively funny…
With Christmas only a few weeks away, I decided to go through my auction finds to come up with some items I’d seen or bought with this theme. I’ll share them with you as we…
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
The black woman standing before us was agitated. Did you see that picture on the wall over there, she asked my auction buddy Janet and me. Janet had seen it. I hadn’t. I always miss…
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Some months ago, I bought at auction six postal covers with illustrations of the attack on Pearl Harbor and other World War II battles drawn by a man named Fred Miller. I had never heard of Miller, but…
A couple days ago, I wrote about my surprise at what people collect. My post that day was about yo-yos. That got me to thinking about other collections I’ve bought or seen at auction. One that came…
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Home
This week, I decided to check a few of the old magazines I had picked up at auction to see if any were published around the Thanksgiving holidays. I wanted to see what articles, photos…
I was at a flea market recently and watched as a woman with her daughter, who looked to be about 12, walked up to a table. The woman spotted an item that she recognized, and…
Posted in Books, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
I have this thing for old documents. I can’t explain it, but whenever I see paper and other ephemera on tables at my auction houses, I instinctively head over and flip through them. I find that looking…
When I started out as a journalist some years ago, I wrote my stories on an electric typewriter. We reporters would type our stories and hand them to our editors who’d scribble all over them with their pens,…
