Who doesn’t love a carousel? They evoke memories of carnivals and state fairs without the hair-raising and screaming fits of roller-coasters. They are the genteel rides, slow and steady, their immobile horses guiding you in…
Category: Guess what it is
The item was sitting atop a table in the furniture room at the auction house, a crisscross puzzle of ropes. I always scope out the furniture at auction houses because some the most unusual and beautiful…
Guess the new function of this Fli-Back paddle
Posted in Games, Guess what it is, and Toys
I instantly recognized the shape of the flat wooden item on the auction table, but its current function was far different from what I remembered. I flipped it over and saw the familiar cowboy on…
The light blue item with the oversized white faux stitching and NFL/Bud Light emblems looked way out of place among the more stylish and expensive items on the auction-house floor. A whimsical item, it was…
Here I am again with a guessing game of items that I found interesting at auction. I wasn’t sure what to make of one of them until I read the sticker that the auction house…
Can you find the key to open this puzzle bank?
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…