First, I saw the beige quilt with the red and tan pattern. It was much lovelier than most quilts I’d seen at auction. It was folded on top of furniture at the auction house and surprisingly, no…
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As I walked among the furniture at the auction house, I came upon an item that was familiar to me – but different. It was a female figure, very tall and lithe, elegantly dressed in…
A great day to pick up lovely pottery
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For a second, I thought I had walked into a ceramics pottery store. Or one of those “make your own” pottery shops with students’ creations lining the shelves of two tall and expansive stands. This…
A family of gold frogs with emerald rhinestones
Posted in Home, Personal items, and Trinket box
The frogs were the stars in the glass case at the auction house. They were textured with tiny bumps, and gold-tone in color with tiny emerald rhinestones all over their bodies. There was a paperweight…
A few years ago, a woman brought a lovely glass panel lamp to a presentation a friend and I were conducting to teach folks not to throw away their family’s treasures. The woman wanted to…
The ornate clocks created their own sea of gold, interrupted only by their white porcelain faces that stood out like watchtowers. They were placed tightly on a table and a shelf, and a few were…