Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in collectibles, Home, Lighting, and TV
Wow, I thought as I saw the two shelves of rather unusual but lovely lamps at the auction house. There were almost a dozen of them – all made of glazed ceramic in the colors…
Posted in collectibles, Holidays, and Lighting
I didn’t notice the hollow metal star until I was combing through a box of items I had just bought at auction. The word “Presto” was engraved on one side, and the areas around each of the…
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Lighting, Performers, Plays, Postcards, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Posted in Home, Lighting, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of the items that they own. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but…
Posted in Lighting
I spied the gaudy lamp from across the room as I stood waiting impatiently for nothing in particular to come up for auction. I was killing time, hoping that something, anything, would rise up from…
Wow, I thought when I saw the bulky theater spotlight there on the pavement at the auction house. It had a thick body with perfect Bakelite switches on the side propped atop a metal leg…
“Did you see the goldfish lamps,” my auction buddy Janet asked me as we stood among the furniture at one of my favorite auction houses. I had not. She pointed to a group of lamps…
A couple weeks ago, a fierce wind blew into the Philadelphia area and lingered, knocking over trash cans, uprooting trees and snapping their limbs, de-shingling rooftops, and sweeping up trash and debris. I had been out…
