Did you see the confessional? the co-owner of the auction house asked me as I stood there talking to another auction-goer. The auctioneer conducting the bidding had looked for me when it came up, he…
Category: Religion
Judaica artifacts are a mystery to me
Posted in collectibles, Culture, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Religion
The special items up for auction that Sunday in December smacked you right in your face as you walked through the door. They were laid out on tables, stacked on shelves in glass cases, hung on…
Someone tore the mummy in half. Early on at the auction house, it had stood erect, wrapped in tattered green fabric with a hat on its head. Later, I saw it severed at the waist, its torso…
How we ‘wear’ our faith
Posted in Religion
The New York street seller had already snookered one of my friends into buying a booklet of photos of the World Trade Center attack. So, when he accosted us again after we’d toured the exhibit…
A dream book of lottery numbers
Posted in Books, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, history, and Religion
I get a lot of requests from readers wanting to know where to buy a dream book and asking me to look up numbers for them. Please Google “dream book” to find an online store that sells…
I was going through some auction items of a black soldier last weekend with some friends, and we came across the man’s small Bible. It had been given to him by the U.S. Army when…
I always wonder if the items I bring home from auctions hold the spirits of the people who once owned them. I wonder if bits of their spirits remain in the clothes they wore, the…