The huge eyes were the first thing I saw as I entered through the outside door into the furniture room at the auction house. They were staring straight at me, situated on either side of a gargantuan nose…
Category: Unusual
Weather-beaten outhouse with crescent-moon cutout
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, Home, and Unusual
The outhouse was the first thing I spotted when I turned the corner on the ramp overlooking the back lot at the auction house. There it stood without leaning, with its gray weather-beaten boards and…
I was so fixated on the wide backside of the gray elephant that I didn’t even see the snake. I don’t often come across a life-size baby elephant – real or otherwise – at auction so…
What torturous chair is this?
Posted in furniture, Health & Medicine, Medicine, and Unusual
The metal chair with the white seat looked like some kind of torture equipment – used either by the prison system to end a mind or some sadistic hospital to control it. I stumbled onto…
A vampire-killing kit? You’ve got to be kidding
Posted in collectibles, Religion, and Unusual
It was a simple note in an email from my auction friend Rebecca: “Take a look at the auction site of Brunk Auctions, the March 23rd auction. Lot #23. Interesting item for your blog.” Rebecca…
Wine press? Looks like a giant nutcracker to me
Posted in collectibles, and Unusual
As I was making my preview rounds at an auction house, I came across a big wooden basket straddling a ledge on a wooden stand, a metal plunger in its center. It looked like a giant nutcracker. I…
As soon as I saw the wooden box of bones at the auction house, I knew I had to pull it out to take a closer look. On top was what looked like a tibia…