Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Personal items
The auctioneer was both surprised and delighted. He was selling a tray of crucifixes, talking them up so us auction-goers would bid up the price. He had taken one crucifix from the tray, eyed it closely and…
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, and furniture
For me, silver is the color of a dime, a necklace, forks and spoons, and antique vessels. So imagine my delight when I was browsing the furniture offerings at an auction house recently and came…
Posted in Animals
The silhouette is unmistakable. The long head ending in a square jaw and a plum of a nose, an elongated body wrapped in a black shaggy coat and a quarter-moon tail extended in the air. It is…
Posted in Black history, food, and Kitchen
The metal pot with the army green patina looked like a thicker version of an Asian wok there on the auction table. I slid off the lid and saw a jumble of heavy metal parts inside.…
I went searching for the rickshaw as soon as I got to the auction house. I had seen a photo on the website and my auction buddy Janet had also mentioned it to me. I…
I spotted the nondescript flip-over chalkboard placard first. It resembled so many I had seen outside New York restaurants advertising their menus, and most times, they faded into the sidewalk. This one was a bit…
My friend Valorie pulled me aside as I stood listening to a curator expounding on artist Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting “The Annunciation,” its brilliant light and shadows illuminating not only the painting itself but its message.…
Posted in Photos
It was a simple cardboard box, sitting low in front of some computer towers and near some laptops on a side table in a room at the auction house. The box seemed out of place…
When I came upon the handful of books on the auction table, I wasn’t sure what they were. Then I saw the title: War Ration Book 4. And then I saw Book 3 and several…
The hot tub was literally the elephant in the room. You could not walk from one room in the auction house to another without practically bumping into it. As big as it was, though, I had…
