Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Home
The auctioneer was holding up a straw broom, describing to us auction-goers its history and other qualities. My mind was wandering until he said it was made by students at Berea College. A black college…
I love vintage cameras, and whenever I see them at auction, I bid on them. Most of the time, I’m lucky and walk away with a couple. But I can’t seem to get my hands…
Posted in Uncategorized
At an auction recently, I came across a deck of Old Maid cards, 45 in a box. This was the second time in the last six months or so that I’d found a deck of the…
Posted in Style
“Your hair has a lot of tiny curls,” the reporter said to me. Her name was Rosemary and she was a white colleague at the paper where I worked in Tampa, Fla., some years ago.…
Posted in Crafts
I was at an auction in New Jersey a couple months ago digging through rows of boxes laid out on the ground in back of an auction house. In the fourth row, I came across…
Posted in jewelry
My auction buddy and I went to this week’s Quality Auction at one of our favorite auction houses to drool. We knew we couldn’t afford anything, but who knows, we might get lucky. We sat…
Posted in jewelry
A couple weeks ago, I got a flyer in the mail for the upcoming two-day Quality Auction at one of my favorite auction houses. These are the house’s “prices-in-the-stratosphere” auctions for those of us who…
Posted in Vehicles
From outside came the sounds of motorcycles, their vroom! vroom! blasting the Sunday morning air like thunder. It was motorcyle auction day and the guys were out. Inside, about 50 to 75 men by themselves, men…
My auction buddy overheard a regular bidder tell someone recently that when he went to his car one night after an auction, two of his tires had been flattened. This bidder is a quiet man…
Posted in Kitchen
I have a wooden rolling pin in my kitchen, sitting atop my stove like a piece of sculpture. It’s plain, relatively new and doesn’t get much use. It’s nothing like the old wooden ones I…
