Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Health & Medicine, and Military
I had just passed the Blues Brothers Jake and Elwood in their trademark sunglasses and black suits singing their hearts out when I rounded the curve in the room at the auction house and saw…
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Music
Fridays 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…
The red room in the auction house was filled with beautiful antique furniture, but the sunshine-bright color of the statue standing in a corner overshadowed it all. The life-size figure stood there like a sentry, taller…
I didn’t see the young woman when she left the starting block, but I couldn’t miss her elegant glide as she slid the round granite curling stone down the white sheet of ice. She resembled a…
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Reader questions, and Sports
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 Carvings, collectibles, and Figurines
The wooden carved statue with the brown painted face looked more boy than man. He wore a gray coat with striped pants and a servant’s half-smile. His open left hand was extended as if he…
Posted in collectibles, and Toys
“What’s that on the bottom shelf,” my auction buddy Janet asked from where she sat in a folding chair in the front row of the auction house. I followed her eye to an open box…
Posted in collectibles, Halloween, and Movies
Fridays 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 Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Politics
The face on the brochure was both familiar and odious. Who could forget the image of the country’s most outspoken and virulent civil rights opponent who vowed that his way of life in mid-20th century Alabama…
I don’t usually waste my precious moments on electronic items in box lots at auction. Most times, they are old and obsolete, and have lost their raison d’etre. They’ve had their glory years, many revolutionary in…
