Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in African American women, Books, and Music
On its website, the auction house was advertising a massive sale of books, 3,000 of them. The idea of so many books was so overwhelming that I wondered if it would be worth the effort…
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…
When the auctioneer mentioned that he had years’ worth of driver’s licenses, I couldn’t wrap my mind around it. How do you accumulate more than 30 years of licenses belonging to so many different people?…
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
Like most folks, Joyce Stamps didn’t grow up with black dolls, but when she was finally introduced to them fully as an adult, the genealogist in her was curious about their history. “I wish they…
Whenever I visit Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia, I always head to the amazing little nook that is its orchid house, where the plants are always in bloom in seemingly every color of the rainbow, healthy and…
Oprah Winfrey has culled some of the furnishings from her four homes, and put the stuff up for auction. Starting at 10 a.m. Pacific time in California tomorrow, you can bid on her lamps, chairs, autographed electric bikes and…
This is the story of an educator who apparently saw himself as much more than that. In the back room of an auction house recently, I came across tons of his freelance photos, proofs and…
Posted in collectibles, Figurines, and Uncategorized
The little girl figurine was hiding down in the box beneath a large dirt-speckled doll in faded and dingy clothes, and two smaller dolls equally as dirty, one with eyes, the other with holes where…
