I was just wasting some time at auction recently, nosing around on tables when I saw the little box almost hidden under more towering items. “Mystery meter, Love meter” was the title, and I was…
A meter to test your love
Posted in Games
Tag: auction
I’ve seen the little shoes that parents have cast in bronze as a memory of the time when their babies were cute and little and oh-so-precious. Imagine my surprise when I came upon a whole baby…
A love affair with the saxophone
Posted in Music
I wasn’t sure what was in the long black box I spied on the floor under the auction table. I assumed it was a musical instrument, because they come up for bids pretty often. I…
I spotted the racing car as soon as I turned the corner. Its slender body, low to the floor, took up a large block of space inside the frame of a mattress-less bed. Its orange…
The doll bed was in awful condition. It was dusty. It was dirty, and the ropes that once crisscrossed its bottom were busted, now only remnants. The bed still had its four wooden posts and…
A Josephine Baker record album
Posted in African American women, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Music, and Performers
I recognized the profile on the album cover as soon as I saw the name. Who wouldn’t know the stacked buns and long black ponytail that was the trademark hairstyle of the incomparable Josephine Baker. It’s not often that…
African wooden masks and carvings seemed to be cropping up more often at the auctions I attend. I wondered if people were shedding their links to the motherland and re-decorating, or families were discarding leftovers…
Lovely GE Monitor Top refrigerator
Posted in collectibles, and Kitchen
The refrigerator sat by the door, just inside the auction house. It seemed to be as pearly white as the day it was bought for $176.40 from Philadelphia Electric Co. On top was a round…
I was recently browsing the furniture space at an auction house, something I do pretty often because I usually spot such lovely antique pieces. I don’t buy, I just admire. I’m amazed at the awesome furnishings…