I stood slightly away from the table, trying to get a better look at two bulky and very dirty horse saddles lying on the floor, wondering how anyone could ever have heaved them on top of a…
Tag: auction
Treasures in a little girl’s keepsake chest
Posted in Children, and collectibles
The mahogany box with the little treasure chest on top was closed, so naturally I had to see what was inside. That’s what you do at auctions, because you never know what’s hiding inside shuttered boxes. As…
To be honest, I bought the first clock to sell. It’s a Welby anniversary clock, a brand I hadn’t heard of before, in brass and glass with a finial that resembles a spider. It’s sitting…
I paid little attention to the owner as he whispered in the ear of the auctioneer. The tall portly man had been moving around the auction house all afternoon, so it wasn’t strange that he would bend…
So I’m sitting in the audience at the auction, my hands and feet freezing because the owner has not fired up the furnace for the season, when I noticed that the auctioneer kept mentioning the…
The trio was sitting high and playing loud. The auction house had placed the wooden female jazz singer, and her piano and trumpet players on a perch atop some furniture seemingly to give them prominence. They…
Protest posters from the Vietnam War
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
The entire back stone wall of the auction house was awash in posters. Their silent messages gave off the forceful sound of the weapons in the war they were protesting. Someone was selling a large…
1880 book on Fisk Jubilee Singers & their songs
Posted in Books, and Uncategorized
I don’t know how I had missed the book, possibly because it was hidden in one of the many boxes of outdated books up for auction. Someone with a quick eye had located it and handed…
The man and his wife had just moved to Philadelphia with their family and were decorating their house. His wife was looking for a lamp, he told me, and she had considered buying one before they…
“Isn’t it amazing,” I said to the man who seemed to have taken root in the stuffed chair, his wife close by smiling at his relaxed figure. “And it’s comfortable, too,” he replied, which was obvious…