The male auction staffer heaved the ceramic bowl up onto a table top. The thing looked monstrous from where I stood back away from the auctioneer and crowd of bidders in the furniture room. I…
A fancy antique toilet bowl
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The musical legacy of Paulie Teardrop
Posted in Music, and Performers
This was the spot of a man who loved music. I could tell by the spectacular display of guitars sprawled on a table out front on the lawn, the two banjos, the antique Edison phonographs,…
I wasn’t sure what to take with me – the male and female anti-slavery tokens or the fragile Abraham Lincoln engraving. I knew some of the history of both, but I was curious to see…
A few years ago, my auction buddy Janet and I put our names in a lottery to get tickets for the Antiques Roadshow’s stop in Atlantic City. We waited and waited for the email telling…
Bicycles come up pretty often at auction, but I usually ignore them because if I buy one, it’ll go the same route as an exercise bike or treadmill at my place. It will end up…
Bobblehead cigar-smoking black male ashtray
Posted in collectibles, Crafts, and Figurines
I don’t know why I bought the metal figure of a black male with a cigar in his mouth, one hand in his pocket and the other on his hip. I’m not usually drawn to Black…
The bottle was beautifully shaped – a seated island man, the yellow coloring of his hat and shirt contrasting against his coffee-brown body. I wasn’t sure what he was selling as he sat there on a…
The huge black grand piano sat there like a good-looking man ensnaring me with a glance. My own eyes landed on it as soon as I walked into the furniture room at the auction house.…
Wine press? Looks like a giant nutcracker to me
Posted in collectibles, and Unusual
As I was making my preview rounds at an auction house, I came across a big wooden basket straddling a ledge on a wooden stand, a metal plunger in its center. It looked like a giant nutcracker. I…
As soon as I saw the wooden box of bones at the auction house, I knew I had to pull it out to take a closer look. On top was what looked like a tibia…