Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
The engraving was an obvious mess. It had dark water stains in the upper left corner and at the bottom. The sides were nicked and a dark line cut right through the center. The paper…
Who buys globes anymore, I wondered as I stood near one, waiting for some items to come up for auction. This was a floor-model, with a wooden leg and 12-inch ball. With time on my…
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Movies
Anyone who’s a movie fan instantly recognizes the image of Humphrey Bogart. See a trench coat and you think “The Big Sleep.” See an old rickety boat and “The African Queen” materializes. Think of an…
I was about to pass right by a large box of flower pots when I did a double take. I stopped to make sure my eyes were not fooling me. But there it was, hard compacted lifeless…
The auctioneer held up the bi-folded photo frame containing a vintage photo of a man and woman. $5, he said to us auction-goers standing in the driveway of a brick home where a thicket of…
Posted in Music
When I usually come across a stack of albums at auction, I bypass them. That’s what I had done with about six boxes on a table at the front of the auction house. They’re too…
Posted in collectibles, and Vehicles
When I saw the model 1957 Chevy and the other vintage cars on the auction table, a memory flashed through my mind. I was a child, sitting on the porch with my cousins in a…
Posted in collectibles, and Home
It was hard to miss that strange and scary-looking creature among the sea items scattered over the long auction table. It was a replica octopus modeled into a stool, its tentacles (with suckers exposed) forming…
I found one! I found one! I found one! I felt like shouting to the rafters when I came across a reproduction of a Cream of Wheat ad from 1919 at auction with a little…
I know very little about stamps, and when they come up for auction I usually look the other way. Collecting them seems so complicated and insular. Those folks have a language, culture and knowledge base that’s…
