Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Carvings, and collectibles
“Did you see the woman nutcracker?” my auction buddy Janet asked. I had gone through the tables at one of my favorite auction houses and had overlooked it. So I followed Janet to a table…
Posted in collectibles, and Movies
I was watching Bogie and Lauren Bacall in the movie “Key Largo” on cable a few months ago and lo and behold, what did I see on a table: One of those old heavy metal…
Posted in collectibles, Glassware, and Home
I’ve never been much of an Avon buyer. Avon to me was perfume and cologne – which I don’t wear because it irritates my nose – but who can forget “Skin So Soft,” its much-promoted…
Posted in Toys
My auction buddy Janet seems to like noisemakers. She’s always picking up a few here and there at auctions. Usually, she chooses the tin toys with black images on them. Clackers, clippers and clappers, that’s what they’re sometimes…
Posted in collectibles, and Home
“Maybe they cleaned it,” I said to the buyer slightly to the front of me as she hugged the slop jar/chamber pot she’d just gotten at auction. “They” were the previous owners who had once used…
I believe I have gremlins in my house. Some months ago, I cleaned up and left on my kitchen table three small vintage Coca Cola collectibles I had just gotten in a box lot at…
Posted in collectibles
The figurines were arranged like the inside of a black Baptist church on a Sunday morning. Three deacons in white on the right. Three mothers of the church in white on the left. The mothers…
I came across the name Stangl at an auction a couple years ago when I bought a lovely hand-colored pottery bird. The name was unfamiliar to me, but I’ve learned a lot about the company…
Posted in Art
Flea markets, auctions, collectibles can wound up in the most interesting of places. I was reading a story in my local newspaper, the Philadephia Inquirer, this morning about a theater production that sells objects from its set before…
