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…
Tag: Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Discarding old college photos
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Photos
The photos in the album were stunning, not only in their execution but in the stories they told. These photos offered a slice of life at Nazareth College in the mid-1930s: A 1935 commencement of women…
Don’t throw away your family’s history
Posted in Black history, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Photos
Dr. Diane Turner held up a small photo album containing the documents of an African American soldier who had served in World War I. She had found and bought it on eBay, and she was astounded.…
I didn’t know Hazel Allen, but from the scrapbooks, photo albums and magazines lying on tables at the auction house, I could tell that she saw the value of saving history. My first introduction to…
I’ve been to many auctions where the simplest of African American ephemera has been snapped up by dealers. But I was not prepared for the prices on such items at a recent manuscript auction. When did our…
The ticket stub was among a box lot of items I had bought at auction. It was for the “Exposition Universelle de 1900,” the Paris International Exposition of 1900. Printed on the front of the…
Do you remember Rickie Tickie Stickies? I didn’t when I first found a bunch of them in packages while inspecting a box lot from auction a couple weeks ago. I was going to toss them until…
It’s been a couple years since I’ve been to the Philadelphia Auto Show. It was in the city over the last week and closed yesterday amid the 28 inches of snow that trounced the place.…
On Sunday, one of my favorite auction houses sold all kinds of ephemera or paper items: vintage advertising trade cards, Christmas cards, greeting cards, album cards, postcards, books, female pin-up prints, recipe booklets and calendars.…