I watched as the man picked up the stiff Mr. Peanut costume from a table in the back lot of the auction house and tried it on for his friends. It was one of those…
Tag: Halloween
The two diaries had been in a box of other items I actually wanted at auction. I found them later while I was going through the box at home. One of the diaries was locked and the…
I had arrived at the auction a few minutes late and didn’t get a chance to make my walk-through to see what was there. I craned my neck over the tables behind the auctioneer, who…
Someone tore the mummy in half. Early on at the auction house, it had stood erect, wrapped in tattered green fabric with a hat on its head. Later, I saw it severed at the waist, its torso…
Listening to the sounds of noisemakers
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…
Rubber stamps as collectibles
Posted in Crafts
I was at an auction in New Jersey a couple months ago digging through rows of boxes laid out on the ground in back of an auction house. In the fourth row, I came across…