kitchen – Auction Finds

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I have a few vintage items in my kitchen, some canned food labels and vegetable seed packets that I had framed and are now hanging on my walls. Some are authentic, others are cardboard reproductions.…

January 31, 2011

sherry

Settees, an iron radiator and a Caloric stove

Posted in furniture, Home, and Kitchen

Every now and then, I’m struck by some very disparate items on the auction tables and on the floor. At one of my favorite auction houses recently, four things stopped me: Two settees with side…

October 25, 2010

sherry

Stocking an imaginary kitchen

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It was a complete set of Pfaltzgraff gray dinnerware that struck me with the idea. I was standing there at the auction, listening as the auctioneer desperately tried to sell the dishes for $5. No one…

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