shoes – Auction Finds

Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources to help them determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do some…

April 11, 2011

sherry

Vintage button hooks to fasten your boots

Posted in Clothing, Personal items, and Sewing

I knew as soon as I saw the small rusted hooks with the lovely handles that they were mine. No one else at the auction house would bid on such dirty items. More than a dozen…

December 23, 2010

sherry

A man’s alligator, lizard & ostrich shoes

Posted in Clothing

The shoes were lined up neatly on the auction table, atop their original boxes, about 25 pairs of them. I had seen women shoes at auction before but never such a large number of men’s.…

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