The thin paperback manual was among a group of cookbooks I had picked up at an auction. I bought the lot because it contained a copy of a book I already own called “Parasols Is…
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Sojourner Truth’s ‘Ain’t I A Woman’ on a ‘76 poster
Posted in African American women, Black history, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
At first, it was hard to distinguish the image featured in the dark marks that seemed to be scattered in the center of the poster. The artist Marlene E. Miller had sketched a face in thick intersecting…
Wedgwood anti-slavery pin
Posted in jewelry
A couple weeks ago, I got a flyer in the mail for the upcoming two-day Quality Auction at one of my favorite auction houses. These are the house’s “prices-in-the-stratosphere” auctions for those of us who…