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Toy Bronco + Kasper Hauser story, part 3
[This is the third installment in a four-part story by the members of Kasper Hauser. The auction for this object, with story by Dan Klein, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $38.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] I commissioned this sculpture of Fries n’ a Shake [...]
Continue reading...Gaucho Tray + Kasper Hauser story, part 2
10. March 2010
[This is the second installment in a four-part story by the members of Kasper Hauser. The auction for this object, with story by James Reichmuth, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $10.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] One thing I won’t need if I open my own [...]
Continue reading...Pencil Case + Kasper Hauser story, part 1
9. March 2010
[This is the first installment in a four-part story by the members of Kasper Hauser. The auction for this object, with story by Rob Baedeker, has ended. Original price: $2.00. Final price: $15.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] One night I looked at my saggy old beanbag, a [...]
Continue reading...Paper Fan + Lakin Khan story
3. March 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by Lakin Khan, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $21.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now. ] The cardboard sign, neatly hand-lettered in black, was propped in the front window of the crowded little shop: “Fans For Sale.” I imagined an [...]
Continue reading...Ceramic Shell + Charles Baxter story
25. February 2010
[The auction for this item, with story by Charles Baxter, has ended. Original price: $3.00. Final price: $23.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] This beautiful object was discovered in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, by a high school student, Emily Traumer, on the corner of North First Street and Third [...]
Continue reading...Hummingbird Feeder + David Levine story
24. February 2010
Object No. 3 of 50 — Significant Objects v3 [The auction for this object, with story by David Levine, has ended. Original price: $3.00. Final price: $19.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] “You can enjoy this. I left it outside. I am on a walking tour of the Arctic, [...]
Continue reading...Mickey Mouse Patch + Padgett Powell story
23. February 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by Padgett Powell, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $23.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now..] It is little known that the singer Marcia Ball worked briefly as a teenager at Disney. One day at the close of the shift she was [...]
Continue reading...Needlepoint Ornaments + Jennifer Weiner story
22. February 2010
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jennifer Weiner, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $62. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] We were married for sixteen years. When Christina was in Girl Scouts, she wanted to earn her sewing badge. I don’t sew: no time, [...]
Continue reading...Pan Flute
9. February 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by Deb Olin Unferth, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $63.50. Part of a special collaboration with Underwater New York, this object's story shipped rolled into a vintage bottle found on the beach of Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn. Proceeds from this auction go to 826 National.] I was [...]
Continue reading...“Charlie’s Angels” Lunchbox Thermos
1. February 2010
[The auction for this item, with story by Carl Wilson, has ended. Original price: $3.00. Final price: $20.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Wetnet Constitutional Group: Auratic Object Background Report 1 Archive fragment: John Forsythe (voice) as Charles “Charlie” Townsend; Farrah Fawcett-Majors as Jill Munroe (1976-77, recurring 1978-80); Kate Jackson [...]
Continue reading...Globe Paperweight
29. January 2010
[The auction for this item, with story by Debbie Millman, has ended. Original price: $1.49. Final price: $197.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.]
Continue reading...Fancy Piggy Bank
28. January 2010
[The auction for this item, with story by Martha McPhee, has ended. Original price: $3.00. Final price: $20.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] My grandmother gave me the piggy bank when I was four, for Christmas, wrapped in a box with bows. She said, “A penny saved is a [...]
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11. March 2010
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