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Dome Doll + Kirsten Miller Story
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Kirsten Miller, here. Proceeds from this auction go to Girls Write Now.] This dome doll was purchased three years ago for $1.07 (including tax) at a Dollar Store in the Chattahoochee Shopping Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was originally part of a pair. On the bottom of the [...]
Continue reading...Utah Snow Globe + Blake Butler Story
5. March 2010
[The bidding for this object, with story by Blake Butler, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $59.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] My granddad’s granddad had a box under his bed. If you got to open the box (you had to beg) you would find a [...]
Continue reading...Fortune-Telling Device
5. January 2010
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rachel Axler, has ended. Original price: $1.49. Final price: $56.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] 10/12/91 Q: Does John like me? A: TRY AGAIN Q: Does John like me? A: TRY AGAIN Q: …Does Alex like me? A: YES 11/27/91 Q: So I asked John out, and he [...]
Continue reading...Flip-Flop Frame
28. October 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Merrill Markoe, has ended. Original price: 59 cents. Final price: $21.80.] Any image that has been carefully placed in an antique gold frame embossed with angels and laurel wreathes becomes transformed in to something elevated and celestial. “All you need to know about this old person/building/animal/plate of [...]
Continue reading...Dilbert Stress Toy
21. October 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Betsey Swardlick, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $26. This story is the third in a three-part series produced in collaboration with The Center for Cartoon Studies. ]
Continue reading...Indian Maiden
13. October 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by R.K. Scher, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $157.50.] Visitors never fail to ask about my squaw. It’s what I like to call her, although one of those visitors, an earnest young art critic, did try to impress upon me the incorrectness of the term. [...]
Continue reading...Clown Figurine
9. October 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nick Asbury, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $11.61. ] Kenny is a funny clown Kenny is a funny clown. He sees the whole world upside-down. Kenny is my best friend. The day before Kenny was born, he said “I bet I can live life standing on me ’ead!” Kenny is from [...]
Continue reading...Wave Box
7. October 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Teddy Wayne, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $20.50.] At the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, on a June weekend in 2007, eighty-two men and women from Sealy, the mattress giant, converged for their national sales meeting. Sealy was falling behind [...]
Continue reading...Ornamental sphere
30. September 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Charles Ardai, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $20.50. ] The telegram arrived too late. The morning mail had brought the box, wrapped in a double thickness of brown paper and covered with fibrous packing tape I’d had to dig out the heavy Wüsthof cook’s knife [...]
Continue reading...Duck Vase
25. September 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Matthew Klam, has ended. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $15.75. ] I acquired this object at a flea market in the parking lot of a bilingual high school. Its little hands are smooth flippers. I believe it to be quite valuable, possibly antique, based on dates of [...]
Continue reading...Hand-Held Bubble Blower
17. September 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Myla Goldberg, has closed. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $36. ] This is not a toy. Only the young or the hopelessly commonsensical dip it into liquid soap, content with bubbles. Curl your fingers around the handle, lift it to your mouth, and flick the switch. [...]
Continue reading...Praying hands
2. September 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rosecrans Baldwin, has ended. Original price: $1.50. Final price: $26. ] The North Americans refused accusal. Constructed great cities and gave their names to them and let them crumble and then walked away. Disappeared in The Big Sand. Said never to apologize and seldom to slow down. [...]
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15. March 2010
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