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Bear Shaker

26. January 2010

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[The auction for this item, with story by Annie Nocenti, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $36.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] This cold ceramic bear witnessed some electrifying poker hands. Saw leather-faced wide-brimmed Doyle Brunson run a ten three offsuit. Watched matchstick-thin Amarillo Slim bluff his [...]

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Glass Hen

13. January 2010

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Alissa Nutting, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $34.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] I agreed to stay with Grandma through her final days only because she was hallucinating. I’ve always wanted to hallucinate but am unable. It [...]

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Fortune-Telling Device

5. January 2010

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[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 [...]

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Letters and Numbers Plate

23. December 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Joe Lyons, has ended. Original price: $2.49 Final price: $61.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] It’s true that there are many accounts of fascinating Amish dinnerware, but none is more interesting than Samuel Stoltzfus’ Divining Plate, forged in 1881. [...]

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Painted Lady Figure

21. December 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Shelagh Power-Chopra, has ended. Original price: $.25. Final price: $24.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Annie won the doll after a giddy round of skee ball. A stooped man behind the dirty balls handed her the doll and she [...]

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Friday Mug

7. December 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Dan Reines, has ended. Original price: $.50. Final price: $12.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] I think it was Ted Spain’s to start with, though I’m not sure. He used to take it to meetings, and on Fridays before [...]

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Plastic Communion Cross

2. December 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Mark Binelli, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $10.49.  Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Shortly after I made my First Communion, my cousin Rodney showed up at my mom’s. He’d also just made his First Communion, though at a [...]

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Flip-Flop Frame

28. October 2009

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[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 [...]

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Dilbert Stress Toy

21. October 2009

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[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. ]

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Indian Maiden

13. October 2009

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[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. [...]

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Clown Figurine

9. October 2009

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[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 [...]

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Wave Box

7. October 2009

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[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 [...]

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