Tag Archive | "creamer"

Penguin Creamer

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sari Wilson, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $31.] It’s incongruous. The buttery finish, the fluted spout, the air hole in the back of its head offering a peek into its ceramic innards, a glimpse of the thick cream that no one is supposed to have [...]

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Creamer Cow

Monday, July 6, 2009

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[Bidding on this Significant Object, with story by Lucinda Rosenfeld, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $26.] My grandmother, Zippy Friedman, was an administrator at Austen Riggs Psychiatric Hospital in Stockbridge, MA, for several decades beginning in the 1950’s. She was also a close friend of artist Norman Rockwell and was instrumental in having him [...]

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