Tag Archive | "figurine-animal"

Kangamouse

Monday, February 8, 2010

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[The auction for this item, with story by Chris Adrian, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $162.50. 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.] My brother and [...]

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Wooden Armadillo

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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[The auction for this item, with story by Randy Kennedy, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $16.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Later, in the glove box, the police found a letter. It said: “Letter To The Police, All the stuff in the trunk and underneath the sleeping bag [...]

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Fish Topiary Figurine

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sam Means, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $26.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] After the death of his older brother, Yuri III, in 1328, Ivan I of Moscow took up the throne of the Russian Empire, as [...]

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Bird Figurine

Monday, August 31, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sung J. Woo, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $52.] Last summer, my wife and I held a barbeque in our back yard. After the event, I saw a little yellow bird with a black crown and wings on the knickknack shelf above the toilet [...]

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Rhino Figurine

Monday, August 10, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nathaniel Rich, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $57.] Do you ever struggle to remember insignificant facts? Facts so small and irrelevant to the natural course of your life that you wonder how you ever learned them in the first place? And yet your inability to [...]

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Chili Cat figurine

Monday, July 6, 2009

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[The bidding on this Significant Object, with story by Lydia Millet, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $22.72.] I went with my friend G to her great aunt’s house a few weeks after the aunt passed away. G had been called in by the family to pick out one or two keepsakes. Because she [...]

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