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Duck Nutcracker

Monday, December 14, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Wayne Koestenbaum, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $37.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Gloria Swanson owned a duck nutcracker. Guests, including Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone, cracked nuts at Gloria’s cocktail parties. After Gloria died, John Travolta inherited the [...]

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Santa Nutcracker

Friday, July 10, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Kurt Andersen, has closed. Original price: $2. Final price: $15.50.] Although I live now in Indianapolis, I grew up in Gas City, which is a town (not a city) about an hour and a half northeast. During the summers after 7th and 8th grades through a program [...]

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