Tag Archive | "souvenir"
Aquarium Souvenir
[The auction for this object, with story by Mark Jude Poirier, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $66.07. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] We drove to Wildwood Aquarium, left Alice at her apartment, even though it had been her idea to go. The week before, a German visitor [...]
Continue reading...Harvard Reunion Dish
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
[The auction for this item, with story by Paul Jaskunas, has ended. Original price: $1.49. Final price: $19.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] A conversation between a husband and a wife in their room at the Plaza Hotel, in 1966, ends in an agreement to divorce. Outside their door, [...]
Continue reading...Just Married Cup
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Barbara Bogaev, has ended. Original price: $0.75. Final price: $81.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] He’s close to death, but he’s giving my mom a look as if he’s about to leap over the hospital bed rail and throttle [...]
Continue reading...Bowling Bag Salt Shaker
Friday, December 11, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Lydia Millet, has ended. Original price: $0.50. Final price: $49.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] I’ve always wanted to be good at a bar game. Pool would be my first choice, but no hope there. Darts was an option, [...]
Continue reading...Missouri Shotglass
Friday, November 13, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jonathan Lethem, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $76.] Listen, friend, forget about the bartender, you could wait all day in this dive, we might as well be invisible over here, I kid you not. Here, let me pour you a drink. No, really, I insist, [...]
Continue reading...Geisha Bobblehead
Thursday, November 12, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Edward Champion, has ended. Original price: $1.50. Final price: $56.] The resilient ruffians ran away with the geisha’s canes just after she refused to perform a classless act. While it was true that the geisha dramatized the occasional lowbrow feat, befitting an object of her status, even [...]
Continue reading...Bar Mitzvah Bookends
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Stacey Levine, has ended. Original price: $4. Final price: $10.50.] I’m not a collector, but really a purloiner, and there’s only a brief backstory to these novelties. When my second wife died, I sought companionship. So I installed a soda machine in my bedroom — it would be [...]
Continue reading...Thai Hooks
Friday, October 16, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Bruno Maddox, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $19.50.] Did she love me? Nah. Did I love her? Yeah. So I got her this wooden map of Thailand with four hooks sticking out. Figured she could use it to hang items on — you know, in [...]
Continue reading...Wave Box
Wednesday, October 7, 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...Hawaiian Utensils
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Stephen Elliott, has ended. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $4.24.] I bought these Hawaiian utensils, a wooden spoon and fork, while living in Alaska in the mid-eighties with my first wife. We were living outside the Eskimo village Wales on the western edge of the state, three [...]
Continue reading...Kentucky Dish
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Dean Haspiel, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $6.75.] Kentucky reminds me of my first and, probably, only encounter with a friend whom aliens had, supposedly, abducted. In the late 1980s, I co-created and drew a comic book mini-series with a writer who lived in Kentucky. [...]
Continue reading...Ireland Cow Plate
Thursday, August 6, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sarah Rainone, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $41.] As my husband and I were driving back to New York after my mother’s funeral, I spotted a general store on the Rhode Island-Connecticut border, the kind that exist solely for those who forgot to bring something [...]
Continue reading...$4,221.93
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