Tag Archive | "tableware"

BBQ Sauce Jar

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by (Slate contest winner) Matthew J. Wells, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $54.] Booth 106 was the regular table of Evelyn Nesbit — it’s where she was introduced to Charles Dana Gibson, who used her as the model for his famous Gibson Girl drawings; it’s [...]

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Cat Mug

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Thomas McNeely, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $17.] As a mug, it was useless: pot-bellied, so whatever we drank, herbal tea, cheap whiskey, cheap red wine, dribbled down our chins, as if we were children; the pouch behind the cat’s head, a promise of tidy [...]

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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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Kitty Saucer

Monday, July 13, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by James Parker, has closed. Original price: $1.25. Final price: $15.53 ] “You know, of course,” said the periodontist, as he bore down with his scalpel, “that Nancy Pelosi is insane?” Floyd Haruspex, gaping and nearly prone in the chair, made no answer. The question had been rhetorical anyway. “She [...]

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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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