Tag Archives: religious

Absolution Figurine

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[The auction for this object, with story by Colleen Werthmann, has ended. Original price: $3.00. Final price: $11.50. Significant Objects will donate proceeds from this auction to Girls Write Now.] During the Sacraments, cheat out. That way the whole church … Continue reading →

Plastic Communion Cross

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Mark Binelli, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $10.49.  Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Shortly after I made my First Communion, my cousin … Continue reading →

Cracker Barrel Ornament

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Maud Newton, has ended. Original price: 59 cents. Final price: $24.50.] This astonishing “Cracker Barrel” artifact appears to be a souvenir of modern vintage, representing a down-home North American restaurant-and-country-store chain … Continue reading →

Choirboy Figurine

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by J. Robert Lennon, has ended. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $21.50.] The day after the day I turned seventeen, three weeks after the recital in which I received the award for … Continue reading →

Rainbow Sand Animal

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sloane Crosley, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $57.66.] Alec Baldwin never had a Bar Mitzvah. The non-fact of this, the bloated lack in the calendar of his mind, … Continue reading →

Praying hands

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rosecrans Baldwin, has ended. Original price: $1.50. Final price: $26. ] The North Americans refused accusal. Constructed great cities and gave their names to them and let them crumble and then … Continue reading →

Star of David Plate

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Adam Harrison Levy, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $15.50. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it is co-published here.] Now that Budd Schulberg … Continue reading →

Ireland Cow Plate

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[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 … Continue reading →