February 1st, 2010 · 8 Comments

Now this was a lot of fun to discover. I purchased an old leather sewing kit. It was in excellent shape and apparently had nothing inside it except a rusty threaded needle and brown paper padding at the bottom. However, there was something quite interesting and well hidden wrapped in that plain brown paper.
The mysterious [...]
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Tags: · antiquarian books, antiques, book pages, treasure hunting
January 17th, 2010 · 6 Comments

I first ran into this weird little doll about four years ago, close to when we moved here from Boston. He lived in a glass case in one of the local antique markets. I’m not really a doll person per se. I don’t collect them and I didn’t often play with them when I was [...]
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Tags: · antiques, dolls, folk art, found art, synchroncity, treasure hunting