Auction Treasures

Last week I had the pleasure of an overnight road trip to Pennsylvania with my friends Marla and Amy. Marla owns Glory Be, a beautiful shop in Occoquan, VA specializing in high country and primitive furniture, home accents and gifts. Amy creates beautiful stained glass nightlights and other pieces. We all love a good deal and always enjoy finding new places to explore and poke around in. One of our favorite places to go is an auction house called Yingling’s in Gettysburg. We were quite disturbed to find that it had closed but luckily asked in one of the stops along the way and they told us it had been relocated to a fire station down the road. We were able to find it. There were three auctions going on at once, it was very crowded and smelled funny. Amy took one look and said NOPE and went out in the car for a nap. I left Marla surveying the main room and wandered off to where they were selling box lots for a quarter and fifty cents. Is there something wrong with me? I LOVE the thrill of the bidding (and yes, it’s a pretty quick thrill when the bidding is a quarter and over in about ten seconds) and anticipation of finding out what could be contained in this box under the working(?) VCR, four doll sized straw hats and junky plastic tablecloth? As usual, I was not disappointed. When I unpacked it later that night, I found an antique atlas dating back to the late 1800’s which will be great for some collage ideas I’ve been wanting to try, four pretty little white milk glass vases that I am currently collecting, three silver bowls which polished up great and assorted other items which have since been assimilated.

My favorite find of the trip though, was a small green child’s size hutch I found in an antique mall. Although I justified desiring it by claiming that Trinity could play with it when she came to visit, I totally knew it was because I just loved it. The price was $75 which is more than I usually would consider but Marla asked if they’d take $50 and they said OK which was all I needed to hear and the deal was done. I am looking for just the right place to put it and am cnsidering using it on my desk with paper clips, rubber bands and pens inside. I know I will look at it and be happy and remember the fun trip with my friends.