Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Recent Acquisitions

A small stone statuette, depicting either a man shaped like a key or a key with feet.

Twenty yards of velvet, brushed against the nap and sprayed with a fixative.

A rubber mallet with a handle that was broken and badly repaired with electrician's tape.

A Philco television set, circa 1954, filled with goldfish bones.

Five taxidermic shrews, posed in a standing ring around a cup filled with very sharp red pencils.

A scrapbook full of clippings about Egyptian railway disasters. Marginalia in what appears to be Armenian.

A long playing record of hog calls, badly scratched.

An oil painting of a woman in a hoop skirt being menaced by a water spaniel.

A ten gallon glass jar. Empty, but smells of cucumbers and cinnamon.

A complete set of National Professional Soccer League cards from 1986, in uncut sheets (one per team).

A gold pocket watch, partially dipped in what appears to be creosote.

A bag of flaky black powder, certified to be the decomposed remains of a nitrate stock print of London After Midnight.

2 comments:

Agent Audrey said...

Item 5 is appealing to me, if ever you wish to part ways with it, I would make a generous offer.

Anonymous said...

A complete set of National Professional Soccer League cards from 1986, in uncut sheets (one per team).
Are you selling this?
bil707@yahoo.com