New Year's Antiques Auction

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. Provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

-Robert Hughes

Empire Dresser (19th century)

The New Year. A time to look forward, to reinvent, and rediscover who we really are. This time of year I often find myself thinking about New Year's past. What were people wearing? What kind of parties did they go to? What sort of furnishings surrounded them? In other words, as much as I like to look forward I also have a bit of nostalgia for a past I never knew. Merriam Webster's dictionary defines nostalgia as "wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition." When it is cold and dark and I find myself longing for a connection with days gone by, I can think of no better remedy than an auction. Below is one auction that looks like it will have a good selection of antique furniture and objects.

Meal Chest (this was a large chest for storing corn)

ANNUAL ANTIQUE & COLLECTIBLE’S AUCTION.
FRIDAY JANUARY 1ST 2010 @ 10:00 A.M
722 SOUTH FRANKLIN STREET “ST. RT. 122”
EATON, OHIO

Less than three hours north of Louisville, one and half hours east of Indianapolis and just one hour northwest of Cincinnati. Click here for a map