Comments on: What? You Don’t Have Five Barns Full of Parade Floats? Weird.

By: The Last Auction. | Blog con Queso

The Last Auction. | Blog con Queso — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:02:44 +0000

[...] have our third and final auction of my great uncle PJ Allen’s estate. As you may remember (last fall I wrote about this and Jenny did too), PJ was a professional Parade Float and party decorator for festivals, parades, [...]

By: Ines

Ines — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:14:25 +0000

Ahm, forgot to say that I saw the link to the auction house, but thought that, since the auction was in September, the auctioneer is probably not in charge for the rest… If I am wrong, I will gladly email him/her!

Ines

By: Ines

Ines — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:04:57 +0000

Dear Laura,

I cannot find an email address to contact you on your blog (although that is most probably due to the fact that it’s almost 5 a.m. here in Germany and I should have gone to bed some hours ago), so I’ll try it here: I came to your blog via Jenny (Bloggess) and saw those unbelievably great items that were (or were not, at least perhaps not all?) sold at the auction. I scrolled through the pictures and felt the strong need to ask you if, possibly, the following picture might NOT have been sold (and therefore, be available for sale):

http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/showimage.cgi?lid=1207846&type=tn&in=405

I don’t dare to really hope for it, since it is such a great piece of art, but since it does almost never happen that I fall in love that instantly with something, I thought I should give it a try.

I would really appreciate it a whole lot if you could let me know if YOU know if the piece was sold, or if you could tell me who I could/should ask!

Thank you!

ines

P.S. Sorry for eventual typos/bad grammar: late late hours and foreign language is not a really good combo…

By: A Voice From the Past | Blog con Queso

A Voice From the Past | Blog con Queso — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:27:42 +0000

[...] With her superhuman internet search powers, she found an obscure interview that my great uncle PJ did in the 1970s about his parade float business. [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:38:29 +0000

Ah such a shame I discovered this 2 days too late. Did you sell it all? The large iron washing pot would be greatly loved and used here..

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:40:36 +0000

If I were in your shoes I couldn’t even imagine selling all of that off. How cool and fun it all is. You could charge and admission fee and set up a donation box online and that would make up for the cost and upkeep of it all. Seriously. It is all too fabulous to sell off. I hope you didn’t end up doing it!!!

By: A Voice From the Past | Blog con Queso

A Voice From the Past | Blog con Queso — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:51:40 +0000

[...] What? You Don’t Have Five Barns Full of Parade Floats? Weird. [...]

By: Kristen (@Mommy4Cocktails)

Kristen (@Mommy4Cocktails) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:29:48 +0000

Desperately plotting how to get to Texas and how to bring George back home to VA.

By: The Revolving Diet

The Revolving Diet — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:51:11 +0000

I need the monkey hands, the pig and the totem poles and the genie…..How can I bid…I’m in NJ!!!

Such amazing neat stuff, I could hang in that barn for years just playing – how lucky you were to be able to see all that stuff!

By: Madfishmonger

Madfishmonger — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:49:59 +0000

What an incredible treasure, so inspiring. I had a relative who was an artist for Eaton’s (used to be a major chain in Canada). They used to illustrate their catalogs with the fashions instead of photographs, she made quite a good living at it I believe. Isn’t it wonderful to have some relatives who aren’t drooling idiots or embarrassing weirdos? Your uncle sounds like an incredible person, I wish I could get just a tiny piece. Everything looks so amazing. I want that to be my job.

If at the end you end up with anything fabric-y that doesn’t sell or you want something made from it, let me know and I will see what I can do with the ol’ Singer.