First Live Auction in a Long Time!

I have so been looking forward to this auction! For over a week once I discovered it was happening. I first headed over there Thursday where you could look the stuff over and decide what you wanted to bid on. Not to mention looking up comps and specs.

The last auction I went to was with my Mom. When? I'm going to guess 25 or so years ago. I remember the Auctioneer looking at her to see if she wanted to continue bidding and how cool as a cucumber she was nodding yes or no. It was good training for me.

I barely got there before the auction commenced. I took my seat and then realized I needed to be closer to the action so I sat in row three in front of the auctioneer, sort of. Close enough to see and hear. Except they had the microphones going out at least 3 times. There were three auctioneers and the "Senior" one who was last was very old school. With the singing nonsense in-between bids. He also went a little too fast and missed some bids. The other two were younger and the last one, or the one who finished up had my number. He actually had my number and no longer needed me to hold it up when I won.

It was exhilarating.   

So many people there. Despite the covid virus code red in Louisville. Maybe 30 of us. One serious bidder, I called her Throw Mama from the Train becuase under her mask she resembled the character exactly. She even walked like her. And had greyish hair in the Throw Mama style. That woman bid and  bid and bought and bought everything! The doll heads above I dearly wanted because I love doll heads and doll parts. They are a pretty easy sell. I call them a macabre oddity when I post them on Mercari and Ebay. But old Throw Mama scooped them up as a bundle and paid about $40. I wanted to nab them for closer to $10.  But I did get the Kentucky Derby Barbie and she is sold already!!

I got every thing I went for and then some, two lots for $1 and I got excited and picked up another lot for about $60 that included a Queen of Elizabeth Barbie but it was a lot also and included a few other things that I should be able to flip..I missed on the Princess Di and Prince Charles dolls. 

I went in thinking I went in thinking I would spend 300$ and I ended up only 30 something over . Which is a relief. It could have been much worse.

Thanks Mom. I miss you.