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Haul· June 8, 2026· Found in East Alabama

Saturday Night at East Alabama Auction House

Most Saturday nights I come home from the auction with a manageable box or two. This week I pushed past that. The East Alabama auction house was running a good room — tables packed from the front wall to the back — and I ended up bidding more aggressively than usual.

Glassware led the haul by volume. You can see the milk glass clearly in the foreground of the photo: a hobnail bowl, a tall vase, and several custard cups among them. There's also a wooden mail-slot organizer, what looks like a fold-top jewelry or trinket box with a painted ivy motif, and boxes of costume jewelry loose enough to suggest they came out of a dresser drawer rather than a display case. Scattered across the tables in the photo are the kinds of things that make a good auction run — a silverplate urn, some pottery, a vintage folding camera, home decor pieces, and a vintage family Bible.

Beyond the glassware there were board games, bedding, and a Tennis Tudor — one of those electric tabletop football-style tennis games from the 1970s — that I wasn't expecting to find but wasn't going to leave behind either. Folk art and wooden bowls rounded things out.

This was also the first time I ran a new lookup tool I built for myself, something to pull up comps and category info faster while the lots are moving. Made a real difference in how quickly I could decide. I bid on things I might have passed on before just from not having the data in time.

Items from this haul will start coming online across our shops over the next week or two — keep an eye on the listings if any of this looks like your kind of thing.

From this haul

71

items listed

17

sold

54

still available

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