October 25, 2013
Here (finally!), as promised, are some detailed photos of the elaborately (and really rather magnificently) carved and painted Sicilian cart that went through last weekend’s carriage auction. I had hoped to post these yesterday but was having some computer issues and didn’t get anything at all posted. To reward you for your patience, I’m sharing a whopping ten photos here, which you can study at your leisure today and over the weekend. Enjoy!
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October 21, 2013
As promised, here are a few photos of the magnificently carved and painted Sicilian cart (one of two, actually) that went through Martin’s Auction. I don’t know what the winning bid was for this vehicle.
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Next, I’ll post some more photos (details, mainly) that I took with my “real” camera.
September 30, 2013
Yesterday, A.J. and I were on a long drive toward home, and we broke it up by stopping in Tennessee to browse through a few antiques stores. In one huge store, with a lot of old car and garage memorabilia, we walked into a back room and found this …
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September 24, 2013
This photo, c. 1903, of New York’s triangular Flatiron Building contains a plethora of pedestrians, streetcars, horse-drawn delivery wagons, and horse-drawn trucks, a few Hansom Cabs and other horse-drawn passenger vehicles, and even an early “horseless” carriage.
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September 12, 2013
I saw a photo floating around on Facebook earlier today that featured two stagecoaches in Nevada, c. 1903. And that photo led me to an article from several years ago on a website called True West.
If you can stomach it, the article offers a rather nauseating look at stagecoach travel in the West. The vehicles themselves are beautiful, but … blech.
Enjoy! 😉
The Slower Road 