Being Known as an Inveterate Bargain Hunter, Collector of One-Too-Many Bowls and Occasional Ding BAT

…I can semi relate to the owner of this garage sale little prize.

Bowl bought for $3 sells for more than $2 million at NY auction

A New York family scored a huge payday when a small bowl, which they bought at a garage sale for $3, turned out to be a 1,000-year old Chinese piece that sold for $2.2 million at Sotheby’s yesterday. The family bought the rare bowl at the secondhand sale in 2007, and kept it sitting on their mantle for years, the auction house said.

…He beat four other bidders for the Northern Song dynasty bowl — known as a Ding bowl — which dates back to the 10th or 11th century.

But it doesn’t make no never mind any way. Unbesmirched things crack, chip, break and stain the second they hit my house as it is, leaving us to sing, “Don’t mean it’s not Ming if it ain’t got a ding! Doowop, doowop, doowop, doowop, bop!”

One Response to “Being Known as an Inveterate Bargain Hunter, Collector of One-Too-Many Bowls and Occasional Ding BAT”

1. Kathy Kinsley says:

   March 20, 2013 at 8:34 pm

   I suspect the person who held that second hand sale will shortly be commiting suicide…

   As much as I’m joking, I’m also very serious. (AND unhappy about it.) If they were the original owners, they are Asian. And asian thinking works that way. Same goes for the reseller.