Selling Dead People's Things

Inexplicably True Tales, Vintage Fails & Objects of Objectionable Estates

Ranked #95 in Antiques

Selling Dead People’s Things is a wry, behind-the-curtain peek into the world of antiques and their obsessive owners—while still alive and after their passing.

An amusing observer of the human condition, author Duane Scott Cerny entertains in twenty-five life illuminating, scary, sad, or frightfully funny resale tales and essays.

“You just can’t say to the bereaved, ‘I’m sorry for your loss, but are those crucifixes for sale?’ (Well, you can, but it’s how you say it.)”

Whether processing the estate of a hoarding beekeeper, disassembling the retro remains of an...
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