The Lorraine Lynch Auction

I hope this link works...it's a listing of what was at this auction.  AND YOU CANNOT BELIEVE IT...

 https://stenzelauction.hibid.com/catalog/241214/lorraine-lynch-trust-and-others/

Bert and I got there about 30 minutes before the sale started. The very first thing to go was two racks of coats...leather, fur, fake fur, real mink, many size 2X -- and, like so many things at this auction -- about 80% of them still had the TAGS on them.  The real furs went for over $200...so did the brand new Lands End puffy coat...(price tag: $450)...

Jana (auctioneer)

If Lorraine liked something, she bought three or four of the thing (or maybe a dozen)

Her initial or monogram was on EVERYTHING.

Everybody was wearing masks, and more or less following the arrows (showing which way to traffic up and down the aisles). 

 

In the main selling room, where the "primo" stuff was -- there were very few chairs...couples sat together, but otherwise, everybody was 6' apart. 

I have always known you learn a lot about a person when you attend their estate sale.  

 

Lorraine Lynch was rich....she loved to shop, and she had dogs.  Yellow labs.  She watched too much television (6 huge smart tvs), she almost never cooked (complete sets of pans from Cuisinart, Caphalon and Rachel Ray -- all of them like new).   She had a passion for wine (wine glasses, bottles of wine, wine refrigerators, wine holders,wine plaques, etc.).  She was short (7 identical step-stools with the handle on the side)....and overweight (8 different scales -- three tall ones, like you find at the YMCA)....

 

Besides the MacKenzie Childs stuff (which was everywhere -- what's shown online is only about 1/4 of what was actually being sold). she LOVED Vera Bradley.  There were at least 20 various purses, billfolds, totebags, luggage tags, passport holders, etc. -- as well as three different sets of luggage -- all still in plastic.  

 

There were at least ten laptop computers -- along with 14 Apple Pens (still in the boxes).  

 

Lorraine LOVED,LOVED,LOVED her own name,as she had it monogrammed on EVERYTHING. Towels, sheets, totebags, purses, luggage...

The auctioneer said she had an elevator in her house, and, even more remarkable -- a swimming pool in her basement.

UNBELIEVABLE...

There were three huge rooms at the auction house -- all filled TO THE BRIM.  They started right at 10:00, and there were always two rings going.  At Noon, they went outside to sell the two cars.  At one point, I said to Jana..."Lorraine Lynch should've had her own zipcode."

If you look at the Auction site -- Lot 41C was a "MacKenzie Childs Bauble Lamp". It was brand new, in the box -- all the baubles wrapped separately in their MacKenzie Childs tissue paper...carefully placed in the box, with all the little cardboard dividers. here's a picture of what the lamp looks like after assembly...

I have NO IDEA what it would cost new -- but I'm pretty sure $200 was a bargain...

Bert got a whole flat of leather purses for $10 -- and she was thrilled. (she has a booth at an antique mall.)

My first purchase was a dog rug (more about that later)...but my BIG SCORE OF THE DAY WAS -- OF COURSE -- WAIT FOR IT...DRUMROLL....

QUEEN SIZE SHEETS. 

I'm telling you -- if bidding at an auction was an Olympic Event, I'd be a gold-medal winner...