The base had an antiques auction a few months ago, and we were lucky enough to get a couple great items.
(Yes, I'm just now getting around to posting about it.)
This shelf is probably the coolest thing I had ever seen. It used to be a canoe and was transformed into this:
This is our pet 'ducket' - you know, it's a duck bucket - ducket! Actually, I think it's a goose, but lets not spoil it. Ben fell in love with it at a preview weeks before the auction and was determined to win it. So he did!
The glass balls are Japanese sea floats. Fishers use them as floats on their nets. A friend of ours here gave them to us - this is only half of them. Of all our collections, this is probably my favorite (or tied at least with the book collection).