The Art Of The Auction It’s a frosty Saturday morning inside a pole barn tucked in the hills near Paonia. Antique furniture crowds the walls, along with taxidermy, highway signs and vintage bikes. Soft light reflects off dusty gilt-edge mirrors. Card tables are piled with tools and records, cigar boxes filled with old brochures, tarnished belt buckles, Ziplock bags of doll parts and postage stamps. A lamp base made of petrified wood. A ceramic monkey smoking a cigar.