knickknack

The next few hours were a flurry of vacuuming and dusting as my mother chain-smoked her way through the house rearranging knickknacks.

Nearly 175 of Capone’s personal items will be auctioned off as his granddaughters seek to share the stories behind his knickknacks, photographs and guns.

The girls helped to make the cave more homelike, and the lads appreciated every decoration and knickknack given them.

“Perhaps one or two smaller things, a knickknack or two,” he moaned.

He well represented the spirit and workmanship of the eighteenth century in the knickknack art of the Second Empire.