Brass Boxes

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Emmy can spot a flea market anywhere. One time we were driving on I-90, across the wide open spaces of South Dakota on a Saturday morning when she picked up the map, pointed to a town-name and said, “Let’s get off the Interstate and see if they have a flea market.” Sure enough, their annual! once a year! flea market! How did she know!

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As we drove across the Denmark countryside we saw a large field filled with people and vehicles. Would you believe it, this part of Denmark’s annual, yes once a year and we are here, flea market! Walked all over the place and of course bought several things. Emmy is proud of the little (3” X 4” X 8”) brass box that was once used to sterilize needles, etc., by horse and buggy doctors years ago.

In another part of the flea market Emmy saw — but resisted — a box that was similar and much more expensive than the one she bought, but not nearly as pretty. Don’t know what material it was made of but it was silver colored, rather than brass. No, it wasn’t made of silver, of that I am sure.
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In 1980 drove around awhile on our way to downtown Berlin. We remember Bismarckstrasse as appearing to be wider than the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The street was so wide—with traffic lanes, parking, and more traffic.

Stopped at a flea market that was spread all over the place, and bought two of these little brass boxes. But, as happened with so many things she bought, my Sweetie gave them as gifts. Years later one friend gave this one back.
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Well it is larger, but it looks much like the one above. It depends on what you think of this place and that. Some people might think the place we bought this one, was as nice a place to visit as Berlin. Well, we bought it at the weekend Flea Market held in the College of the Desert parking lot in Palm Desert, California.