Brass Items 3 of 5

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We arrived at the “dig” at Glanum at nap time, just like we did the other times we were here. We could look through the fence and see enough for now. Glanum dates from 500 BC, and they have been excavating since 1921. Across the road, we saw the old Roman Monuments, which includes The Mausoleum, and the Commemorative Arch, etc., called “les Antiques,” just a couple of miles from St. Remy. At the town of St. Remy there was a flea market, and guess who bought another brass pot. Seems to be no limit!
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1476

While we visited Emmy’s cousins Gerd and Monika in Nauborn, Germany, we went to the flea market in nearby Wetzlar, and would you believe it, Emmy acquired another brass pot. Jim found a set of six table forks that are nice, and much cheaper and easier to carry than a brass pot The forks rusted and were thrown out, but the pot remains.
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1481

Well, here’s another anonymous item. Don’t know for sure where Emmy bought this one, but I think — but am not sure — it was in The Netherlands.
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1487

One year we attended the street market, complete with “fleas,” held at Cavallino, Italy, on the peninsula, between Punta Sabbioni and Jesolo, just north of Venice. This market went on for a mile on both sides of the street and in the market square of the town. Italian street markets often consist of trucks set up as stores on wheels. The sides of these trucks are unfurled, and there are plenty of shelves on which to display their wares. Shoe stores, kitchenware and gadgets, dresses, toys, hardware, the meat market, cheese store, bakery, fruit and vegetable dealers, fishmongers, antiques and “fleas,” and on and on.

Emmy bought a couple of small brass items, including this little bowl and another (a little larger) that she gave as a gift.