Brass Items 4 of 5

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In Carcassonne, France, Emmy managed to find a cute something (other than the driver) on which to spend her money. It took awhile to make up her mind to buy a coffee(?) pot in copper with brass trim. It’s supposed to hold one and one/half liters of something besides air, and they said it was made in France in the late 1800’s. The shiny “hammered” copper pot is about 13 inches high to the top of the lid handle, and has a brass handle and spout. On the bottom it says, 1 1/2 with the letter “Z” next to a quarter-inch circle with two fish headed in opposite directions. That must be the manufacturer’s trade mark, but we don’t know what it really means. Up to now all it has held is some phony flowers, but if that’s what Emmy calls useful, then it’s useful.
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1489

In Carcassonne, France, we saw the antique store where Emmy bought that copper coffee pot several years earlier. After we stopped for a Coke and ice cream at an outside cafe, Emmy did find another little brass object she couldn’t resist. It is a 4 inch round, 2 inch high box with a lid, all woven of alternating 1/2 inch wide brass and copper strips.
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Covent Gardens in London, England, had been the location of the fruit and vegetable market for London. The charming buildings in Covent Gardens have been converted into tourist shops and restaurants, the most interesting of this kind of development we have seen in any city in any country, and we have seen many. We did find a nice heavy brass kettle that we couldn’t resist. The pot is 7 inches high, 8 inches in diameter at the top, 6 1/2 inches at the bottom, with a bail handle. There is an interesting scar/scratch on one side.

The pot looks a like a miniature of the huge cast-iron pots used years ago to make apple butter, and to render lard on butcher day. There are three little legs on our pot, like the legs on the big cast-iron pots that I remember from years ago.