More Brass and Copper
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Emmy really liked the flea market in Nijmegan, The Netherlands. (We’ll let you know if we find a flea market she doesn’t like!) Raining all the time. A large part of Nijmegan’s market was filled with fruit and flowers, and Emmy found a smoked mackerel fish for 85 cents — delicious, she later reported!
After we were in the camper and ready to leave town, we had to find another parking place, then run through the rain to get this brass coffee pot she can’t live without — not for coffee, just for because. With a little polish and a lot of elbow grease, this pot shines as bright as you can imagine.
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At the flea market in Nijmegan Emmy bought a small brass planter with blue ceramic handles
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A few miles from Fougéres, France, we stopped in a nice Brocante/antique shop, and bought two large copper trivets. One about 12 inches in diameter, and the other an oval 10 by 14 inches or so. The lady said they were from the 1920’s or 1930’s.
As the lady proudly pointed at the beautiful antiques in her store, I pointed to the Visa Card imprinter and asked, “Antique?” She laughed and said, “No, pratique.”
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On our way to the Matterhorn, we drove from Switzerland, across Italy and, arrived in Domodossola, Italy, at nap time. We saw a store with a lot of beautiful brass items on display, and a Master Charge sign on the door. After the store opened in mid-afternoon, and after collecting a great pile of these items, we found they had no idea what the Master Charge sign in the window meant. We found that the sign remained on the door from the previous owner of a store in this very same place. These new store owners had no idea what it meant, or why we cared.
We put back most of our selection, and bought what we could with the rest of our Italian money and a couple of travelers’ checks. There were two very heavy, thick brass trays about 9 by 15 inches. One of the trays was given as a gift to someone, my Sweetie did that all the time.
We also bought a little brass pitcher (below) with a big handle.
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In Tangiers, Morocco, in North Africa, we bought two round brass trays, trimmed in copper, brass, and a silver colored metal, nickel perhaps. They are old trays, actually used in a Moroccan restaurant (perhaps), not just ‘distressed’ to look old.” One tray is 17 inches in diameter, the other 19 inches.
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