Gifts and Collectibles #5of8

A couple of miles from St. Remy, France, we saw the old Roman Monuments, which include The Mausoleum and the Commemorative Arch, etc., called “les Antiques.” At the town of St. Remy there was a flea market, and guess who bought another brass pot. There seems to be no limit. The pot is 12 inches in diameter at the top, 15 inches near the bottom, about 9 inches deep, with a nice copper handle. There are also signs of a repair job, at one point near the bottom of the pot.

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.

At the flea market in Frankfurt, Germany, we looked and looked and finally bought a radio/tape player, and yet another little copper pot. The pot is 7 inches high, 11 inches in diameter at the top, about 13 inches near the bottom, and has two heavy brass handles.

In Veules les Roses, France, near the English Channel, Emmy acquired an old, copper tea kettle. If she could remember what it cost, she thinks it may have been a bargain.”

In Ribeauville, in the French Alsace, in an antique store we have visited several times, Emmy bought a little wooden foot-stool, about 10 inches by 14 inches and 8 inches high, with tapestry fabric on the top. We didn’t say all this was great wonderful stuff, we just say, “We have it, and we like it .”

At Cavallino, on the peninsula north of Venice, Italy, between Punta Sabbioni and Jesolo, we bought several small brass items, and found a chicken bar-b-que place and bought the last two. Chickens, that is. One pot was a very heavy, brass, 6 inches in diameter, 3 inches high, with a fancy bail handle. The other is just like that one, but much smaller.