On Friday I played hooky from work so that my husband and I could go to the Brimfield Antique Show. We try to make it out there at least once every year. It’s always an adventure. There’s so much to look at, from old stained-glass windows to vintage toys and memorabilia, from Fiesta ware and carnival glass to antique furniture and weird objects made out of reclaimed materials. They have it all. It’s hard to separate the trash from the treasure. Indeed, it’s hard to focus at all. The senses get overwhelmed, but in a good way. And always there is the hope of finding something absolutely priceless.
Most of the stuff is out of our league price-wise, but we always find a few things to bring home with us. This time I bought some vintage brooches.
Vintage Brooches
The snake is the weirdest and most expensive of the lot, and probably also the oldest. It might date from as far back as the 1960s.
Snake Brooch
And here is another thing we bought.
This rooster isn’t exactly old, but the man who sold it to us said that it was made from Mexican oil drums, so it isn’t exactly new either. I’m not sure where the seller was originally from, but he had wonderful accent, maybe German. It’s good that we took the time to talk to him, because he had some important advice for taking care of the rooster. He said, “Vinter inside, zen spring outside. Vinter is too much rust. Don’t put ze rooster in ze grass or his feet rust. On ze stone rooster last 40, 50 years.”