Photo and Text by Corey Amaro
A pair of doll house candlesticks, on an old handwritten letter, surrounded by a frame with flowers on the corners.
Little things found at the brocante. Bits and pieces tattered, torn, broken… that someone kept for one reason or another. Maybe they thought they would repair them one day, maybe a sweet memory was attached to the object which kept it from the garbage. Maybe these little things gave inspiration, or then again maybe these things were put in a box and forgotten. Who knows why these old things were kept….. but I am glad that they were.
Two silver buttons on a piece of mercury glass.
Blue lace with pearls resting on a piece of fabric that used to be for covering a mattress.
A burlap bag of handmade clay marbles. A series of antique paperback books. Tin stars used for military costumes, candles wrapped in old love letters…let it burn.
Blue satin ribbon, extra wide roll.
One side of the quilt was a simple print. Nobody seemed to notice it until the antique dealer unfolded it.
Old printed paper trimmed with a pink ribbon, torn from a book. I did not do it….
A bunch of old leather books. I found them one by one over the years at the brocante. I wanted them to have a tad of black, with gilded numbers. Finally I stacked them haphazardly in the book shelf. Then I took a photo and put it on my blog.
Old books here and there,
found in France.
Gathered for a photo.
Image discovered by someone who restores old books who wanted to use the image for advertisement purposes.
No money involved.
Two people who love old things pass it on.
Thank you Rare Book Restoration….
How do you give your old things a new chapter ?
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