I’m hooked on going to yard sales and thrift stores. I have to watch my quarters and am really out of space in my RV. Yet I go anyway as there’s something interesting about other people’s stuff and what they collect. Plus I can usually find a good buy.
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Just some of the good stuff
At a local sale I discovered much really cool old stuff that I highly admire but have no space for, chairs, boxes, toboggans, the rusty shroud of a David Bradley tractor and a marvelous old solid wood wardrobe closet which my friend bought. Then nestled into a plastic tub I spot what looked like a very old clay pot, maybe Yavapai at 800+ years found near Hillside AZ. It’s actually broken in about half which reveals the fine temper in the thin walls. Finger prints still exist on the inside. It was like I could feel the love put into its making. Had to have it. And now it resides next to a metate, or grinding stone, another Native American artifact from the Flagstaff area that I bought at a yard sale a few years ago.
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Clay pot ~18×24″
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Metate with mano & clay pot
(black pot in far back not old)
Wow! That was a really good find. Did you get it for a really good price? I once got a pair of real opal earrings for 25 cents!
I am curious about your Yavapai Clay Pot. I am Yavapai from Ft. McDowell and am curious about coming to look at the pot. Please let me know thank you