The hoarder confesses

I love flea markets, charity shops, antique stores and the like. I'm always on the look out for things that can fit in to my medievalist hobby. Throughout the years the hoard has grown, and I just can't stop gathering! I often lend people stuff when they've forgotten for example their feast great. Trust me, you don't have to worry if you by accident break it, I really, really have more....

Often people ask where I get it from, and sometimes how I know what's good and what's not. It all comes down to getting a feel for what might work, both from an aesthetic point of view and from the historic corrected ness view. Look at reproductions, look at paintings and drawings, trawl through the museum image data base. Then you hopefully will have that 'third eye' for what looks good.

I started to take pictures of all my stuff, and boy, there were some. So now I plan to share images of my successful hunts, just to show what may be found in a Swedish "Loppis"

Bowls:

These are the  replicas bought at different places over time, and one more is coming....

And this is the original, a 16th century bowl from the mining village at the silver mine in Sala, Sweden.