Out of the Blue

Battered, scuffed and missing half its lock, this little blue jewellery box holds treasure I found the other day at my favourite antiques fair.



The blue kept turning up everywhere I looked.

A tattered card of tiny blue glass buttons, made in czechslovakia.

A dazzling paste brooch with

vibrant blue stones.

A Rosary with pale blue glass beads and what looks like a silver cross.

The sweetest chipped enamel horseshoe brooch, with a pair of love birds perched in the centre.

Was I blue? Not at all.