The Treasures of San Telmo - Buenos Aires

San Telmo is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires.

With cobblestone streets, graceful old houses with deep courtyards and arcades.

A famous antiques market every Sunday

on the Plaza Borrego.

Clustered around the Plaza are gorgeous atmospheric cafes and the kind of high end antiques stores

that you will find in most major cities.  But what I like poking around in

and which it still seems relatively easy to find in Buenos Aires, are the kinds of things that average people used to have

which were a part of ordinary 19th and early 20th century middle class lives, daily life, domestic life, childhood.

I'm pretty convinced I didn't live in a palace in a previous life.  That's o.k.  I like the regular old stuff.