
The Brass Dog Nutcracker
Some dogs fetch sticks. This handsome fellow handles walnuts and looks good doing it. A weighty Texas conversation piece with an honest old patina.
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Est. 2010 Weatherford, Texas
The junkyard sells happiness.
Old and rusty stuff is what we like here at the junkyard. These pieces already lived a life. We are just the Weatherford chapter.
Fresh out of the yard
Vintage only. The pieces that already had a life. These six are live on Etsy. Tap one and you are in the listing.

Some dogs fetch sticks. This handsome fellow handles walnuts and looks good doing it. A weighty Texas conversation piece with an honest old patina.
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A clamshell tray with a coral inspired handle and enough character to make loose change feel collected. The little shell feet are showing off, as they should.
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A little glass dome full of roses, sentiment, and Victorian determination. It keeps papers down and expectations politely high.
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A hand carved sunflower box ready for rings, secrets, or that one button you refuse to throw away. Sensible behavior, really.
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A signed 1962 fruit still life in an oak frame. The fruit has lasted sixty years without going soft, which is more than most of us can claim.
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A proper little silverplate cruet set for salt, mustard, and pepper. Dinner may still be Tuesday leftovers, but the table need not know.
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The aisles
Eleven aisles of other people’s perfectly good stuff. Brass, boxes, cast iron, and a few other places worth wandering into.
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The junkyard gospel
Around here, the good stuff comes with worn corners, a useful past, and enough character to earn a second trip home.
We pick the pieces that already had a job. Boxes that kept letters, bells that ran a shop, lamps that lit a hallway nobody remembers. Then we send them on. That is the whole business plan, plus packing peanuts.
Old and rusty is a personality type around here. If you came looking for factory fresh, the mall is that way. If you came looking for happiness with a patina, pull up a crate.
Ships from Weatherford, Texas. Kinder to the planet, and to your porch.

Notes from the yard
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A wooden box, a glass bottle, something brass, and a space still waiting. A collection can take its time and look better for it.
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The shop lives on Etsy. The stories live on Instagram and Pinterest. The coupon lives in your pocket once you copy it. We recommend all four, in that order, with coffee.