Kim went to a large flea market in Florida and saw truckloads of reproductions of Gothic windows and large troughs. Also offered were iron baskets for a garden, iron frogs and mermaids to decorate a house or yard, nautical key holders and five pointed stars to attach to the side of the house. The Amish claimed that the stars brought good luck. They became popular after the Civil War and were extremely popular by the 1930s.