Stumbled on a pre-war pottery shard in my garden and it's blowing my mind

I was digging in my garden to plant flowers when I hit something hard. It turned out to be a broken piece of a bowl with a blue painted edge. I almost tossed it, but I washed it off and saw a tiny stamp on the bottom. A quick search on my phone showed it's from a pottery that shut down in the 1930s. Now I keep thinking about who ate from this bowl in my house decades ago. It's weird to hold a piece of daily life from before World War II. This has made me see my whole yard as a potential dig site. I never knew archaeology could feel so personal and close to home.

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