Category: Brocante
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Brocante E-mailing List
Thank you for following me here for these last several years, it has been such fun to find and offer you little treasures from the French brocantes, a passion of mine these last twenty-five years that has never caused me a…
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Brocante Finds
As I go to the brocantes in France several times a month the questions I am often asked are: What can you find? What are you looking for? Is there anything left? Have the prices gone up? Can…
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French Antique Guessing Game
It has been awhile since I had a French antique guessing game, but today seemed like a good day to restart, so here it is the first of the new year. I found these three silver pieces attached…
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Lisbon Tiles of Love
"Elaborately-painted Portuguese tiles called azulejos, fell out of favor in the early 20th Century. But Lisbon today is embracing the art in its murals, museums and metro stations. Azulejos first came to Portugal in the 15th Century, when parts of the…
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Old Books from the Brocante
As they are worn beautifully. Stories repeated often of God, King, Country, War, Peace and eventually the words fall here and there leaving emotions to sort through. The stories rarely change, maybe a paragraph here and there, maybe a…
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The Latest Victim of the Brocante Bug Bite
Do you see him?? What is happening? He is actually looking for things. A new year is coming, and a new brocanteur on the rise! …