So, what are we? A French ‘Brocante’ perhaps, although this is always inadequately translated in English as either junk shop, second hand shop or worse. A brocante is a place where you can find your treasures, be they expensive or cheap, in good condition or needing repairs, staid and stylish or unusual and quirky; treasures to link our past to our future.
In this, we hope we have succeeded, as the shop is now nearing its 50th anniversary in Townsville, and with the newest member of our team, Tristan (who brings lots of new knowledge and interest) coming on board five years ago we hope we will keep going a bit longer.
We have solid silver pieces, fine china, crystal, jewellery and all the traditional ‘Antiques’, but we also deal in costume jewellery, in vinyls vintage technology such as cameras and typewriters, and ephemera such as comics, old magazines, packs of cards, and general memorabilia.