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Worth a visit!
A villa, not too far from the centre.
In the garden, in a kind of shed and in a small building: a capharnaum of African antiques (real ones and copies), arts and crafts.
They can send what you buy at your address at a reasonable price if you are not in a hurry: it took 2 months to arrive at Othe.
The Lafon family has a good reputation and is supplying almost all African antique shops in Paris? where it?s between 10 and 50 times more expensive!
Serious.
What to buy: Masks, old furniture, jewels, potteries, statues made of wood, steel or bronze, paintings, fabrics (marvellous ones)...
You like the style or not, but the quality is rather good.
Masks and statues are copies: it's forbidden to export old genuine ones.
Prices are reasonable.
You can try to bargain a bit... but it's usually hopeless here.
What to pay: A fortune...
Written Mar 5, 2004
Phone: (226) 33 43 40
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You can actually buy anything you wish here:
a hat
an entire car or only parts
an entire bicycle or only parts
jewels
clothes or clocks
fabrics
food or shampoo
soap or soup
spices
radios
medicines (avoid)
a nail or two screws
girls
s***t or fruits
cigarettes or simply one cigarette.
What to buy: Whatever you wish, but bargain!
Method:
Ask his price to the shop keeper.
Insist because he will ask you how much you're ready to pay.
Once you know his price, divide it by 4.
Discuss.
Pretend you're living.
Let him call you back.
Finally accept at a third of the initial price.
You've paid too much.
And it's perfect like that: you are not ruined... and the shop keeper can feed his family for one day.
Written Mar 5, 2004
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