French Outdoor Antique Show

[Seville]

My best friend retired to a tiny village about 1 1/2 hours outside of Paris a few years back. He and his wife love to go to the vide grenier {a kind of village garage sale that is organized by the powers that be}. Now each town gets one sale a year and my friends will organize outings each weekend to go to as many sales as they can.

We have done this with them when we are over visiting but this year I sent him on a mission for pens. Thus far he hasn't found much but yesterday he sent me these two pics just to make me jealous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sigh.....

 

 

Philip

 

 

edit for spelling

Edited June 22, 2009 by Seville

[Fernan]

a very deep sigh... wishing I could... just dreaming of it...

[Kimo]

A very nice selection. From what I can see in the photos the seller's booth it looks like he is a regular vintage pen dealer so I am sure there will be very few if any bargains as he seems to know his business. If you go to any of the larger pen shows in the U.S. you will see hundreds of booths like this. If anything his prices are likely to be higher than normal since he has no competition. Also, if his prices were bargains you would not see so many really nice pens in his inventory - they would all be sold.

[Silvermink]

I can has it?

[rwilsonedn]

A very nice selection. From what I can see in the photos the seller's booth it looks like he is a regular vintage pen dealer so I am sure there will be very few if any bargains as he seems to know his business. If you go to any of the larger pen shows in the U.S. you will see hundreds of booths like this. If anything his prices are likely to be higher than normal since he has no competition. Also, if his prices were bargains you would not see so many really nice pens in his inventory - they would all be sold.

For someone pretty much confined to dealing via eBay until I found FPN, a seller who knows his business is in himself a bargain...

ron

[PaulLeMay]

Oh I am so jealous.

 

I happened to be in Europe a few weeks ago and went to one flea market in Belgium, but saw no pens. I just bought one old bottle of Pelikan washable blue ink. That was especially nice after my recent incident between Parker Quink and my favorite dress shirt!

[Elisablue]

Où est-il ? Qui est-il ?? The man aux mille plumes ? ....

 

*sigh*

 

Oh dear ... I will have to roam all the "vide-greniers" and there are hundreds of them going on everywhere in the summer over here ..

 

 

 

 

Edited July 16, 2009 by Elisablue

[eilu]

Ah, I feel like Sinbad looking down the valley of diamonds!