22 stores · curated ORBIS register
Signed baseballs and induction-weekend memorabilia define Baseball Nostalgia, which has served collectors in Cooperstown since 1974. Its stock includes Hall of Fame postmarked cachets and vintage card sets, giving collectors several forms of paper material. Milan's Cavalli e Nastri takes vintage into fashion, with a flagship on Via Gian Giacomo Mora following Claudia Jesi's retail work. Bangkok's Chatuchak Weekend Market combines vintage traders with independent craft and food stalls in a weekend market established in 1982.
Cooperstown
Selling baseball collectibles since 1974, Baseball Nostalgia specializes in autographed baseballs, postmarked Hall of Fame induction cachets and cards, press pins and vintage card sets. The shop caters to collectors chasing memorabilia tied to Cooperstown's induction weekends.
Best for Vintage collectibles, autographed baseballs, induction cachets
Milan / Online
Milan vintage-fashion boutique founded by Claudia Jesi (1946-2022), a pioneer of Italian vintage retail from the 1980s onward; its flagship sits on Via Gian Giacomo Mora, with further shops in Milan, Rome and Madrid.
Best for Italian couture vintage, archival accessories and tailored alterations
Cavalli e Nastri was founded by Claudia Jesi (1946-2022), widely credited as a founding figure of vintage-fashion retail in Italy, who began selling curated period clothing in Milan in the 1980s. The flagship sits on Via Gian Giacomo Mora, a side street off Corso di Porta Ticinese in central Milan; the business has since expanded to three Milan locations plus a Rome boutique and a Madrid location. The stock spans designer pieces from the 1950s through the 2000s - Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Valentino, and Giorgio Armani among them.
Chatuchak
Bangkok’s vast weekend market with thousands of independent craft, vintage, art and food traders.Established 1982.
Best for Thousands of independent craft, vintage, art
Chatuchak Weekend Market descends from a nationwide flea-market initiative launched by Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram, who in the early 1940s ordered every Thai town to establish one as a tool for local economic development; Bangkok's version opened at Sanam Luang in 1942. Over the following decades the market was shuffled between sites — to the grounds of Saranrom Palace for roughly eight years, then to Sanam Chai, then back to Sanam Luang — before the municipal government settled it permanently at Chatuchak in 1982, a move timed to Bangkok's bicentennial year. Five years later, in 1987, a clocktower was built on the grounds to mark King Bhumibol Adulyadej's sixtieth birthday, and it remains the market's best-known visual landmark and orientation point today. What began as a modest economic-development project has since become one of the largest markets of its kind anywhere: current estimates put its stall count above 15,000 across a maze of covered sections, drawing roughly 200,000 visitors on a typical weekend. That scale means Chatuchak now functions less as a single market than as an entire self-contained shopping district, organized loosely by category — antiques, clothing, plants, pets, food — spread across a footprint large enough that first-time visitors are routinely advised to plan a specific route rather than attempt to see it all in one visit.
Jew Town Road, Mattancherry
Crafters occupies a converted spice warehouse on Jew Town Road in Mattancherry, dealing in antiques and curios sourced from across India — brass-inlaid jewelry boxes, Chinese jars, colonial-era furniture and architectural salvage. Founded in 1989 by brothers Sunny and Johny Malayil, the family now runs six shops in the area holding more than 100,000 individual pieces.
Best for Antiques, curios and colonial furniture
Jew Town, Mattancherry
Fine Art Emporium has traded antiques from Jew Town in Mattancherry since 1986, dealing in handpicked furniture, metalwork and handicrafts for collectors, interior designers and museums. The shop arranges export documentation for international buyers alongside its walk-in trade.
Best for Antique furniture and metalwork
Saint-Germain / 6th
Saint-Germain gallery opened in 1982 by François Laffanour and Mara Cremniter on rue de Seine, specializing in furniture by 20th-century architects — Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Royère. Holds the archives of the former Galerie Steph Simon (1956–1974).
Best for Collectible French modernist furniture
François Laffanour and Mara Cremniter opened the Downtown gallery on rue de Seine in Paris's Saint-Germain quarter in 1982, at a time when furniture designed by architects rather than furniture-makers was still a little-explored corner of the market. Laffanour took over running the gallery alone in 1992 and has continued to lead it since, building a reputation as one of the market's specialists in architectural furniture from the mid-20th century onward — pieces made by architects who, working in the decades after the Second World War, brought a functional, freedom-oriented approach to furnishing interiors. The gallery represents and deals in work by figures including Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Royère, and Matthieu Matégot. It also holds the archives of the former Galerie Steph Simon, which from 1956 to 1974 represented furniture by Perriand, Prouvé, Le Corbusier, Serge Mouille, Georges Jouve, and Isamu Noguchi, giving Laffanour's gallery a direct historical link to that earlier program. Laffanour, born in 1952 in El Biar, has worked in the design and antiques trade for over four decades and is regularly described in trade press as a leading figure in the market for 20th- and 21st-century architect-designed furniture. The gallery continues to mount exhibitions from its Saint-Germain address and takes part in international design and art fairs such as PAD.
City Centre
Jenny Vander is a vintage clothing and costume jewellery shop at 50 Drury Street in Dublin 2, established in 1974. Nine cabinets hold jewellery sorted by colour, and the clothing centres on evening and cocktail dresses made before 1960. Only true vintage is sold, with no reproductions, and stock changes weekly. There is no website, so buying means visiting the shop in person.
Best for Designer vintage clothing and costume jewellery
Jenny Vander sells vintage clothing and costume jewellery from 50 Drury Street in Dublin 2. The Shopkeepers records the shop as established in 1974 and notes there is no website, so a visit in person is required. Visit Dublin describes nine jewellery cabinets in which pieces are arranged by colour, and states that only true vintage is sold, with no reproductions. The clothing leans toward evening and cocktail dresses made before 1960, along with shawls and stoles, beaded tops and jackets. DublinTown puts it as statement dresses for a woman of 1925 onward, decade by decade, with cases of costume jewellery that often come as complete sets of earrings and necklace with a matching bracelet. Stock changes weekly. Stylists are frequent visitors, and The Shopkeepers lists the shop in its Ireland selections for 2023 and 2024, adding that international stylists have dressed clients in looks bought here. Ball gowns are a particular strength, and the shop trades under the Jenny Vander name on Instagram.
107 Ocean Avenue, Kennebunkport, Maine
John F. Rinaldi has dealt in nautical antiques from Kennebunkport since 1972, issuing 38 illustrated catalogs of scrimshaw, ship carvings, figureheads, navigating instruments, and marine paintings over that span. The gallery specializes in authenticating whalebone and ivory scrimshaw alongside broader maritime collectibles.
Best for Antique scrimshaw and maritime collectibles
Chiltern Street / Marylebone, London
John Simons opened the Ivy Shop in Richmond in 1964 and first labelled the Baracuta G9 a Harrington jacket in 1965. The shop moved to 46 Chiltern Street in Marylebone in 2011 and sells its own collections alongside Baracuta and Paraboot, with Jamieson's of Shetland. Vintage pieces sit with the new stock, as they did at the Covent Garden shop from 1982.
Best for Ivy League menswear, Harrington jackets and Baracuta G9s from the man who named them
John Simons began in 1955 as a window dresser for Cecil Gee, then a prominent name in British menswear. After selling from a market stall in Hackney he opened Clothesville on Mare Street in 1963, a shop that dressed the mod scene. The Ivy Shop followed in Richmond in the summer of 1964. In 1965 Simons recognised the Baracuta G9 as the jacket worn by the character Rodney Harrington, and his shop's label became the first documented use of the term Harrington jacket. The Squire Shop opened on King's Road in 1967 with co-founder Stuart Malloy, and in 1982 J. Simons opened on Russell Street in Covent Garden, early in its approach to selling vintage goods. The storefront moved to No. 46 Chiltern Street in Marylebone in 2011. The rails today mix the house's own collections with Baracuta and J. Press, with G.H. Bass and Paraboot and Jamieson's of Shetland alongside. The shop presents itself as the reference for Ivy League style in Britain, filtered through a mid-century American and European eye, and vintage pieces still hang beside the new stock.
Honfleur
Run by Anne and Danielle Bourdette since 1974, La Brocanterie on cours des Fosses in Honfleur blends antique furniture and objects with a decoration department and an upstairs gallery of Normandy painters and sculptors. Open most days, it mixes armoires, mirrors, luminaires, and artists' pieces across a warren of themed rooms.
Best for Antiques, decoration, art-gallery
Bordeaux / France
Le Centre Ville Antiquités has traded antiques and presented art in Bordeaux since 1980.
Best for Antiques and art
Moreton In Marsh / United Kingdom
Established in 1979 on Moreton-in-Marsh High Street, this Cotswold antiques centre gathers around twenty dealers across a warren of furnished units and display cabinets. Shoppers browse everything from Georgian oak and militaria to vinyl records, weighing scales and costume jewellery under one roof.
Best for Antiques, collectables, vintage, furniture
Mahone Bay / Canada
Established by Bill Lutwick in 1984 at Indian Point, this Mahone Bay yard builds and restores wooden sail and power boats up to 53 feet. Work spans new yacht interiors, vintage restorations, and custom masts and rigging.
Best for Boatbuilding, wooden boats, yacht restoration
Gemeentestraat 8, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium
Three-generation Antwerp family shop, founded in 1973, for secondhand designer fashion and accessories for women, men and children.
Best for Broad, family-run designer resale across womenswear, menswear and childrenswear.
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool
Founded in 1971 and long a proving ground for Liverpool's post-punk and indie scenes, Probe Records now trades from a unit inside the Bluecoat arts centre in the city centre. It stocks new and secondhand vinyl across genres and remains a fixture of the city's music heritage, having outlasted several changes of address over five decades.
Best for Vinyl records and Liverpool music heritage
Claremont, Cape Town
Secondhand Rose, established in 1971, describes itself as the longest and oldest running second-hand ladies clothing shop in Cape Town. The shop at Shop 8, Grove on the Square, Warwick Street, Claremont, sells vintage clothing spanning the pre-1990s era alongside brands such as Country Road, Ferragamo, Fendi, Chanel, Gucci and Burberry.
Best for Vintage and designer secondhand clothing
Varanasi
Silk Kothi, established in 1969 in Varanasi and run through three generations of master weavers, hand-weaves Banarasi sarees in Katan silk, Puna silk, khaddi georgette, organza and tussar silk through design, weave and finish stages, with collections including Vintage Evergreen and Royal Meenakari.
Best for Hand-woven Banarasi silk sarees
Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Founded in 1976, Sofa Art & Antiques has built its name on a curated stock of Ottoman and Anatolian paintings, sculpture, calligraphy, jewelry, and ceramics rather than volume antiques-market inventory. The shop operates from Şahkulu Seraskerci Çıkmazı in Beyoğlu and ships internationally through its own multilingual site.
Best for Curated Ottoman and Anatolian antiques
Paris / Online
Paris vintage-luxury boutique in the Triangle d'Or near Hermes, Chanel and Louis Vuitton's flagship stores, trading since 1987 with roughly 5,000 pieces on hand. Hermes and Chanel items are authenticated in-house by checking stitching, hardware stamps and date codes.
Best for Collector-grade authenticated vintage Chanel and Hermès
Valois Vintage has traded in Paris's Triangle d'Or - the luxury district near the flagship stores of Hermes, Chanel and Louis Vuitton - since 1987, making it one of the longer-established vintage-luxury dealers in the city. The boutique holds a large rotating inventory, cited at around 5,000 pieces spanning bags, ready-to-wear, jewelry and shoes from major design houses. Its authentication process examines construction quality, materials, hardware and stitching across brands; for Hermes specifically, specialists check leather grain, saddle stitching, hot-stamped markings, logo typography, closures, and date stamps. The shop also lists internationally through platforms such as 1stDibs.
Maastricht / Netherlands
A family-owned Maastricht antiques shop since 1968, Van Eyck deals in original silver, glass, ceramics, sculpture and decorative art. Pieces can be bought in the Boschstraat store or through its online webshop, and the shop also buys and sells on consignment.
Best for Antiques, collectibles, silver, glass
2 bis Avenue de l'Égalité (Quai de la Gare), L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Housed in a converted 3,000-square-metre silk mill by the old train station, this antiques village has gathered dealers under one roof since 1978 and now shelters more than 80 exhibitors trading in furniture, decorative objects and collectibles from every era. An upper-floor gallery space called Nouvel VAG adds contemporary and numbered works by emerging artists alongside the antiques trade below.
Best for Browsing dozens of antique dealers in one historic building
Cuba Street
Ziggurat has sold vintage fashion on Wellington’s Cuba Street since 1980, alongside selected contemporary labels and consignment. The long-running shop is strongest for one-off clothing and accessories with a more curated edit than a general thrift store.
Best for Wellington vintage fashion since 1980
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