Souvenirs d'antiquaire, Exporting french Antiques to America

Strasbourg, France, 33 rue des Bouchers -

A few shots of almost 28 years of exporting French antiques to the United States.

Such a passionate experience: browsing in the East of France for finding antiques, wrapping the furniture, loading it inside the container, and then the huge crossing through the ocean toward USA.

One thing is not shown here, but it is the most important: the fantastic friendship's links I have built, through all these years, with my American clients in Boston, Chicago, California, Alabama, and Florida. This was fun...

I wanted to share this story with you :-)

My first beloved shop in Strasbourg, France - 33, rue des Bouchers

33 rue des Bouchers, Strasbourg, France

Carré des Antiquaires, 18, rue de l'Ardèche, Strasbourg, France

My best memories of these long years of french antique export business - besides the strong friendship built with my American antique shop's dealers : browsing for their specific needs throughout the french provinces to visit pickers and dealers - together with my father or my mother.

Sharing fun - and stress - with my father during my first antique fair.

My best memories of these long years of french antique export business: browsing for their specific needs throughout the french provinces to visit pickers and dealers - together with my father or my mother.

Browsing trips among small brocantes and pickers in wide East of France areas for finding the specific needs of my US antique dealers' clients - Long hours of drive, always with my father Roger Dambron who had so much fun, specially the day he made a tour inside an authentic Taxi de la Marne car of the WW1 !

World War One "Taxi de la Marne" which went brought to the battlefront.

The tough work : Wrapping and storing the antiques bought before the shipping : such an amount of cardboard and tapes - and days of wrapping labor.

Eventually, the shipping : from the 45' feet high ceiling shipped to an auction house in Texas, to the multiple 40' feet and 20' containers : needless to say that each time, it was stressful to load each package of fragile piece of furniture safely. I had been very lucky that my family was happy to help !

Good work done !

Avant : ma vie aux Etats-Unis

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