An Overview of Antique, Salvage and French Reclamation Items
posted on 5 January 2012 | posted in
Home and Garden
The general situation in rural France regarding old items (old stuff!) has until relatively recently been to make do and mend. Any item, be it a tractor, a chair or a wardrobe, has had the requirement, over previous centuries, to keep it going.
In other countries, repairing broken items would have been deemed impractical, as easy and ready replacements were all too simple to buy and then one could get on get on with one's life.
In rural France however, the 'getting on with one's life' meant repairing and rebuilding items past down from one's parents or even grandparents. The situation has, over the previous decades or so, has started to change due to cheap and shiny goods arriving on the market stalls and in the local village shops from far flung countries. This has changed the way that rural French families perceive these once practical farmhouse items. They, as the rest of the world, are finding French reclamation items to be quaint, charming and rare, hence the price hike of old antique items at French flea-markets, auctions and sales. It will soon be almost impossible to find, buy and sell these once practical, well built and usable items for the prices we have all come to accept.
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