By P. Linh, VietNamNet Bridge
Collection of antique
This market opens every Saturday morning for those who love old things.
Located in the small slope at Alley 456 on Hoang Hoa Tham Street, Hanoi, the market stretches the space of just a few hundred square meters of Lu tea shop. Although it has not been heavily advertised but since the market’s opening in June, every Saturday morning, hundreds of people flock to the market to admire, exchange, buy and sell second-hand items and antiques which they have painstakingly collected.
The market has over 20 “booths” or actually 20 tables of only over 1m2 each or pieces of plastics spreading out on the ground. On these tables and plastic pieces are thousands of items of all kinds, which are not arranged in groups.
Here, one can find loads of everything from antiques to junk, from items originating in different historical periods to the things that are introduced to come from the subsidy period such as crockery, vases, oil lamps, watches, desk phones, irons, copper trays, glasses, lights, old banknotes, water containers, canteens, aluminum spoons and bowls and coins of Vietnam and other countries, old magazines and pictures of Hanoi.
At this market, the sellers do not have to pay fees while the buyers can come for free.
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