looking at all kind of curiosities: old-fash- ioned costumes and hats, brooches, vases, glasses, silver spoons and forks, mirrors in pretentious frames. Prices in such antique shops vary from

looking at all kind of curiosities: old-fash- ioned costumes and hats, brooches, vases, glasses, silver spoons and forks, mirrors in pretentious frames. Prices in such antique shops vary from comparatively low to rather high.

;he so-called "boot fairs", or actually, flee narkets, that are regularly organized by ocal people in farmers' fields.

At boot fairs and small street antique narkets people sometimes sell and buy rery strange things like single old but-;ons and earrings, pieces of old lace,)ld lamps and sewing machines, etc. It;eems that both parties, sellers and customers, enjoy the process much nore than a financial result.

But at big street markets like on 'ortobello Road in London one can buy omething really original and quite ^raluable.

Outdoor antique markets are also very sommon in Britain. ТЬё simplest of them are

British people like visiting antique fairs. Hunting for old and valuable curiosities is a kind of national sport. Auctions, offering all sorts of inexpensive, expensive and very expensive antiques are also very popular.

sions, regu­larly shown on TV, are

Snooper's paradise" ("snuipaz.pseradais]

⁵ай для любопытного»

uriosity [.kjuari'osatil диковина, редкость

rooch [brautj] брошь

retentious [prrtenfas] претенциозный,

>1чурный

ame рама

boot fair ярмарка-продажа, на которой товары

продаются прямо с машин

flee market блошиный рынок

button [*Ьл№] пуговица

earring ('idrii)] серьга, сережка

lace кружево

sewing machine [.sauiQ ma Ji:n] стиральная машина

financial [fi(ai)'naenjl) финансовый Portobello Road [,po:tabelau raud] Портобелло-роуд (улииа в западной части Лондона)

valuable ['vasljuabl] ценный to hunt охотиться auction [*o:kJn] аукцион to store [sto:] хранить

imperatively [kam'paerativli] относительно customer ['kAStama] клиент, покупатель

For a foreigner, the most surprising are special outdoor sessions, organized by experts in antiques in different, sometimes very dis­tant parts of Britain. These ses­

very popu­lar. Indeed, it is a great fun to see happy faces of people, who sud­denly real­ized the real and some­times unex­pectedly high market price of some old piece of china that had been stored in a dark corner 4er years!

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