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  Shop

  Meet Christian Leyva Jorge, who owns a shop on a side street off the main drag of Calle Sagarnaga. As we stood surrounded by shelves packed to the brim with silver and Incan pottery, Christian told us how he was living in a small village in the department of Potosí, when a traveling antiques-dealer with a beautiful daughter came to town. Instantly smitten, Christian and the antique dealer’s daughter were soon married and moved to La Paz. When his mother-in-law, noting that her new son-in-law was unemployed, told Christian that he couldn't live on love alone ("no puedes vivir solo de amor"), he took the hint and asked her to teach him the antiquing trade, which she gladly did.
  
  
  

  What we found:

  

  Inti Hunting Horn

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  $165.00

  

  Viracocha Silver Serving Tongs

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  $125.00

  

  Orestias Manta Pins

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  $78.00

Photography by Szymon Kochański