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This small shop, located at Rue de la Manticore 3 in Paris, is one of the best places in Europe to find magickal supplies. In the tiny shop window a few silver ceremonial knives are on display, together with a jumble of books, curious flasks, astrological tools and incomprehensible artifacts. A small sign tells the reader that the shop buys and sells "esoteric antiques and tools". The inside is a mixture of a small second hand bookshop, antiques store, new age shop and workshop (Antoine, one of the brothers, is a strong believer in making or repairing as many things as possible by hand). Behind a desk covered with stained papers, books, astrological charts and an unwieldy armillary sphere sits Theodore, the other brother, a small bespectacled man who seems to be constantly reading something or other.

The shop sells just about everything a ceremonial mage may need: ritual tools, robes, chalks, medals, incenses, parchment, various substances and arcane artifacts. Things can be made to order and the brothers are scrupulous in following the directions regardless of how bizarre they may seem. If the brothers have not got what a customer wants, they can usually get it through their wide network of connections (which seems to extend to the strangest places). If you need a staff of aspen wood cut with a single cut from a northerly branch on a Thursday, chalk from Antarctica or a human bezoar stone, they can get it.

That the shop continues to exist is an economic miracle, since one would expect that it is too specialized to get any customers. Still, the steady trickle of occultists and mages from the more ceremonial traditions like the Order of Hermes and Verbena seems to be enough to keep it afloat, and the prices are reasonable (that doesn't mean things are cheap; where else can you get a working astrolabium today?).