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my role is completely different! At Del- What unusual item would you like to
campe, I’m responsible for overall strate- find?
gy; I approve the projects and provide I’m naturally very curious and I love to
overall direction to the company. I’m on learn! So, it’s a difficult question because
the front line, but really in a different way. I’m interested in many different things.
Thanks to Affaire Conclue, many new Of course, since I’m interested in the
collectors, passionate collectors and Belle Époque and I wear brooches, I’d
amateurs are discovering Delcampe. It’s really like to find a Cartier or a Boucheron
win-win. I contribute to Affaire Conclue brooch from the early 20th century.
and that role makes our community of And why not a beautiful Lalique vase or
collectors even better known... It de- a nice painting to decorate the house...
serves it! What’s really amazing about the show, is
that you never know what kinds of ob-
How did the selection go? jects you’ll see!
Everything started with a bet between ...and why not, one day, a stamp, a post-
the marketing team and me! The team card or a coin... which are the collections
thought it would be a good idea that I be- I know best... but which are extremely
come a buyer on Affaire Conclue. I said rare on the show!
“Bet you” without really believing it. They
contacted production and put forward You resell the objects. What’s the
my application. Then, I had a zoom inter- process?
view, which went really well. A few mon- There are some objects I love that I’ll
ths later, when I really wasn’t expecting keep at home, but my goal is, essen-
it, production called me up to ask me to tially, to be able to share all of the finds
appear as a guest buyer on the prime you’ll see me buy on the show! www.
show which was shooting two weeks la- delcampe.net, the marketplace I created
ter. At the time, I was at the MonacoPhil gives me the opportunity to resell to an
trade show... and I accepted enthusiasti- audience of informed collectors and
cally. You know the rest! amateurs. It’s obviously the sales chan-
nel that we’ll give priority to. For the past
Will we see you again soon? few weeks, the Delcampe blog has in-
I appear on the show on a regular basis. cluded a page dedicated to beautiful an-
Some of them have already been shot tiques found thanks to Affaire Conclue.
and others are being planned. There will Please take a tour to see the items... and
be regular information on Delcampe, but maybe buy from the buyer!
we won’t announce every show with in-
formation about my purchases, behind
the scenes, etc. To find out about my
broadcast times and all of the more ex-
clusive information, follow me on my
official Sébastien Delcampe Facebook
page. I also have an Instagram account
at Sébastien Delcampe which I use on a
regular basis.

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