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I went, I saw, I bought … and I am still buying!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Revised 19 January 2025 | First published: 16 June 2022 ~ What makes Kaliningrad Flea Market a Junk Buyers paradise?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTE>:<\/mark> Kaliningrad flea market has moved! Follow the link to the new location here<\/a>. Use this article to gain an insight and overview of what the market has to offer. The address of the new location can also be found at the end of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000<\/strong><\/mark>, the first time I set foot on Kaliningrad soil ~ a giant step for a man who had never been to Russia before ~ one of the major attractions very quickly became the city\u2019s flea market or junk market, as we like to call it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linked post > Beldray at Kaliningrad Flea Market a Surprising Find<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In those days, the junk market was located at the side of Kaliningrad\u2019s central market, a monolithic and cavernous complex consisting of all kinds of exciting combinations of traditional stalls, purpose-built units and multi-layered shops, selling everything from fruit and veg to jewellery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get to the market we would cut around the back of Lenin\u2019s statute, which occupied the place where the Orthodox cathedral stands today (irony), and making our way along a make-shift pavement of boards raised on pallets, often treacherously slippy as winter approached, we\u2019d pass amidst the wagon train of covered craft-sellers\u2019 stalls, trek across the city\u2019s bus park and, on the last leg of the journey, sidle off down a long, wide alley, which had rattling tin on one side and a towering building on the other. I have no idea why, as I was often in Kaliningrad during the sunny seasons, but my abiding memory of that alley was that it sucked wind down it like the last gasp of breath and was never anything other than cold, wet and raining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another ‘in those days’ was that the junk market extended along the side of the road, which is now a pedestrianised space between buildings ancient and modern and the latest super monolithic shopping centre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dealers could be found in an old yard opposite, plying their trade from a shanty town of stalls, all higgledy-piggledy, thrown and cobbled together, whilst public sellers set up shop on a narrow sloping scar of land, a grass verge at the side of a pavement worn down over the years by the restless itinerance of junk-seller hopefuls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our militaria dealing and 1940s\u2019 re-enactment hey days, we bought twenty pairs of sapagee<\/em> (high leather and canvas military boots) from a bloke stalled out on this piece of ground over several consecutive days. We also bought his Soviet military belts, the ones that he was wearing. On the last day of purchasing, we would have had his belt again had he more to sell, but all that he had left by the time we were through with buying was a piece of knotted string, which he needed to keep his trousers up. <\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Kaliningrad<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

When we left Russia at the end of a month\u2019s visit, this was in 2004, border security couldn\u2019t help sniggering when they found inside our vehicle twenty pairs of old Soviet boots, rolled up tightly, lashed down with string and packed away in bin liners. But he who laughs last, laughs longest. We hadn\u2019t sneaked off with an icon or two or anything of any great value, but boots bought for a quid a pair that we could sell on in the UK at \u00a335 or more a pop to WWII re-enactors and members of living history groups was unarguably lubbly jubbly. Whilst we wouldn\u2019t get rich on the proceeds, it would certainly help to offset the cost of our trip to Kaliningrad. Dear, dear comrades, it shames me to admit what a despicable capitalist I once was.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Soviet<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

When I first came to Kaliningrad (2000), I was buying stuff mainly for myself, but as I turned dealer, as most collectors are obliged to do to reclaim the space they live in, I did what all collectors must when the fear of decluttering wakes them in a cold sweat from their slumbers: I went out looking for more clutter, the justification being that I was no longer buying it for myself but selling it on for profit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believe you me, sooner or later (usually later), every junk hoarder arrives at a critical stage of consciousness, when they finally have to admit to themselves that buying old stuff is not just a compulsion, it is in fact a disease. After confession, however, absolution swiftly follows and, like all professional sinners, hoarders quickly learn that regular sin and regular confession go productively hand-in-hand. Thus, wherever it was we travelled to ~ be it Lithuania, Latvia, Poland or Odessa in Ukraine ~ the story was always the same: junk markets and antique shops loomed large on the itinerary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What makes Kaliningrad Flea Market a Junk Buyers’ paradise?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Be it ever so difficult, if not impossible, for the likes of us to understand, but accumulating old stuff is not everyone\u2019s cup of tea. Thus, the first victims of the development and progressive gentrification of Kaliningrad\u2019s market area were the junk sellers. Speaking euphemistically, they were \u2018politely asked to move on\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must admit (there you go, I am at it again, confessing!) that when I discovered their absence, I was truly mortified: new shops, block-paved walkways, tree-inset pedestrian-only streets ~ to be sure an incredible face lift, which no amount of Botox or timely plastic surgery could hope to emulate. All, I suppose, applaudable. But oh! Wherefore thou goest junk?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it happened there was no cause for alarm. All I needed to do was go around the bend, something that I am known to be good at, and there it was, as plain as the specs (the vintage specs) on your nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The precise location of the junk market was ~ I use the term \u2018was\u2019 because rumour has it that the purveyors of indispensable high-quality items and second-hand recyclables may be made to move on again to make way for further civic tarting ~ parallel to the road at the back of Der Wrangel tower, thereupon extending at a right angle, along a sometimes dusty, sometimes muddy, tree-shaded stretch of embankment, skirting a remnant of K\u00f6nigsberg\u2019s moat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The better-quality items ~ such as militaria and K\u00f6nigsberg relics ~ are generally to be found on the stalls lining either side of the pavement. Here you can discover gems, although not necessarily, or regularly for that matter, at prices to suit your pocket.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The pavement-side sellers are mainly traders, people \u2018in the know\u2019, who are hoping to get at least market rate for their wares or substantially more, if they can wangle it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience has taught me that in dealing with these chaps movement on prices is not unachievable, but don\u2019t expect the sort of discounts that are possible to negotiate at UK vintage and boot fairs. Sellers in Kaliningrad are skilled in the art of bargaining and are seemingly absolute in their conviction that if you<\/em> don\u2019t want it at the quoted price some German tourist will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A busy Saturday at Kaliningrad Flea Market<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you are after military items, especially those relating to WWII and to K\u00f6nigsberg\u2019s German past, then it is here, along this stretch of pavement, where most likely you will find them. Badges, military dog-tags, Third Reich medals and weapon relics are often quite prolific in this quarter, as is cutlery, ceramics and ceramic fragments, many backstamped with political symbols and the insignia of Germany’s military services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A word of warning, however. For although Kaliningrad’s German heritage and the fierce battles fought there during WWII would reasonably lead you to expect a preponderance of genuine military relics, as anyone who collects Third Reich memorabilia and\/or deals in this specialised field will tell you, counterfeit and reproductions abound. German WWII relics, both military and civilian, bearing ideological runes attained collectable status almost before WWII had ended, and a thriving market in quality replicas to service this growing interest emerged as early as the late 1940s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Party badges, military decorations, particularly of the higher orders and those associated with the German SS, have been faked and faked extensively, and faked with such credibility that it is difficult to distinguish, sometimes almost impossible, the later versions from the real McCoy, particularly since many were struck from the same dies and moulds that were used to create the originals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rule of thumb when hunting out Third Reich bargains from dealers\u2019 stock is that you are less likely to get a bargain than to experience a hard bargain, as the pieces acquired by dealers will almost certainly have been exhaustively studied and meticulously researched. However, if you are <\/em>tempted to buy, pay attention to the item\u2019s appearance. Remember that genuine military items dating to the Second World War are now well into their dotage ~ 80-years-plus ~ and just like ‘mature’ people will generally exhibit significant signs of age, age-related wear and tear and sundry other defects from natural use and handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other thing to watch out for is a proliferation of similar items at any one time. When in the UK, I was a regular attendee at the Bedford Arms Fair, then held in the now demolished Bunyan Centre, you could guarantee each year that a \u2018bumper crop\u2019 of something or other would mysteriously materialise. What an alarm bell that is! For example, one year it was German army dress daggers. Every other dealer seemed to have some and all in mint condition; the next it was German flags. These looked and smelt the part ~old ~ with the exception of their labels, which did neither. So, beware! Before you part with your cash or touch your card on the handset, remember these two wise words: Caveat emptor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I buy German these days I do so not to sell on but mainly for nostalgic reasons, and because I am attracted by the historic value only, I am content to purchase military pieces, decorations, party badges and anything else that appeals to me that have been dug up out of the ground. Naturally, condition ranges from considerably less than pristine to battered, biffed, corroded and poor, but an item in this condition is more likely to be the genuine article than one that might be described as \u2018remarkably well-preserved\u2019. Moreover, you can usually buy such items at a price that won\u2019t break your brother\u2019s piggy bank (is that another confession?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same can be said for architectural pieces such as enamel and metal signs that are K\u00f6nigsberg in origin. Signs ~ advertising, military, street plaques ~ whatever they might be, are personal favourites of mine, since they make historically interesting additions to any thoughtful home design. In purchasing relics of this nature, the same rule applies as the guiding one proposed for determining whether militaria is genuine or not. Signs, whatever their type and whatever material they are made of will, in the main, have been used, thus commensurable indications of use and age should be apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past four decades, as original signs, especially enamel ones, have grown in popularity and correspondingly price, various retro companies have been successfully plugging the gap in an escalating market, meeting demand with repro goods. Some of these shout repro at you from a telescopic distance, but as techniques in ageing evolve, it often can be hard at first glance, even after several glances and even after a detailed study, to separate the wheat from the chaff, particularly when impulsiveness knocks caution quite unconscious. And signs are not the only things that are being skilfully ‘got at’. I recall a \u201819th<\/sup> century ship’s wheel turning up at our local auction house. It was so well aged and distressed that were it not for the fact that it was so thoroughly convincing, you could easily have talked yourself Into disbelieving that it was anything other than the genuine article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what to look out for: Signs that are \u2018uniformly\u2019 aged or show wear and tear in places where you would most expect to find wear and tear but not to the extent that it dissuades you from going ahead with a purchase are to be placed at the top of the suspect list. The last thing you want to discover, after years of gazing lovingly at the antique sign in your home, romancing on the fancy that this was once on a K\u00f6nigsberg shop front, long imagining how eyes like yours lost in time and to memory alighted on it as yours do now, is to learn that your treasured piece of history was in fact knocked out in China less than a week before you bought it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Original German\/K\u00f6nigsberg signs<\/span> <\/strong>(photo taken Victor Ryabin<\/a> Studio, c.2010)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once authenticity has been established, anything to be had forming a direct link to K\u00f6nigsberg can only be irresistible, not just signs but home appliances, kitchen ware, tea sets, ornaments, furniture, garden tools, anything in fact, especially when that anything bears irrefutable provenance in the form of a maker\u2019s mark. Metalware and ceramics embossed or printed with commercial references, ie references to memorable brands or specific retail outlets, are desirable collectors\u2019 pieces. Old ashtrays, many of which are inventive in shape and size, are top whack in this category. Even if chipped and cracked, they still command high prices, and as for the best examples, which are usually in the hands of dealers, after you have exclaimed with astonishment, \u201cHow much!\u201d in those same hands they may well remain.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For a less expensive and in-profusion alternative, you could do far worse than plump for bottles. Bottle bygones are dug up in their hundreds, possibly thousands, in Kaliningrad and across the region, but as there are as many different shapes, sizes and hues as there is quantity, it is not unreasonable to discover rare, curious and even exquisite bottles rubbing shoulders with the more mundane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UK, old bottles from the end of the 19th<\/sup> century to the 1960s are as cheap as chips (used to be, before the West sanctioned itself), but Kaliningrad is not the UK, so don\u2019t expect to get bargains on a par. The trade here adjusts the market price according to the needs and instincts of German visitors, many of whom are easily swayed to part with more money than they seem to have sense for a fragment of their forbears\u2019 past. But “Ahh,\u201d I hear you say, “what price, philistine, can anyone put on nostalgia?” Must I confess again?<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Mick<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I have been known to part with as much as ten quid for an interesting and unusual bottle when it has caught my fancy, but this kind of impetuosity acts in defiance of common sense. If you haven\u2019t got the bottle to part with that much, and you shouldn\u2019t have (Frank Zappa: \u2018How could I be such a fool<\/a>!\u2019), when visiting Kaliningrad\u2019s \u2018flea market\u2019, turn 90 degrees from the pavement, head along the well-worn and sometimes muddy embankment, and there you will find bottles and a vast range of all sorts, spread out on the ground on blankets, perched on top of little tables, hanging even in the branches of trees, for this is the market\u2019s bargain basement, home to mainly domestic sellers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I have bought all sorts of things from this part of the market that I never knew I did not need, not to mention clothes that I have never worn and never will wear. For example, I was once obliged to buy an old tin bucket, and I would not dream of wearing it. It\u2019s far too nice a bucket to use as a bucket should be used; so, there it sits in our dacha full of things that one day I possibly may go looking for but will never dream of looking for in that old tin bucket. It\u2019s the sort of bucket that dealers such as I typically find in house clearances ~ a bucket of flotsam and jetsam left behind by the owner when he up and decided to die; a bucket of odds and ends destined to take up valuable space; the accidental contents of which having absolutely no value at all, I would never be able to give away let alone turn as much as a penny on. I sometimes wonder if this is not the only logical reason why people fill their houses and barns with junk, viz to make more work for those poor sods whose job it is to clear them after they, the owners, kick the bucket. And what a lovely bucket, my bucket is!<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Mick<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Now, where was I? Ahh, yes wandering around on the bank mesmerised by matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I said at the outset of this post, Kaliningrad\u2019s \u2018collectors\u2019 market\u2019 is on the move again. Please don\u2019t quote me on this! As Elvis Costello said, it could be \u2018just a rumour that was spread around town\u2019, but its veracity is tied to the echo that the strip of wooded embankment roaming along by the side of the K\u00f6nigsberg fort may soon be hosting its last tin bucket. There is a whisper in the air of landscape reincarnation and the rustle of leaves in a public park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, I am not entirely certain where this cornucopia of memories, this junk market par excellence, is now officially bound, although the wind in my tin bucket tells me that it may be somewhere not far removed from the city’s botanical gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be perfectly honest with you (another confession may soon be required), I really harbour no desire to know the new location ~ what the eye doesn\u2019t see the heart won\u2019t pine after. Thus, the next time that I wake up at the market handing over my roubles, I won\u2019t be able to blame myself for going there deliberately and for buying things on purpose. Take a leaf out of my well-thumbed book: never leave chance to anything else but intention ~ you can always confess in the fulness of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2025 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Proposed location of Kaliningrad Flea Market at time of writing:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gaidara Street 8 ~ a piece of land, I am told, that lies opposite the bridge on the way to Sovetsky Prospekt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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