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A visit to Weimar's antiques stores offers a chance to buy porcelain, silver, crystal, and furniture that survived the devastation of World War II. An attractive source for mostly 18th- and 19th-century German antiques, with everything from farmhouse-rustic to the kind of high-style pieces you might have expected at Frederick the Great's Sans Souci, can be found at Franz Christof Antiquitäten, Schlossgasse 4 (tel. 03643/902333). Also appealing are Antiquitäten am Schloss, Obereschlossgasse 2 (tel. 03643/3716712); and Thiersch Antiquitäten, Bräuhausgasse 15 (tel. 03643/402540).