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Answer for the clue "One shopping for old curios ", 8 letters:
antiquer

Word definitions for antiquer in dictionaries

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n. 1 A person who finishes furniture or objects so they have the appearance of an antique. (Either for decoration or to perpetrate a fraud.) 2 (context slang English) A person who browses for antiques.

Usage examples of antiquer.

There were weekend antiquers from the suburbs who brought their dogs along, and families down on their luck who roped chairs to the roofs of battered cars, and discriminating male couples who turned everything over to search for trademarks on the bottom.

She skirted rusty old equipment—not worth anything by the time the elder Parkers had died, no doubt, although if Rob bothered to clean it up, he might well snare some antiquers with it—and an old claw-footed bathtub that she instantly coveted for a watering trough.