Serendipity Antiques is an antique store at 45a Stafford Street in Timaru Central, rated 4.6 from 27 Google reviews, with its Facebook page as its main online presence. The appeal of a good antique shop is that the stock never repeats: every piece is one of a kind, so the regulars' rule is to buy when something catches your eye rather than plan a return trip. Dealers who know their trade are usually glad to talk through a piece's age, provenance and old repairs, and that conversation is often worth as much as the object itself. In a town with Timaru's Victorian and Edwardian buildings, antique stores are also where colonial furniture and early household wares tend to resurface, which is why collectors keep an eye on the smaller centres. Serendipity Antiques sits right on Stafford Street in the heart of Timaru, well placed for exactly that kind of unhurried hunt.