Haven Magazine

CURIOS GEORGE

Any seasoned traveller has those moments, far from home, when they wonder if they should risk sending back that vase, those chairs, a precious artefact haggled over at a quaint market or roadside stall. More often than not, they’ll walk away because it’s too hard or too pricey or precarious to do so.

Not George Gaddum. His treasures tell a wonderful story of a life lived to the full – his twenties spent working in Africa and travelling in Europe before returning to New Zealand to establish himself in the

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