First European Shipping, based in Budapest, is Hungary's most respected art and antiques transporter. Let us be your agent in Europe's hottest antique market!


Our services include the following:

  • Shipping art and antiques by air or surface to anywhere in the world
  • Proxy auction bidding
  • Guided antique shopping tours in Budapest and the countryside
  • Museum export permits & customs clearance
  • Research and official letters of appraisal
  • Restoration
  • A wide selection of antiques from Budapest's finest galleries and antique shops
  • Professional crating and packing
  • Insurance
  • Search and purchase services
  • Walking tours of Budapest
  • New custom designs for home and garden in wrought iron
  • A little info on who we are & what we do. How you can use this website to shop for antiques from Europe?
    Our online catalog of antique items with digital pictures and details of each item we have available.
    This is a new educational feature on our website that focuses on Hungarian art, design, applied arts and architecture of the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries.

    New service for intrepid dealers and private collectors - guided antique shopping excursions in the Transylvania region of Romania and parts of southern Slovakia.
    Here you can find the current auction schedule as well.
    A little info on some of the different styles of early 20th Century furniture that we have available.

    No one knows Hungary's art and antique market like we do.
    Guiding and finding to antique shopping tours, auctions, restoration, research.
    We are Hungary's oldest and most respected commercial art transporter. We provide air and surface freight, as well as great rates for local trucking within Budapest.
    Paul Street Tours offers comfortable, custom-tailored walking tours of the most colorful and storied Budapest neighborhoods

    Our company has been recommended in the following quality publications:
       • Alan Brown, "Budapest: The Facts." Travel and Leisure Magazine, February 1999
      • Steve Fallon, Lonely Planet Budapest, published September 2001
      • Angus Wilkie, "Everything You Need to Know About Wiener Werkstatte."
      • Elle Decor magazine, November 2001
      • Eve Kahn, Art and Antiques magazine (forthcoming - spring 2003)
      • Budapest In Your Pocket
      • Where Budapest
    In response to the significant amount of interest the article has sparked in the Werkstatte, we've added an essay on it under our WORKSHOPS section. We've also added a few new pieces to the catalogue. Please contact us at taylorj@firsteuropeanshipping.com if you'd like to know more about acquiring furniture from this movement.
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    Latest update: June 12, 2005

    New E-mails!: megyesa@firsteuropeanshipping.com 

    taylorj@firsteuropeanshipping.com 



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