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The Old World Trader
Central Missouri's ONLY source for authentic ancient and medieval weapons, pottery and other artifacts; rare maps and manuscripts; and fine chess sets and other gifts
Located at 410 South Bishop Ave, Rolla, Missouri. 573-341-8586

The Old World Trader is Rolla's History Store
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View our current specials on ancient artifacts, coins, fossils, chess sets, gifts, books, etc.
Coins from ancient Byzantine, Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and other civilizations.
Anciet and medieval weapons, pottery, tools, etc.
Rare maps, botanicals, architectural prints, and other manuscripts spanning hundreds of years
Fine orthoceras, ammonite, keichousaurus, trilobite, and other fossils. Hominid and other museum fossil casts. Framed spiders, skeletons, butterflies and other insect specimens.
Patron saint medals, Greek and Russian Icons, Christian history books, ancient judaean oil lamps, Byzantine crosses, etc.
Model ships and aircraft, replica statuary, papyrus paintings, etc.
Books about military history, ancient civilizations, medieval life, enlightenment, rennaissance, etc.
Egyptian glass, Moroccan thuya wood, Russian nesting dolls, etc.
Metal, glass, alabaster, marble, wood, porcelain, and other chess sets and supplies.
Konus and Orion telescopes, microscopes, magnifiers, etc.
The Frame Shop Gallery and Home Decor

Featured Item:
Konusky-200 8" Equatorial Reflector
The Old World Trader offers a wide variety of premium telescopes.

TELESCOPES, MICROSCOPES & MAGNIFIERS:

The Old World Trader is an authorized Orion Telescopes and Binoculars dealer and a Konus Optical Systems dealer. We sell the quality optics needed by collectors, scholars, and amateur astronomers. Many of these require special ordering. We offer telescopes for beginning, intermediate, and advanced amateur astronomers. These are not the wobbly messes that quickly kill interest in astronomy. They are well-built, with quality mounts and optics to suit most budgets. We also offer microscopes for collectors who need low power optics for inspection as well as high power biological microscopes and accessories. Finally, we offer a wide variety of magnifiers for many different applications.

If you are interested in purchasing a telescope, be sure to come by and visit with Doyle about how to select the scope that suits your needs. Be sure to think about what you would like to do with the scope, where you would like to use it, and what you would like to see. All of those are crucial to selecting the right telescope. When you leave, you will have a good understanding of what to look for in your scope. Maybe, you will even leave with one of ours.

The Old World Trader is located in Rolla, Missouri. Rolla is within an hour and a half of St Louis, Springfield, Columbia, and Jefferson City. We are only a short drive from Fort Leonard Wood.