Tea has a special place in the heart of Toma Clark Haines. “The first time I went to the Paris Flea Market, 17 years ago, I was terrified,” she recounts. “It’s at the edge of the city, not in a great neighborhood. I was by myself, I didn’t speak French at the time, and I really wished I had a friend with me. But I found something I fell in love with.”
That something was an Empire tea pot, white with gold trim. And seven years later, when Clark started her antiques tour company, Th




