About Us

Introduction

Chichester was started in 1992 by Paul Crosby as a part-time hobby business exporting Native American arts and crafts from Canada to the United States. Throughout the years, we have grown into an importer, exporter, distributor, and retailer with offices in both Canada and the United States. Our primary market is the United States, where we distribute an array of products from our warehouse in Antwerp, New York. Our main product lines include the following items:

Rabbit Skins, Furs, Hides, Skins, Steer Horns, and Antlers
Craft Supplies, Beads, Buttons, Shells, and Driftwood
Leather Bags, Fur Hats, and Fur Accessories
Cow Skins, Sheep Skin Rugs, and Fur Rugs and Pillows
Trading Post Goods
Native American Arts and Crafts
Dinosaur Products
Gallery Quality Art
African Arts and Crafts
Curiosities and Exotica

Some of our customers include museums, gift shops, trading posts, theme parks, catalog retailers, manufacturers, crafts people, museum exhibit suppliers, interior designers, movie set decorators, costume designers, and collectors. We have engaged in drop shipments around the world, for example, we have shipped from Morocco to Slovakia, Finland to China, Spain to Brazil and Mexico, South Africa to Canada, and Canada to China, etc. We ship everything from a small box with a single item to 40-foot ocean containers.

Read about How Chichester Serves the Movie Business around the World.

Read our Statement about the Ethical Sourcing of Animal Products.

Where We Have Done Business Around the World

Chichester regularly imports from more than 30 countries and exports to about 40 in a typical year. The following list shows all places that we have done business over the years. Chichester staff visit new countries every year to source our products. In a typical year, Paul Crosby will do business on four or five continents. As of March 2025, Paul has done 262 intercontinental trips, crossed the Atlantic ocean 140 times, the Arctic ocean 22 times, the Pacific ocean 23 times, made 26 trips to various countries in Africa, 10 trips to the Caribbean, 5 trips to Central America, 9 trips to South America, 11 trips to Asia, 2 trips to India, and 1 trip to Australia and New Zealand. Paul has done business in person in 94 countries. We see suppliers and customers in person. We know the world!

In the list below, an asterisk (*) indicates one or more personal visits to the country or region.

Albania*
Andorra*
Antarctica, McMurdo Station
The Arctic*
Argentina*
Aruba*
Australia*
Austria*
The Bahamas*
Bangladesh
Barbados*
Belgium*
Belize*
Brazil*
British Virgin Islands*
Bulgaria
Cambodia*
Canada*
- Alberta*
- British Colombia*
- New Brunswick*
- Nova Scotia*
- Manitoba*
- Ontario*
- Prince Edward Island*
- Quebec*
- Saskatchewan*
- Newfoundland* and Labrador*
- Northwest Territories*
- Nunavut
- Yukon*
Cayman Islands
Chile*
China*
Colombia*
Costa Rica*
Croatia*
Czech Republic*
Denmark*
Dominican Republic*
Ecuador*
El Salvador*
England*
Egypt*
Estonia
Ethiopia*

Finland*
France*
French Guiana*
Germany*
Gibraltar*
Greece*
Greenland
Grenada*
Guatemala*
Haiti*
Hong Kong*
Hungary*
Iceland*
India*
- Delhi*
- Kerala*
- Tamil Nadu*
- Uttar Pradesh*
Ireland*
Israel*
Italy*
Jamaica*
Japan*
Kosovo*
Kuwait
Lebanon
Lesotho*
Liechtenstein*
Luxemburg*
Madagascar*
Malaysia
Martinique*
Mexico*
Macao*
Moldova*
Monaco*
Mongolia*
Morocco*
Namibia*
The Netherlands*
New Zealand*
Nigeria
North Macedonia*
Norway*
Pakistan
Panama*
Paraguay*

Peru*
The Philippines*
Poland*
Portugal*
Romania*
Russia
Rwanda*
Saudi Arabia*
Scotland*
Serbia*
Singapore*
Slovakia*
South Korea*
Spain*
Sweden*
Switzerland*
South Africa*
- Eastern Cape*
- Free State*
- Guateng*
- Kwazulu-Natal
- Limpopo
- Mpumalanga
- North West*
- Northern Cape*
- Western Cape*
Taiwan
Thailand*
Transnistria*
Turkey*
Ukraine*
United Arab Emirates*
- Dubai*
United States*
- Alabama*
- Alaska*
- Arizona*
- Arkansas*
- California*
- Colorado*
- Connecticut*
- Delaware*
- Florida*
- Georgia*
- Hawaii
- Idaho

United States* continued
- Illinois*
- Indiana*
- Iowa*
- Kansas*
- Kentucky*
- Louisiana
- Maine*
- Maryland*
- Massachusetts*
- Michigan*
- Minnesota*
- Mississippi*
- Missouri*
- Montana*
- Nebraska*
- Nevada*
- New Hampshire*
- New Jersey*
- New Mexico*
- New York*
- North Carolina*
- North Dakota*
- Ohio*
- Oklahoma*
- Pennsylvania*
- Rhode Island*
- South Carolina*
- South Dakota*
- Tennessee*
- Texas*
- Utah*
- Vermont*
- Virginia*
- Wisconsin*
- Wyoming*
- District of Columbia*
- Guam
- Puerto Rico*
- U.S. Virgin Islands*
Uruguay*
Vietnam*
Wales*
Zimbabwe*