Maine Antique Digest, December 2016

2-D Maine Antique Digest, December 2016

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Part of the allure of the show

is a homey feeling.

Ludlow, Vermont

Vermont Antiques Week:

The Ludlow Antiques Show

by Fran Kramer

he third show to open during Vermont Antiques Week was the Ludlow Antiques

Show, which has been running for 52 years. It opened on Friday, September 30, and

ran through Saturday, October 1, at the Ludlow Community Center next to the Black

River High School, just a few miles from the Okemo Antiques Show. Chairperson Carol

Baranowski said after the show that “the crowd was up from last year, all of the dealers

have already signed up for next year, including six new ones, and a lot of things sold,

including furniture and quilts.”

She added that part of the allure of the show is a homey feeling, and a lot of the locals

patronize it. In fact, the show took ads in about seven different area papers. Next year it

will be back to advertising with the antiques publications’ Vermont Antiques Week ads, as

many of this year’s exhibitors strongly recommended.

This show is about as basic as one can get—no program, no frills, basic booths with

no walls, lots of tabletop items, but the food was glorious and not basic. The zucchini

casserole was topped only by the cottage pie, and the meatballs and ribs did stick to your

ribs. This show is known for its food and finds. Lots of dealers from the other shows come

to look and pick, because if they find something, the price is right. But even here, the

quantity of finds was less than we had seen in the past. Thirty-two dealers, mainly from

Vermont and New Hampshire, although one was all the way from Florida, offered very

affordable choices. The show is sponsored by the Holy Name of Mary Altar Society, and

Baranowski has been in charge for 24 of the show’s 52 years. Proceeds go to support the

church group’s many programs in the community.

For more information, call (802) 226-7574 or (802) 226-7842.

Opening at the Ludlow Antiques Show, which was held at the Ludlow Community

Center.

John Bourne of Pittsford, Vermont, offered a nice horse for $350 beside a white swan

priced at $475.

Lap loom, $175, from J. Goodwin of Hinesburg, Vermont.

Penny rug in red, blue, and gray, $295, from Dean Woolever of Rochester, New York.

Hooked rug with cats, $495, from Bayberry Antiques, which specializes in hooked rug

restorations.

Twentieth-century game wheel in yellow,

$475, from Bayberry Antiques, Rockland,

Massachusetts.

Fish nets, $110 and $75; fish creel, $125; and

wooden pitchfork, $75, all from Reflections

Antiques, Williamson, New York.