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16-D Maine Antique Digest, December 2016
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The largest show of Vermont Antiques Week.
Manchester Center, Vermont
Vermont Antiques Week: Antiques in Vermont
by Fran Kramer
O
n one day only, Sunday, October 2, the largest show of Vermont Antiques Week,
the 32rd annual Antiques in Vermont event, was held with 80 dealers.
The preview included drinks and donuts, and managers Phyllis Carlson and
Tim Stevenson exhibited as well. Held in the Riley Rink at Hunter Park, just a few
miles north of Manchester, Vermont, famous for its outlet stores, the show had plenty
of parking and lots of room for the exhibitors. Carlson told us that the show went well,
they had wonderful dealers, the gate was up about six percent, buyers were still coming
at 3:30, and the last hour saw a buyer patronizing a lot of dealers. Who said something
about the early bird?
We think the Vermont Antiques Week is, as one show manager put it, “undervalued
and underrated.”As an antiques reporter for decades, we have always found the Vermont
shows fun and offering items for all budgets. The shows are refreshing, comfortable,
and must-sees. Mark the 2017 calendar for September 28-October 1. Put the word
“Vermont” on those dates.
For more information, call (802) 236-2342.
On the same day as Antiques in Vermont at Riley Rink in Manchester Center, Vermont,
a craft show was on the road to the rink facility, but there was plenty of parking and no
traffic conflict.
This child’s grain-painted cupboard, from Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, was offered for $575 from Gene Bertolet of Oley,
Pennsylvania.
Antler table, $950, from Robert Foley of
Gray, Maine.
This painted sheet-iron weathervane, 1930s, was $13,500
from Fryling’s American Antiques and Folk Art, Green
Lane, Pennsylvania.
There was something about this blue hooded jacket that caught our
eye; it was a Grenfell piece, priced at $500. Justin Cobb of Captain’s
Quarters, Amherst, Massachusetts, has been in the antiques business
for 40 years and said he had never had one before. Cobb was the track
coach at the University of Massachusetts for many years and then
assistant dean.
Captain’s Quarters also had
two sashes, each labeled
Grenfell, and Justin Cobb’s
business associate, Holly
Kahn, modeled one. Each
sash was $225.
Detail on one sash label.