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“We did very well.”
Blue Mountain Lake, New York
The Adirondack Antiques Show and Sale
by Betty Flood
The Adirondack Antiques Show and Sale at the
Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake,
New York, was held Saturday, September 17,
and Sunday, September 18, with 33 dealers from
South Carolina to Santa Fe, NewMexico. Attendance
was clocked in at 1601 patrons, and the dealers are
looking forward to next year’s show, scheduled for
September 16 and 17, 2017, which will be the 60th
anniversary of the museum.
Steve White of White & White Antiques,
Skaneateles, New York, sold a Gustav Stickley 1904
five-drawer chest in original condition.
Bill and Trish Huestis of Mountain Thistle
Antiques, LLC, Waynesboro, Virginia, featured a
Black Forest rack for $2400, an antler hook for $750,
and a riding crop with hunting horn for $325. They
also exhibited several cane handles and other pieces,
including bronze figurines.
The proprietors of Blue Line Antiques, Port
Leyden, NewYork, said, “We did very well.” Among
the items they sold were a copper eagle weathervane
for $500, five small folk art carvings for $150 to
$400, and two oil paintings for $300 and $500. A
wooden parade ax used in a 1900s parade for an
American Foresters group also sold.
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Antediluvian Antiques & Curiosities, Lake Placid, New York,
always has a show-stopper. This year it was a Noah’s ark made from
a birch bark canoe filled with five animals, all for $4250. The display
was decorated with a fantastic collection of beaded items.
The Adirondack Store & Gallery, Lake Placid, NewYork, had a pair
of 1880 opaline glass decorative vases for $8500 and the Polly Wog
runabout boat for $2495.
Cherry Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine, sold two gliders, two paintings, and several canoe
paddles. Jeff Cherry said that for the past couple of years people have not been purchasing
as much furniture but have been concentrating on decorative items.
John Provo of Plymouth,
Minnesota, had two paintings of
young Native American women,
priced at $450 each. He also had
the table lamp with a reverse-
painted glass shade depicting
deer ($1600), and to spark
things up Provo had the wooden
yellow passenger train caboose
($550).
Linda Davidson of Landrum, South Carolina, had a delightful display of smalls,
including this carved black bear for $395 and the great lamp surrounded by twigs. They
were interspersed between (not shown) a desk, small tables, a carved floor lamp, and
two wonderful Adirondack chairs, one a rocker.