Capital City Classic: The Raleigh Extravaganza
November 8th, 2013
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Face jugs with white clay eyes and inked pupils are a trademark of Georgia potter Lanier Meaders (1917-1998). Pete Turner of P & P Treasures, Concord, North Carolina, had two Lanier jugs, both with full signatures on the bottom. The left face was $1700; the right, $1600. The Indianapolis Brewing Company poster was $100.
Ron and Sandra Ingle of Good Old Days, Gibsonville, North Carolina, brought this 10½" x 9" x 5" Nippon moriage bowl. The heavily beaded bowl was $395. The Ingles are show-only dealers.
All of these 1770-90 Colonial period blown glass bottles came from one collection. For the large rough-top bottles on the top shelf, Ashley Dettor of Antiques on Eleven, Verona, Virginia, asked $325 to $385. The onions and longnecks on the next shelf were $165 to $185. The single mallet (far right) was $300. |
Raleigh Antiques Extravaganza, Raleigh, North Carolina
Dealers who sell in North Carolina’s Piedmont were pulled hither and yon November 8-10, 2013. They had to choose between the 19-dealer show in Salisbury that has run for six decades and the 37-year-old Raleigh Antiques Extravaganza in the state capital, Raleigh. Both were scheduled for the same weekend. A few longtime Extravaganza dealers opted for Salisbury. To recoup, Susie Clodfelter and her colleagues at Antiques Extravaganza of North Carolina redoubled their advertising efforts. They expected 4000 to 5000 in attendance for their 85-dealer show, “but, in this economy, you never know,” she said.
The last time M.A.D. attended the Raleigh show was January 2009, another year with a bad economy. The Extravaganza was then housed in the downtown Raleigh Convention Center and boasted 175 dealers. Two years later, the show moved to the Jim Graham Building on the grounds of the North Carolina State Fair. That bustling venue offered easy access from major highways and free parking. It was miles from the high-rent cavernous convention center where the show was located in the basement and there was a $7 parking fee. “We like it here better,” said Clodfelter, one of the original organizers. “Everyone knows where to find the state fairgrounds.”
Clodfelter and her family members started the Extravaganzas in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1977. In 2012, after a number of major industries left the city and dealers dropped out, they discontinued all shows in Winston-Salem. For 2014, they have expanded their shows in Richmond, Virginia, and Raleigh from two to three each year.
The Raleigh show is a good, eclectic, and well-attended middle-market show. Twenty-one of the dealers at the November show have been with Clodfelter and family for 25 or more years. Most dealers are from the South: Virginia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee, and there are a smattering from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Massachusetts. When asked about their first day, a number of dealers said they had a good opening day. A customer took the time to thank one dealer for bringing country antiques to Raleigh. This is the South. People do things like that.
For more information about show, visit (www.antextofnc.com) or call (336) 924-4359.
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These small sycamore wood souvenirs were produced in Mauchline, Scotland for 100 years until production ended in 1933. The examples of Mauchline ware (pronounced “Mock-lynn”) featured by Antiques of London, Williamsburg, Virginia, were, clockwise from the upper left, a beaker ($65), box ($55), octagonal box ($28), needle case ($85), rectangular box ($45), and a wooden scrapbook of the flowers of the Holy Land ($75). 
Brill’s Antiques brought this 46" x 42" x 19¾" early 19th-century walnut desk. Documentation accompanying the desk names Caleb Burroughs of Madison, New Jersey, as the maker and the first of six owners. Jerry Brill asked $4500 for the desk.
Kevin Moyeu of Raleigh Furniture Gallery, North Carolina, said the only work he did on this walnut demilune buffet with marble top was to wax it. The left and right doors swing out from the center, and there is one central door. There are two shelves inside each opening. Moyeu was asking $600 for the buffet. The mahogany vanity mirror was $140.
Betsy Harris of Red Barn Antiques, Dallas, Georgia, had a booth full of jeweled picture frames and accessories that were made in Germany during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the early frames, she said, the cabochons are tall, oddly shaped, and surrounded with metal bezels, not prongs. She added copies of vintage bride photos for effect. From left, the 7" x 5" frame was $350, the 10" x 8" was $895, and the 7" x 5" was $350. The vanity was $295, and the perfume atomizer with glass straw, $375.
Country reigned supreme at Mapleside Antiques, Titusville, Pennsylvania. On the grained Cape Cod lady’s desk ($665) are two fixed globe whale oil lamps ($425 and $375), a circa 1900 handcrafted black gesso figure ($1800), a North Woodlands Indian painted basket ($145), and a handmade brass and copper candleholder ($195).Originally published in the February 2014 issue of Maine Antique Digest. © 2014 Maine Antique Digest
