Weston Antiques Show
September 29th, 2018
Weston, Vermont
For the 60th time an antiques show was held to benefit the Weston Community Association in Weston, Vermont. The Weston Antiques Show, held September 28 and 29, with a preview party on September 27, housed 30 diverse dealers in the sprawling Weston Playhouse, the main beneficiary of the funds provided to the Weston Community Association.
This was the 60th year for the Weston Antiques Show, the longest-running show in Vermont, and one of the longest-running shows in the nation.
Cochairs of the show, Bob Brandt (left) and David Raymond, in the booth of Hanes and Ruskin.
“I think it was a very successful show,” said Robert Brandt, cochair of the show with David Raymond. “Our attendance at the door was down a little bit because we weren’t in October, but I think our dealers had a good show. Anecdotally and by observation, I saw plenty of people carrying packages. I think that was excellent. The dealers put on a very elegant show once again.”
The show was held one week earlier this year, and the change affected attendance. It was down 12% to 13%, according to Brandt. In 2019 the show will move back to its traditional time—the first weekend in October.
How great is this? The “All You Can Eat” trade sign was sold by Steele & Steele Antiques, Middletown, Rhode Island.
The Weston Antiques Show is the kickoff event of Antiques Week in Vermont, a slate of five shows in four days. For more information, check the website (http://westonantiquesshow.org).
A circa 1775 chip-carved spoon rack, probably New Jersey, was $15,000 from Mark & Marjorie Allen. It’s 15 1/8" tall.
Lee Hanes and Joy Ruskin of Old Lyme, Connecticut, sent a message to visitors to their booth.
This Vermont sap bucket in green and yellow paint, circa 1850, was $395 from W.M. Schwind.
Witt’s End Antiques, Walkill, New York, asked $4195 for an American 30-drawer apothecary in fruitwood. It is 4'5" high x 43" wide x 18" deep.
The Serapi, 9'10" x 12'11", dating from the third quarter of the 19th century, has wear and repairs, but it’s the “real deal,” said Lori Frandino of Frandino Antique Oriental Rugs, Walpole, New Hampshire. It was $4700—not a lot of money for a lot of art. Frandino said this Weston show, her fifth, was her best, and it was one of her best shows ever. “I sold twenty-four rugs. I’ve never done that at one show in my life,” she said. “It turned out fabulous.”
The 19th-century chalkware horse plaque, probably Pennsylvania, circa 1860, was $1200 from Clarence R. Smith of Dover House Antiques, Grafton, Vermont.
The inscribed 18th-century English delftware punch bowl, “One More and Then,” circa 1775, in good condition with no repairs, was $1300 from Hollis Brodrick of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who shared a booth with Randi Ona of Wayne, New Jersey.
Debbie Turi of Roseland, New Jersey, has a flair for fun. The pair of mannequin hands from the 1950s was $165 for the pair, the glove form was $48, and the cloche covering them was $135.
This paint-decorated document box once belonged to Captain John E. Barstow (1822-1904) of Hanover, Massachusetts. It was $2000 from Bruce Henley of New England Home Antiques, Wethersfield, Connecticut. Barstow, a shipmaster, was listed in the 1857 New York Marine Register as captain of the Wellington and in 1858 as captain of the Knickerbocker. The Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut, holds the Barstow collection, a selection of reminiscences, stories, and illustrations.
The painted 19th-century cobbler’s bench of an unusual form was $1995 from Gary Bardsley of Sudbury, Massachusetts. The knife box on top in original green was $225.
White and White Antiques, Skaneateles, New York, asked $17,500 for the painting of a black family at home, oil on academy board, circa 1870, by George Clough (1824-1901) of Auburn, New York. On the stretcher is written “Earle Mott.” “It’s absolutely untouched,” said Steve White.
Originally published in the December 2018 issue of Maine Antique Digest. © 2018 Maine Antique Digest
