Oct 1, 2018 | Featured Post
Coca Cola Collectors have strong affinity to the wonderful, warm images of Santa Claus as portrayed in the Coca Cola advertisements of bygone days. The American, Michigan-born artist who created these images was Haddon Sundblom. Sundblom, the son of Scandinavian...
Oct 1, 2018 | Publisher's Message
We had a few days of pre-Fall cold weather in Western New York, so it was time to fire up the Rumford fireplace. Many of you know that Count Rumford (aka Benjamin Thompson) was a Colonial-era scientist who, like Ben Franklin, was interested in the properties of heat...
Oct 1, 2018 | Press Releases
The Antique Dealers Association of Berks County, PA, or ADABC, proudly present their 5th Annual Kempton Antique Show scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 20 at the large Kempton Community Recreation Center, located at 83 Community Center Drive in Kempton, PA. This...
Oct 1, 2018 | Press Releases
The Elverson Antique Show and Sale has changed its date to the last weekend in October. The semi-annual show will be held at the Twin Valley High School, located at 4897 Twin Valley Road, Elverson, PA. It will take place on Saturday, October 27 from 11 AM...
Oct 1, 2018 | Press Releases
The Wayne County Antique Dealers Association’s 40th Annual Fall Antique Show & sale will be held Sat. Nov. 3 (10 a.m. – 5 p.m.) & Sun. Nov. 4 (10 a.m. – 4 p.m.) The show will be held at the Williamson High School, Rt. 21-S (1.5 miles south of...
Aug 23, 2018 | Press Releases
The 20th annual Delaware Coast Antiques Show & Sale is scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 7, 8, and 9 at the Convention Center at 229 Rehoboth Avenue in Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971. This popular seaside resort and year-round community is...
Aug 22, 2018 | Press Releases
The weekend of September 15th and 16th is a great time to plan a trip to Schoharie County. Steeped in history, the Schoharie Valley Railroad Complex will once again be the site of our 43rd annual ANTIQUES IN SCHOHARIE. The dealers will arrive early on...
Jul 27, 2018 | Press Releases
The “ORIGINAL 171st Semi-Annual York Antiques Show & Sale” is scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 21, 22 & 23 at Memorial Hall East, located within the York Fairgrounds Convention & Expo Center at 334 Carlisle Avenue in downtown York,...
Jul 26, 2018 | Press Releases
The Fisher-Price Collectors Clubholds an annual toy show and sale each year in the East Aurora NY area. Club members along with other toy vendors sell classic Fisher-Price and other related vintage toys from their collections. Some of our regular sellers are...
Jul 26, 2018 | Antique Show, By Grant Hamilton, Editorial
There’s nothing like the Finger Lakes of New York on hot June Saturday, and the Genesee Country Antiques Dealers Association picked another perfect day for their second annual summer show. This group is noted for its spring show held at Nazereth College in...
Jul 26, 2018 | Publisher's Message
Personally I was never fond of antiques shops that also had contemporary gift items. It seemed to me to diminish the “authenticity” of the antiques. I also found it annoying that I had to spend time looking past the contemporary to find the old. I’m beginning to...
Apr 25, 2018 | Publisher's Message
One of the first “two-figure” antiques I purchased in my early collecting years was a view camera complete with a case with holders for keeping and exposing glass negatives. It was $15. We were visiting my grandmother and there was an antiques shop, not too far away,...
Apr 24, 2018 | Antique Show, Press Releases
**Antique Dealers Sought for June 2 in Historic Clifton Springs Info: 315-462-8200 or https://www.CliftonSpringsChamber.com Picturesque downtown Clifton Springs is the perfect setting for perusing and purchasing antiques! On Saturday, June 2 an...
Apr 5, 2018 | Press Releases
The largest Gun Show held in New York State will be staged at the NYS Fairgrounds Expo Center in the Center of Progress Building in Syracuse on April 21 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Over 800-1000 exhibits and displays will be...
Apr 5, 2018 | Auction Results
When Western New York resident Isadore “Izzy” Bleckman was just beginning his career as a news cameraman, his employer, Movietone News – UPI, sent him to Dallas to do follow-up coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy. It was there that he recorded the...
Mar 27, 2018 | Press Releases
The Olde Stark Antique Faire will be held Saturday and Sunday, APRIL 14 & 15 at the Stark County Fairgrounds, Exhibition Hall, 305 Wertz Ave., Canton, Ohio. Hours are 9 AM to 4 PM Saturday and 10 AM to 4 PM Sunday for this large indoor show featuring over 100...
Mar 27, 2018 | Publisher's Message
When Paul “Ponzi” Polce and Stephen White, two well-regarded Central New York dealers, agreed to take over the management of the Kerr Museum show in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, they invited Linda and I to make trip from East Aurora to visit the show at the Oakmont Country...
Mar 2, 2018 | Publisher's Message
March is Women’s History Month in the United States and we will, no doubt, be reminded of the work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in promoting women’s suffrage. And we will hear about the many “first women” like Hillary Clinton and Sally Ride. Of...
Mar 2, 2018 | By Gayle Manley, Editorial, Featured Post
For stamp and toy collectors, pop culture followers and children who grew up watching Mister Rogers, March 23rd, 2018 will be “a beautiful day in the neighborhood.” Ever humble with simple messaging, Fred McFeely Rogers will be honored by the U.S. Postal Service...
Mar 2, 2018 | Press Releases
Photo Dealers Exhibit to Motivated Customers! Dealers and collectors of vintage photography and all the gear required to create, develop, manipulate, and merchandise the photography medium will gather in Rochester, N.Y. on April 22 for the Antiquarian Photography Show...
