Camden antiques show July 18-19

Tue, 07/14/2015 - 8:15am

    The 35th annual Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show and Sale will be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, at the Camden Hills Regional High School.

    The Camden Show has been the premier antiques show in Maine for early 18th, 19th, and early 20th century furniture, Americana, and accessories. This year’s show will be another great show with antiques dealers specializing in American and English furniture, antique silver, marine antiques, decoys, Staffordshire, Flow Blue, Americana, Folk Art, early hearth equipment, and more.

    This year’s show will have 38 booths from nine states selling antiques in every area of the antiques market. Returning dealers in early painted furniture and Americana from Maine include Martin Ferrick, Patricia Ann Breame and Ship Island Antiques. The Camden Show is not, however, just a country furniture show. Exhibitors will also have antique and estate jewelry, fine glass and china, silver, early soft paste, pottery, brass, copper, and pewter, quilts and other textiles, antiquarian books and prints.

    In addition, there are several new dealers including Hanes & Ruskin (Connecticut), John and Leland Marshall (Massachusetts), Gary Bardsley Antiques (Massachusetts) and Debbi Turi Antiques LLC (New Jersey). See the exhibitor listing in our ad in this paper. Visitors will find the show well-rounded with an exciting variety of antiques in all price ranges and with the quality that the Camden Show patrons have come to expect over the years.

    The Camden-Rockport Historical Society uses the proceeds from the show to help fund their many local projects. Among them is The Conway House, the society’s museum located on Route 1 south of the village, where visitors are welcome from Mondays to Fridays. The Antiques Show will again be catered with lunch and snacks available. Adult admission is $7 each ($6 with the ad appearing elsewhere in this paper) and children under 12 are free when accompanied by an adult. Show hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Camden Hills Regional High School on Route 90 less than a mile from the intersection with Route 1.

    For more information, call Goosefare at 800-641-6908.