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Rhinebeck, NY; Barn Star Productions and Frank Gaglio are thrilled to announce changes for their MidWeek in Manchester and Pickers Market Antiques Shows in August 2012.

Recognized as the event that started Antiques Week, The MidWeek in Manchester Antiques Show will now be called The MidWeek Antiques Show and its’ sister event the Manchester Pickers Market will now be titled The Pickers Market Antiques Show. 
Comments show manager Frank Gaglio, “One thing we can always count on is change and with that comes new and better opportunities. Just as our inventory changes, so do dates, exhibitors and venues. New Hampshire’s Antiques Week has been a wonderful event for the past 18 years and Barn Star has built a strong and reliable reputation among collectors to produce important and fun events and we plan to continue that tradition”.

With the sale of the Furniture World Design Center, home of the Barn Star shows for the past three years, finding a suitable location in the Manchester area that would provide a) space large enough for a 70 plus dealer show, b) parking for dealers and customers vehicles, c) easy access from major highways, d) cost effectiveness, e) customer amenities and conveniences, and f) finally date availability all make for a challenging search.  Continues Gaglio, “We have found a location that provides all of the above plus date availability guarantees for years to come and that location is the Douglas N. Everett Arena in Concord, NH, a short 20 minute drive from downtown Manchester”.

Located 200 yards off I-93 exit 14, the Everett Arena provides a clean, spacious and easy to load in facility where booths can be arranged in a standard grid pattern making for easy set-up and customer exploration. Extensive free parking lots surround the arena with hotels and restaurants a stones’ throw from the show.

Also new will be the order in which the shows occur with The MidWeek Antiques Show opening on its’ traditional Wednesday, August 8 and Thursday, August 9 and the Pickers Market Antiques Show returning to its’ traditional date on Friday, August 10 as an exciting one day show. Adds Gaglio, “There was a tremendous amount of thought that went into this schedule including when the greatest number of customers are in the area, keeping a schedule that preserves and respects the opening hours of the other events during Antiques Week and providing our dealers at both shows with maximum exposure and sales potential.
MidWeek will now become a 70 exhibitor show maintaining the highest standards it is known for. With lower costs to lease the arena, Barn Star is passing the savings along to their exhibitor’s at both shows in the form of reduced booth rents which speaks to their concerns for exhibitors show expenses.   

With the Pickers Market solidly recognized as a “must attend” event of Antiques Week, placing it on Friday will create the excitement of the original show 16 years ago while attracting the buying crowds that attend the Deerfield Americana Celebration, MidWeek and NHADA Show on Thursday. Pickers will finish up the week as the jewel in the crown of Antiques Week.

We sincerely hope Barn Star Productions shows stay high on your list of events to attend during Antiques Week in New Hampshire 2012. For more information please visit our web site at www.barnstar.com or call (845) 876-0616.   

PHILADELPHIA, PA. – The 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show has moved three times since debuting in 1995. This year, the 16-year-old fair founded by Barn Star Productions looked more settled than ever when it opened with mimosas and chocolates on Friday, April 8, continuing through the weekend.
 
The fair’s renewed glow comes from its winning combination of tenured exhibitors and its comfortable setting in what is affectionately known as the “Little Armory,” the small regimental drill hall between Market and Chestnut Streets. By contrast, the Philadelphia Antiques Show, the anchor fair that this one orbits, has been thrown into temporary disarray by two forced moves in the last five years.
 
But, in show business, what is good for one is good for all. Destination events like Philadelphia’s April fairs require quality, depth and variety to lure collectors from around the country. Thus Barn Star chief Frank Gaglio fervently wishes for the Philadelphia Antiques Show to be comfortably settled in a new home and is delighted to learn that Pennsylvania Convention Center, only a few minutes away from the 23rd Street Armory by taxi, is the Philadelphia Antiques Show’s likely new venue.
 
“Our goal is to stay at the 23rd Street Armory but it is imperative that our 2012 dates be consistent with those of the Philadelphia Antiques Show,” Gaglio told Antiques and Fine Art shortly after both fairs closed. “Together with Freeman’s April Americana auction, our two shows constitute, in a very loose sense, an Antiques Week in Philadelphia.”
 
Though dealers discourage frank discussion of it, vigorous trading among exhibitors is an industry mainstay. Thus it was promising that the 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show enjoyed robust early sales, with many Philadelphia Antiques Show exhibitors buying from their 23rd Street colleagues on Friday before their own fair opened.
 
“The hard-core collectors came through on Friday but business continued through the weekend. We see new collectors on Sunday, which is so important to us,” explained Bev Norwood of Norwoods’ Spirit of America Antiques.  The Maryland dealers made an early sale of a boldly graphic tailor’s trade sign of about 1850.
 
“This isn’t like New England. We sell on all three days here,” said Stephen Corrigan of Stephen-Douglas Antiques, whose stack of receipts offered a hopeful sign that the sluggish Americana market is recovering from its slump of several years. Catering to the middle and high ends of the market, Stephen-Douglas featured a petite green and red painted Pennsylvania corner cupboard, $12,500.
 
While the 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show benefits from the perception that it is an affordable place to shop, not everything is inexpensive. A bona fide masterpiece with a price tag to match, an 18th century tall-case clock from Germantown, Pa., was a much ballyhooed sale at Baldwin House Antiques of Lancaster, Pa.  Marked $330,000, the clock, illustrated in Timeless:  Masterpieces of American Brass Dial Clocks by Frank Homan, is signed by its maker, John Heilig, and dated 1789. Distinguishing characteristics include a brass dial that is engraved with a portrait of George Washington flanked by drums, cannons and flags.
 
“The date is a very important feature. Washington was going through Philadelphia for the first inauguration in New York. This clock is certainly commemorative,” said Bruce G. Shoemaker of Baldwin House Antiques. A dove on the clock’s second hand corresponds with the dove weathervane that George Washington ordered from Philadelphia for Mount Vernon in 1787. The clock’s rare mulberry wood case has tulip side windows.
 
Arts of Pennsylvania made a prominent appearance at Thurston Nichols American Antiques, where a signed John Bellamy presentation box carved with an eagle was $150,000 and a Berks County unicorn chest was $69,000. They joined “Portrait of Charles Seward’s Farm,” an oil on linen farmscape of circa 1875 that the Breinigsville, Pa., dealer recently attributed to Indiana painter Granville Bishop (1831-1902).
 
Hooked mats and assorted items made in the 1930s at the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador were strong sellers at A Bird in Hand Antiques of Florham Park, N.J. By Saturday, proprietors Ron and Joyce Bassin had marked up four choice mats from a collection of seven. All went to one collector.  Floral-embroidered, fur-trimmed suede glove and a carved stone walrus, all bearing Grenfell labels and marks, were other rarities on offer.
 
“We sold a big hutch table, a lot of early American glass and windmill weights. Good, expensive, small things,” said Ed Holden of Holden Antiques.
 
New Jersey dealer James Grievo parted with a tall-case clock and a slant-front desk. Cape Cod dealer Hilary Nolan wrote up an early walnut hanging cupboard and a red-leather covered Chinese camphorwood chest with unusual paw feet. A woodworker’s cabinet with trompe l’oeil decorations was one of Mario Pollo’s early transactions.
 
Other reported sales included a pair of Asian apothecary cabinets and a screen at John H. Rogers and a  ship’s eagle figurehead and an oval carving of a stag at Charles Wilson Antiques and Folk Art. Connecticut dealer Martin Chasen sold more than $16,000 in silver to one client while Massachusetts dealer Bill Union placed seven paintings with a single customer.
 
“’I’ve expanded the show’s parameters by adding Asian and French art and antiques. Next year, I’d like to have a glass dealer and a specialist in paper and manuscripts,” said Gaglio. The 45 exhibitors in this year’s fair included 12 new or returning dealers.
 
From Philadelphia, Barn Star Productions moves to New Hampshire for the Manchester Pickers’ Market Antiques Show on August 8 and Midweek in Manchester Antiques Show on August 10-11. For details, see barnstar.com.
 
Write to Laura Beach at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

PHILADELPHIA, PA. – The 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show has moved three times since debuting in 1995. This year, the 16-year-old fair founded by Barn Star Productions looked more settled than ever when it opened with mimosas and chocolates on Friday, April 8, continuing through the weekend.
 
The fair’s renewed glow comes from its winning combination of tenured exhibitors and its comfortable setting in what is affectionately known as the “Little Armory,” the small regimental drill hall between Market and Chestnut Streets. By contrast, the Philadelphia Antiques Show, the anchor fair that this one orbits, has been thrown into temporary disarray by two forced moves in the last five years.
 
But, in show business, what is good for one is good for all. Destination events like Philadelphia’s April fairs require quality, depth and variety to lure collectors from around the country. Thus Barn Star chief Frank Gaglio fervently wishes for the Philadelphia Antiques Show to be comfortably settled in a new home and is delighted to learn that Pennsylvania Convention Center, only a few minutes away from the 23rd Street Armory by taxi, is the Philadelphia Antiques Show’s likely new venue.
 
“Our goal is to stay at the 23rd Street Armory but it is imperative that our 2012 dates be consistent with those of the Philadelphia Antiques Show,” Gaglio told Antiques and Fine Art shortly after both fairs closed. “Together with Freeman’s April Americana auction, our two shows constitute, in a very loose sense, an Antiques Week in Philadelphia.”
 
Though dealers discourage frank discussion of it, vigorous trading among exhibitors is an industry mainstay. Thus it was promising that the 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show enjoyed robust early sales, with many Philadelphia Antiques Show exhibitors buying from their 23rd Street colleagues on Friday before their own fair opened.
 
“The hard-core collectors came through on Friday but business continued through the weekend. We see new collectors on Sunday, which is so important to us,” explained Bev Norwood of Norwoods’ Spirit of America Antiques.  The Maryland dealers made an early sale of a boldly graphic tailor’s trade sign of about 1850.
 
“This isn’t like New England. We sell on all three days here,” said Stephen Corrigan of Stephen-Douglas Antiques, whose stack of receipts offered a hopeful sign that the sluggish Americana market is recovering from its slump of several years. Catering to the middle and high ends of the market, Stephen-Douglas featured a petite green and red painted Pennsylvania corner cupboard, $12,500.
 
While the 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show benefits from the perception that it is an affordable place to shop, not everything is inexpensive. A bona fide masterpiece with a price tag to match, an 18th century tall-case clock from Germantown, Pa., was a much ballyhooed sale at Baldwin House Antiques of Lancaster, Pa.  Marked $330,000, the clock, illustrated in Timeless:  Masterpieces of American Brass Dial Clocks by Frank Homan, is signed by its maker, John Heilig, and dated 1789. Distinguishing characteristics include a brass dial that is engraved with a portrait of George Washington flanked by drums, cannons and flags.
 
“The date is a very important feature. Washington was going through Philadelphia for the first inauguration in New York. This clock is certainly commemorative,” said Bruce G. Shoemaker of Baldwin House Antiques. A dove on the clock’s second hand corresponds with the dove weathervane that George Washington ordered from Philadelphia for Mount Vernon in 1787. The clock’s rare mulberry wood case has tulip side windows.
 
Arts of Pennsylvania made a prominent appearance at Thurston Nichols American Antiques, where a signed John Bellamy presentation box carved with an eagle was $150,000 and a Berks County unicorn chest was $69,000. They joined “Portrait of Charles Seward’s Farm,” an oil on linen farmscape of circa 1875 that the Breinigsville, Pa., dealer recently attributed to Indiana painter Granville Bishop (1831-1902).
 
Hooked mats and assorted items made in the 1930s at the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador were strong sellers at A Bird in Hand Antiques of Florham Park, N.J. By Saturday, proprietors Ron and Joyce Bassin had marked up four choice mats from a collection of seven. All went to one collector.  Floral-embroidered, fur-trimmed suede glove and a carved stone walrus, all bearing Grenfell labels and marks, were other rarities on offer.
 
“We sold a big hutch table, a lot of early American glass and windmill weights. Good, expensive, small things,” said Ed Holden of Holden Antiques.
 
New Jersey dealer James Grievo parted with a tall-case clock and a slant-front desk. Cape Cod dealer Hilary Nolan wrote up an early walnut hanging cupboard and a red-leather covered Chinese camphorwood chest with unusual paw feet. A woodworker’s cabinet with trompe l’oeil decorations was one of Mario Pollo’s early transactions.
 
Other reported sales included a pair of Asian apothecary cabinets and a screen at John H. Rogers and a  ship’s eagle figurehead and an oval carving of a stag at Charles Wilson Antiques and Folk Art. Connecticut dealer Martin Chasen sold more than $16,000 in silver to one client while Massachusetts dealer Bill Union placed seven paintings with a single customer.
 
“’I’ve expanded the show’s parameters by adding Asian and French art and antiques. Next year, I’d like to have a glass dealer and a specialist in paper and manuscripts,” said Gaglio. The 45 exhibitors in this year’s fair included 12 new or returning dealers.
 
From Philadelphia, Barn Star Productions moves to New Hampshire for the Manchester Pickers’ Market Antiques Show on August 8 and Midweek in Manchester Antiques Show on August 10-11. For details, see barnstar.com.
 
Write to Laura Beach at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.