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ANTIQUE BUSINESS ALIVE AND WELL
AT JUNE FESTIVALMullica Hill, NJ - The 4th annual June Festival of Antiques took place at the Gloucester County 4-H Fairgrounds on Saturday, June 12th. The one-day event is hosted every year by The Yellow Garage Antiques which is located in the Historic District of Mullica Hill only one mile from the Southern New Jersey venue. This year’s show featured approximately eighty dealers from throughout the Eastern United States.
Nice weather for the day brought over 1600 shoppers to the show. “We have always had a good crowd but this was our largest to date” stated Tracy Dodge, who with her husband Steve Lipman, owns The Yellow Garage and promotes the show. “The people were coming in all day and were buying. Dealers reported good sales and we heard essentially no complaints. In light of the general economy of late, it was a nice boost. Our shop was mobbed and also had a great day. And reports from other merchants in town were extremely positive” stated Lipman.
The 4-H Fairgrounds had added another pavilion over the winter, and that increased the indoor spaces to four buildings.
Although the show highlighted many fine country Americana dealers, there was the usual across the board mixture of other categories of antiques. The four open air pavilions were packed with goods of all kinds and price ranges. For every dealer offering decoys, stoneware, redware, samplers, and quilts, there was a dealer with glass, pottery, ephemera, linens, Victoriana, Orientalia, furniture, and many other categories of antiques.
Two of the dealers new to the show this year that sold well were Costa Sakellariou of One Good Eye Antiques, Binghamton, NY and Rick Hulme of Liberty Forever Antiques, Manahawkin, NJ. Costa had an excellent blend of folk art and furniture in original surfaces while Rich had a high powered collection of early stoneware, 19th Century trade signs, and other early advertising and folk art. He sold a coffee bin and a 19th Century sign for a “Cancer Doctress” early on in the show, and a pair of large early circus clown figure toss games among, other items. Another newcomer to this year's show, Dave Grabel of Egg Harbor, NJ, showed an exquisite Pennsylvania redware presentation vessel with elaborate ribbon handles attributed to Henry McQuate, a Pennsylvania potter who operated out of Lebanon County in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Dave is a long-time Americana dealer who used to have a little shop on a back road to the Jersey Shore. He said he saw a lot of old customers that had missed him. His booth was packed with items from his personal collection including good early bottles, early redware and stoneware, an exquisite burl bowl, furniture, jewelry and artwork. Also exhibiting for the first time in Mullica Hill was Susan Goldsweig of Sage Antiques, Yonkers, NY. Susan loved the show stating she bought and sold well and the quality of the show rivaled some of the major shows she does in New York. And still another first-time dealer Debi Turi of Roseland, NJ said she sold well and will return for 2011.
Collectors needed several hours to mull over the extensive selection of quality items available. Bob and Kay Viola of Primarily Primitives, New Hope, PA returned with some wonderful painted shaker boxes, signs, wooden ware and furniture. Steve and Carol Redlar of Olde Country Antiques, Hightstown, NJ brought furniture in old paint and a good collection of decorated stoneware and redware. Steve said they had an excellent show. Also reporting a good show were three Maryland dealers -- Nancy Holleny of Granthum 1763, Denton, MD; Donald Osburn of The Old Board, Easton, MD; and Firehouse Antiques of Galena, MD. Paul and Douglas from the Firehouse sold and found some good pickings in the field. Patrick Murray of Brick, NJ, Linda Grier of Langhorne, PA, Todd Kibler of Mullica Hill, and Suzanne and Michael Cooke of Salem, NJ all brought good country furniture and smalls and said they were delighted with the show.
Doug and Diane McElwain of Sport and Spool Antiques traveled from Goldsboro, North Carolina with their specialty of antique sporting goods. They are often seen up North and have been making the June Festival one of their regular stops. They said they had a very good show, selling a large furniture piece that had the biggest ticket in their booth.
Hugh Alan Luck, artist, antiques dealer, photographer, and renowned authority on Halloween Collectibles, once again had a stunning booth in the 3rd pavilion. His space was beautifully displayed with early folk art paintings, Windsor chairs, weathervanes, early timers, a few Jack-o-Lanterns and other Halloween items, and furniture, mostly from his personal collection. Featured were two paintings from the first half of the 19th century -- a portrait of a man by Jacob Maentel and a landscape by William Matthew Prior. Maentel was a German born doctor who became an itinerant painter in Maryland and Pennsylvania the early 19th Century. He painted full figured portraits that are now a mainstay of early Pennsylvania folk art collectors. There are many examples of his work hanging in Winterthur. William Mathew Prior was born the son of a shipmaster from Bath, Maine in 1806. By the age of eighteen he was commercially painting people's likenesses for a few dollars. Since photography had not yet been invented, portrait painters of the day were prolific. Many of Prior's portraits both large and small are now seen selling at auctions and better shows and are highly collectible. Luck was offering Prior's signed landscape of a lake in Maine. He explained that it was usual to find this type of subject matter for the artist.
The June Festival of Antiques is held annually the second Saturday of June. For more information and photos of this years event, go to www.yellowgarageantiques.com or contact The Yellow Garage Antiques at 856-478-0300.
057 Golf anyone??
077 Some of the country items that were for sale.
074 Perry Conant,
The Happy Acorn, Deptford, NJ
027 Hugh Alan Luck,
Wenonah, NJ
065 Steve & Carol Redler,
Olde Country Antiques, Hightstown, NJ
068 David N. Salkin Antiques,
Philadelphia, PA
086 John Peoples,
Collingswood, NJ
092 Michael & Suzanne Cooke,
Royal Port Antiques, Salem, NJ
097 Dick Gove,
Port Republic Decoys, Port Republic, NJ
098 Baron Dietz,
Lancaster, PA
064 Ellie Ayscough
Chadds Ford, PA
along with show promoter Tracy Dodge (on right)
072 Doug & Diane McIlwayne,
Sport and Spool, Goldsboro, NC
058 Patrick Murray,
The Old Wood Shed, Brick, NJ
087 Costa Sakellariou,
One Good Eye Antiques, Binghamton, NY
069 Randi Ona,
Wayne, NJ
080 The starting gate
