The Michigan Antique & Collectible Festivals in conjunction with Michigan State University & Central Michigan University have announced participation in a unique contest.
The state’s largest antique show runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Adult admission is $6. Children 11 and under are free.
Students from MSU and CMU will participate in the Michigan Antique Festival Interior Design Student Contest.
MSU and CMU interior design students will form six teams and use antiques found throughout the festival to decorate rooms. They will be competing for $3,000 in scholarships. Visitors to the festival will be allowed to vote for their favorite design.
The contest is just one of the activities at the festival which takes place at the Midland County Fairgrounds. Other events include:
• An array of antiques, collectibles, vintage and estate jewelry, architectural primitives, glass, fine art, pottery, vintage posters, advertising, silver, garden art, linens, furniture, military and more.
• Ongoing entertainment throughout the grounds with special entertainment in the car show area.
• The Michigan Vietnam Memorial Wall will be on display, along with a collection of classic military vehicles.
• Taste of Michigan & Shop Michigan Building — sample some of Michigan’s finest agriculture products and purchase other products created in Michigan.
• Coin and sports memorabilia building.
• Free appraisals in the Fair Center Building. Limit two per person.
• Michigan’s largest auto parts swap meet or find a unique car in the extensive Car 4-Sale area.
• Spectacular Car Show with DJ and prizes all day.
• Sixth annual Classic Car Auction.
Source: www.ourmidland.com
Antique show in St. Louis city appraising, buying old toys - KMOV
(KMOV)—An antique toy show is in St. Louis for two days allowing people to get appraisals on antique toys and sell them on the spot.
The FX Antique Show will be at the Hampton Inn on Oakland Avenue Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The staff will appraise any toy from the 1970’s and older.
The appraisers will then offer an on the spot, cash offer for participants’ toys.
The toy does not need to be in the original packaging.
Source: www.kmov.com
Oldies are goodies at Colonial Antique Mall - Northwest Herald
WOODSTOCK – Lee Muto has been doing this for a long time. She knows a good piece of furniture when she sees it.
And, from where she’s standing, they aren’t making it anymore.
“The couples I’ve been doing business with for 30 years, the stuff they bought 30 years ago is in great shape still,” Muto said. “There’s nothing you buy new today that will be good in 30 years, I’ll tell you that.”
The 69-year-old Muto speaks directly about the way the industry has shifted since she got into it 41 years ago. She began simply refinishing furniture but today owns Colonial Antique Mall in Woodstock. The store is celebrating 15 years in business this year.
The mall sells antiques made before 1969, about 80 percent of which is brought in from independent sellers. Muto has 70 different dealers in her store, which she said makes it in some ways like 70 different businesses.
Muto still restores furniture at her shop. She sees the new stuff on the market as it comes in for repair.
“We’re hoping that people will wake up once their chair falls apart for the sixth time,” she said.
Muto points to cheaply made Chinese imports – often constructed with composite wood – as a big reason she’s keeping busy on the restoration side of things.
But she’d like to see more interest in the craftsmanship that lasts – craftsmanship she said is plentiful in her 18,000-square-foot showroom. Items in the mall date back to as early as the mid-18th century.
“Young people want it cheap and they don’t really care too much about quality,” she said. “And most of the time they don’t know the difference.”
About four years ago, Muto decided to add on to her facility with another 17,000 square feet of furniture in a separate business called the Lake Avenue Bazaar.
It was an effort – a successful one, Muto said – to reach a younger demographic. The bazaar offers old, new and in-between items.
In general, the prices at the bazaar are slightly lower than at the antique mall. But it’s not as big of a difference as it once was.
Source: www.nwherald.com
National antique truck show pulls into Eastern States Exposition for weekend - Union-News & Sunday Republican
WEST SPRINGFIELD – Roger W. Gardner, of Suffield, Conn., lived just 10 months shy of seeing his dream come true.
“Do you think I’ll be alive to see it,” he had even questioned one of his daughters two years ago when the American Truck Historical Society pushed back its plans to bring its national convention and antique truck show to the Eastern States Exposition grounds from 2010 to 2012.
Gardner found the 1930s-vintage International C-60 abandoned in a cornfield years ago on a farm where he’d worked as a young man, and its restoration was a work in progress when he died last July at age 85, still dreaming of having it entered in the national show that would be held right up the road from where he lived and plied his trade with trucks.
On Tuesday, Gail Haines brushed away tears more than once as she and her sister, Jane D’Agostino, watched the C-60 lead the way with two other of their dad’s antique trucks when they rolled onto the exposition grounds for the national antique truck show. The show opens on Thursday, and Gardner is to be recognized for his work for the society and its Nutmeg Chapter.
“These are his friends,” Haines said, motioning to some of the men who helped pave the path for the C-60 to arrive at the show. “This is when you know the real heart of Suffield and of the antique truck community.”
Harold F. Willard, of Harold’s Garage in Northampton, an 84-year-old legend in the towing business and member of the truck society for decades, made certain his buddy’s precious cargo arrived in tip-top shape for the show.
“We’re like a big family,” said Willard after watching two of his grandsons unload Gardner’s trucks from his own more youthful vehicles, a 1964 Kenworth and a 1978 Autocar flatbeds, which are also entered in the show. Willard and Gardner belonged to the same chapters, and it had been at Gardner’s construction company several years ago where Willard received his award for 50 years of achievement with the truck society.
Willard’s gesture was just the cart after the horse, so to speak, in the process by family and friends to complete the restoration of the C-60.
The project started out as a Thursday morning gathering for a team of volunteers from across Western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut. But, as the national show drew closer, the tempo picked up quickly; the mornings blended into the afternoons, and, in at least one case, night fell before the work for the day was done, Haines said.
The list of helpers was many. Calvin Pixley, of Westfield, was the mastermind behind the mechanics of the truck, Gardner’s son-in-law Richard D’Agostino (along with his wife) handled the paint job on the cab that’s emblazoned with “R.W. Gardner, ” on each door. Someone else donated the gas tank, and another friend dropped off some vintage burlap bags bearing the name of the Eastern States Farmers Exchange to adorn the truck bed for its display at the big show.
It was Bob Sullivan, of Suffield, who had oak boards milled from trees felled right on his property to rebuild the bed of the truck to honor his friend, and it was Sullivan who was behind the wheel as the truck pulled up for registration day. “It was a long haul to get it to this point,” said Sullivan. “This is Roger’s last hurrah. His dream was to bring the C-60 to the Big E.”
Source: www.masslive.com
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