Antiques Week in New Hampshire Draws Collectors From Across the Country
- William MS Doyle (1769-1828) American, Lived/Active Boston area, Massachusetts. Offered by Jeffrey Tillou Antiques.
Every August, dealers, collectors, and enthusiasts head to the White Mountain State for Antiques Week in New Hampshire. Now in its 58th year, the highly anticipated event includes some of the finest and most active Americana shows in the country. According to Jeffrey Tillou of Jeffrey Tillou Antiques in Litchfield, Connecticut, “The whole week has really become the epicenter of Americana...there’s so much going on and it draws people from all over the country. In addition to being a buying event for high-end clients and beginning collectors alike, it attracts people who simply want to learn more about Americana.”
Antiques Week will kick off on Tuesday, August 4, with the 22nd Annual MidWeek Antiques Show at the Douglas N. Everett Arena in Concord. Presented by Barnstar Productions, the two-day show features eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century antiques arranged in intimate room settings. Over sixty-five dealers, including Stephen Score and Stiles House Antiques, will be exhibiting at the show. In addition to engaging exhibitor displays, the MidWeek Antiques Show will feature two special events -- a show feature titled The Sum of the Parts, which will present sculpture assemblages by John Sideli, and a show exhibit titled A Tisket A Tasket, which will include early American baskets from MidWeek exhibitors’ private collections.
- Set of Four Windsor Side Chairs, c. 1805. Offered by Mark & Marjorie Allen Antiques.
On Wednesday, August 5, the Antiques in Manchester show will open at the Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. Now in its fourth year, the show offers a wide range of antiques, Americana, and art for collectors at every level -- a quality that has earned it the nickname “The Collectors’ Fair.” Antiques in Manchester, which is presented by DiSaia Management, aims to foster conversations between collectors and dealers. Don Olson of Don Olson Fine American Antiques and Folk Art in Rochester, New York, said, “I look forward to the time when the initial rush is over and I can go into more depth and detail on pieces that I really admire. It is enjoyable to discuss good pieces with those who understand them.” Olson, who has been exhibiting at Antiques Week in New Hampshire for a decade, will have plenty to discuss at the show. He said, “I am known for eighteenth to early nineteenth century American antiques and folk art at the intersection of early and color, and my offerings focus on that color -- that includes folk paintings, paint decorated boxes, trade signs, gameboards, furniture, weathervanes, and a splendid selection of small case items. Among them is a portrait that has been in the sitter’s family since it was painted in 1850. I have trade signs ‘to die for,’ a brilliant early parcheesi board, and a child’s-size blanket chest with a dramatic scalloped base in blue paint, a multi-light early tin chandelier, and many more.”
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- Joshua Shaw, oil and charcoal on canvas, circa 1825. Offered by Steven S. Powers Works of Art & Americana.
Jeffrey Tillou, who has been exhibiting at Antiques Week in New Hampshire for upward of seventeen years, will also be exhibiting at this year’s Antiques in Manchester show. Tillou, who specializes in Americana and fine art from the early eighteenth century through the mid nineteenth century, will mainly concentrate on high country Americana at the show, including painted furniture, sculpture, and weathervanes. Tillou said, “The Antiques in Manchester show has a different buying atmosphere. It’s easier for people to make decisions at this show…[Often], the action starts before the show and the pre-show buying and selling can be the best part for a dealer.”
As Antiques in Manchester winds down on Thursday, August 6, the 58th Annual New Hampshire Antiques Show will just be getting started. Held at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, the New Hampshire Antiques Show is sponsored by the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association and features a stunning array of both country and formal antique furniture and accessories including clocks, folk art, paintings and prints, textiles, ceramics, architectural and garden ornaments, and much more. This year’s show will welcome sixty-seven exhibitors -- all of whom are members of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association -- including Brock & Co., Kelly Kinzle, and Peter Sawyer. Brock & Co.’s President, Mark Brock, said, “The New Hampshire Antiques Show is the longest running Antiques Week show and it’s the anchoring event -- it’s the one that everyone kind of looks forward to.” Brock, who is the only New Hampshire Antiques Show dealer specializing strictly in fine art, added, “The show attracts a very loyal customer base and you see some of the same people every year and they’re coming from all over the country. We do business up there, which is neat. Last year, people were really in the mood to buy and a lot of the buyers were new to us and some bought a few things after the show, which is always nice. As a dealer, that’s the kind of relationship you want to cultivate at a show.”
- Charles Henry Gifford (1839-1904) "Frenchman’s Bay, Mount Desert Island, Maine," 1874. Oil on canvas, 12 x 20 inches. Signed and dated at lower right: C. H. Gifford / 74, Gifford style frame. Offered by Brock & Co.
The New Hampshire Antiques Show will run through Saturday, August 8.
