Tolland Antiques Show Now In Its 57th Year

TOLLAND, CT — The always-popular Tolland Antiques Show is back for a 57th year.

It is sponsored by the Tolland Historical Society and is scheduled for Sunday, March 1 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Tolland Middle School.

The show is being staged with its partner, Goosefare Antiques & Promotions of Saco, Maine.

Here is the official billing:

Owned by John and Elizabeth DeSimone, Goosefare has been promoting high-quality antiques show throughout New England for 40 years.

Antiques lovers: make plans to come to the Tolland show, which will feature dealers from throughout New England, Pennsylvania and New York. It has been one of the premier events in the Northeast dealing in early Americana for more than five decades.

The show will feature 18th- and 19th-century American furniture, accessories, textiles, rugs, prints, folk art, paintings, redware and early iron. Many items are of museum quality.

Admission is $10. Parking is free, and lunch will be available provided by the world famous Wilington Pizza for a modest price.

The show is a benefit for the Tolland Historical Society, with proceeds supporting the three museums the society operates, the Old Tolland County Court House Museum, the Old Tolland County Jail and Museum, the Daniel Benton Homestead Museum, and the Tolland Military Museum, which it sponsors. Proceeds also support the many programs that the society holds for the public and its curriculum-related programs in the Tolland school system.

There’s still time for Tolland-area businesses to take advantage of special advertising pricing by bundling ads in the Antiques Show Book, the society’s quarterly newsletter, the Tolland Times, and at its website, tollandhistorical.org.

For details, contact Show Director Mary-Pat Soucy at mpsoucy@comcast.net or 860-803-0034.