Antiques Show Offers Wide Variety

This year, 32 vendors have set up shop to display their wares in room-like settings, often complete with rugs and lighting, at the Heritage Antiques Show at Huntington High School.

For those with an eye for a fun piece of bling or a more staid bowl, lamp, clock or painting have many choices at the show which continues today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the gym.

Sponsored by the Huntington Historical Society, the event is one of the organization's big fund-raisers of he year, said Robert “Toby” Kissam, executive coordinator.

Lunch is available, with tables to relax and grab a sandwich from Good 2 Go. There’s an ATM on-site in the gym for purchases which require cash. Admission is $7.

Goods range from fine jewelry to costume jewelry from the '60s, turquoise and Southwestern-theme silver jewelry, prints and paintings, glass, china, furniture, Japanese prints and Imari ware, and old maps. There are high-end photo frames, stained glass lamps that are done in a geometric style, fancy porcelain antique lamps and lamps made of carnival glass, as well as polished copper pots, ivory mahjong sets and a huge copper kettle fit for washing any number of things.

Melodee Gandia of Huntington left the show happy, carrying an architectural detail piece of molding that she planned to hang and perhaps use to display plates or paintings.

“My eye goes to that type of detail,” she said, and planned to return today in search of more or different finds.

Collectors of blue and white china have their choice of flow blue or willow ware, while candlestick collectors can choose from offerings of crystal, brass and wood. One vendor had some Long Island glass bottles, and there were several pottery pieces made by the old Brown Brothers pottery in Huntington.

Lara and Anton Kohut had their eye on an antique table clock, discussing which of two wooden 30-hour clocks they preferred as they took a break to feed their son, Ryan. Time will tell, as they left the decision for today.

One vendor had porcelain dogs for any occasion, along with jewelry in the shape of paw prints and different dogs. The name of his business? Doghouse Antiques, of course.

Barbara Peter of Barbara Peter Antiques in Sayville unfolded an antique blanket that had the name Caroline Newton woven into it. The blue and brown Jacquard weave was of linsey-woolsey, a linen and wool fabric common in earlier times because it was warm and affordable. It’s too heavy for her to want to use it as a coverlet, Peter said, hefting the heavy blanket, but it's a fun local history tidbit because it memorializes a small section of Ronkonkoma that used to be called Newton.

And for those with slightly more modern tastes, a print and art vendor had pop-art prints of the Beatles, while another had postcards and a framed print of the Three Stooges from their TV show.