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York (PA) Antiques Show

8 years ago

Cold & windy GH day here. Having nothing better to do we ran up the country to the York Antiques Show & Sale. Am really glad we went, 96 vendors from eastern US. Primitive & period furniture and furnishings, lots & lots of them. If nothing else, this is a good place to get an education of what is worth something and what is not. Here's a couple items I saw:

table #1


table #2


I like table #2 a lot. As luck would have it, the front of my house has an enclosed porch with an odd, smallish door and I could never get the table inside. The show ends on Sunday, tell me how to get that table in my kitchen.

Comments (10)

  • 8 years ago

    I like it too....but not sure for 5K with the warped top...original or not, it's been wet at some point.
    It's only 29 inches....turn it on it's side, put the legs through and follow and make a turn for the 2nd set of legs....or try the back door.

  • 8 years ago

    I kinda like those chairs!

  • 8 years ago

    I kinda like those chairs! You're not the only one. At least for me, plank bottom chairs like those are really comfortable (unlike ladderbacks which go straight up)

    As for the table, it has a "harvest wing" which is like a mini-dropleaf. Today is the last day of the show, we're not going back for it.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Those prices!!!!! Good luck if they get them, but, wow.

    *Rushes back into the kitchen to look again at her ancient harvest table, 90" long x 26" wide, and muses whether it would fit through sam_md 's skinny kitchen door. *

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    I think a lot of us would agree that Mel Arion's York show is probably the best show of Antique American Country in Pennsylvania, but you're not going to find "run-of-the-mill" or "cheap" there.

    That doesn't mean you shouldn't go... It plays again late in September.

    If you'd rather do your looking online, many of the dealers there have links to their web sites.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Come to Illinois. We have weathered tables like that all over Southern Illinois and I wouldn’t pay $50 for any one of them. LOL

  • 8 years ago

    I'll bet you don't!

  • 8 years ago

    Well I was just out this past weekend to an antique warehouse in rural SI and I must have come across 10 tables that got rained on and looked about like those posted here. Since it is not my taste and not what I collect I didnt pay any attention to it. I will say, my friend and I laughed that we could not figure out who was decorating their house in the Beverly Hillbillies style - but yes, these old farm style tables are plentiful here. It is ironic that I live in a more rural area and we do everything we can to not make our interiors look like a farmers home and yet in the more populated East, that is what they want.

  • 8 years ago

    Oh my! You seem to not have an understanding of the difference between 18th century and early 19th century antiques, and Southern Illinois 20th century stuff stored in a barn.
    That's fine....more for the rest of us.

  • 8 years ago

    As I said, that genre is not my cup of tea. My knowledge base is English and French 18th & 19th Century furniture and paintings. And I have seen plenty of ”fakes” where someone tries to pass off a modern piece as an antique so upon inspection a manufactured table should be distinguishable. Very interesting topic though and I thank everyone for sharing. Always wanting to learn.

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