We dropped by this year's Connecticut Spring Antiques Show in Hartford, presented by the Haddam Historical Society. It was an excellent edition of this always-popular event, and here are some fun and fascinating things we saw:
A family of blown-glass bottle in Peter Eaton’s booth
A skeptical cat at David Good Antiques
Leatherwood Antiques presented a typically engaging tableau
An Asian-inspired aesthetic movement chair from Firehouse Antiques
James Kilvington offered a great rooster weather vane
A pair of c. 1830 tole sconces from Grace and Elliott Snyder
Oddfellows are odd fellows, as painted symbols from Steven Still attest
A Sheraton secretary and brass candlesticks from Thomas Schwenke
A rabbit with a black eye at Jewett and Berdan
A c. 1840 shirred rug offered by Jewett and Berdan
Liverpool transferware from Samuel Herrup
Compelling signage in Paul and Karen Wendhiser’s booth
The cast-iron log you’ve been looking for at Thistlethwaite Americana
The carved sunburst on a late eighteenth-century Connecticut chest-on-chest from Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques
