I arrived at 9AM after an hour drive. Some of the parking lots were already full. But I found a good space for $7.
Aerial shot. It's a HUGE affair with tent-stalls of hundreds of antiques dealers and traffic, food stands, and people everywhere, try not to run anyone over!
Typical scene at the Fair. Not shown in the picture, I thought better of buying a Samurai sword, thrones from 1800 ($2500), and a church altar!
My booty today: yellow bench, red book case, and 3 old panel doors. The bench is to become my TV stand. The stereo and everything else can go on the handy lower shelf! The red bookcase is to become a night stand.
"the yellow bench was a factory work table at the Winchester gun factory in Connecticut" said Ellen. The factory closed 12 years ago and Ellen had bought the bench and used in her house.
"this door was originally in a colonial house built 1920 in Kew Gardens (Queens, NY). we are re-doing the house and selling some of the old doors." Said Latif's wife about the white 5-panel door in the picture below. "the house was probably built by Irish workers because a we found a cross in the wall beams. Then a Jewish family owned the house, and now we own it and we're Muslim!" said Latif's wife who's name I did not get. The other two doors I bought for $25 apiece from another vendor, who loaned me the yellow tiedown cord (you can almost see it on my car in the picture below) because I was one short. Those would fetch $200 each new as custome doors at Home Depot. These antique doors probably weigh much more, and are of better quality, than a new Home Depot door would.
Refinishing the doors will be a project for a few weeks! The doors will become the basement door, downstairs bathroom door, & door to the two far rooms downstairs. I'll probably hit the fair again Saturday for more furnishings...
2 comments:
Some great buys!! Wish I could have been there. Sounds like a lot of fun!! Good luck Saturday.
mom
Yowza!
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