March 13 and 14, 2010

Connecticut Expo Center
265 Rev. A. Moody Overpass, Hartford, CT
Exit 33 off I-91

Admission $10
Saturday Hours 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday Hours 11 am to 4 pm

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70 Extraordinary Dealers featuring pre-1840 American Furniture and Appropriate Accessories.

Booth Chats 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Free with admission

12:30 pm Jeff and Holly Noordsy Specialists in Early American Antique Bottles and Glass Early Connecticut Glass Houses and their Wares 1790-1830

1:30 pm John Keith Russell of John Keith Russell Antiques and Arthur Liverant of Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques Polar Opposites- an interactive discussion about American Antiques

2:30 pm Judith Livingston Loto Russack and Loto Books Kindle can't Cut it-Real Books for Real Collectors

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Haddam Collects Exhibit

The show entry will feature an exhibit titled “Haddam Collects-Quilts Comfort Your Soul”, a display of antique quilts loaned by friends and members of the Haddam Historical Society and curated by Isabelle Seggerman. Two of the quilts on display are friendship quilts made in Haddam in the mid-19 th century. Friendship quilts were made to celebrate a special event like a birth or marriage. Others were made to commemorate a major milestone or community event and many were made as going away gifts to dear friends, neighbors or clergy. The friendship quilt became popular in the 1840s when the country was experiencing a great migration and many families were leaving their New England roots for lands to the west. The quilts would feature blocks with the signatures of family and neighbors or precious messages from friends left behind.

Frances Dallas (shown in photo) will display a friendship quilt made by members of the Haddam Neck Congregational Church in 1847. One of the squares is signed by her great-great grandmother “Elizabeth M. Gillette” as well as other members of the church including men. The quilt has been passed down through the generations and is a prized family piece. Frances herself is a quilter and made a similar quilt for the retiring minister of the Haddam Neck Church a few years ago. The antique quilt features the chimney sweep pattern (also called the pioneer friendship album) using mid-19 th century fabric of blues and browns.

Another quilt on display will be an interesting T-shaped quilt made for a four poster bed featuring a simple pieced motif and dating between 1780 and 1830. A recent acquisition to the Thankful Arnold House Museum the quilt was found in an auto repair shop about to be used as a drop cloth for oil changes. Fortunately the customer had a deep respect for quilts and rescued the piece. Other antiques quilts on display come from the mid-west, upstate New York and Vermont.

 

 

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