WILLIAMSBURG, VA. — Welcome to Williamsburg, the Colonial Capital of Virginia, where liberty began, where history abounds and the tradition continues. The day after Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season. Come  join the festivities at The Holiday Antiques Show, November 23–25, at the Williamsburg, Kingsmill Marriott, where for 26 years it has offered the alternative to mall shopping for local residents and the many holiday visitors during the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Local area residents have been waiting to acquire the best in antique home furnishings, while the visitors come looking for holiday shopping for their very special purchases. The show is for discriminating collectors as well as gift buyers.

This year’s show is especially strong in the areas of Eighteenth Century furniture, American clocks and Nineteenth Century artworks. Tour the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum to see some of the same pieces that are offered at the Holiday Antiques Show.

Our show this year includes 33 dealers from 13 states and the United Kingdom. One of the shows’ long-time dealers, John Long of Mineral, Va., has announced that this will be his last show as he is retiring. We cordially invite all of John’s friends to come and wish him well. He will be deeply missed, and of course we invite him to come back anytime.

 The event is diversified, although it is primarily a room-setting show. The antiques must be Eighteenth or Nineteenth Century with no vintage collectibles or crafts. Period and country furniture and accessories, excellent old lighting, prints and paintings, fine ceramics, high-quality glass, estate jewelry and antique silver are some of the offerings.

This years dealers include Neverbird Antiques, Josephine Hart Thrasher, Brills Antiques, Louis W. Sikkelee, Apropos, Inc, Antiques at the Old Store, Maxine Wolff Shapiro Fine Antiques, John Long and Garden Party Antiques, all from Virginia; Cynthia Rankin Antiques & Interiors and Holder Antiques from North Carolina; Mad River Antiques, Easter Hill Antiques, Patricia Barger, Richmond House Antiques and Poverty Hollow, all from Connecticut; and from Massachusetts, Antique Prints, Quelle Surpise Antiques and The Brewster Shop.

Also included are  McNiel-Reed, Shaeffer’s Antiques and Mary Jane Barr, all from Maryland; Anna’s Antiques, Georgia; At the Sign of the Sycamore, Pennsylvania; Marie Miller Antiques, Vermont; Keystone Antiques, Ohio; Christopher English Antiques, Florida; and Antiques of London, England,.        

While traveling the countryside to New England, New York, Washington, D.C., and Nashville looking for the best dealers, I am ever reminded that it is you the faithful buyers and collectors to whom we are indebted for 26 years of a successful antique show.

Thank you,

Bettianne Sweeney