Labor Day will bring a feast for antique lovers in the Baltimore area as a major convention kicks off. Presentations will include lectures by local experts, such as: "Eureka! The Archimedes Palimpsest" with the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum; "American Beauty: Treasuring and Collecting Folk Art in America;" "Dining in Style with Georg Jensen Silver;" "18th & 19th Century Decorative Arts Treasures: Telling the Whole Story;" and "Meissen: 300 Years of Exceptional Porcelain."
An excerpt from the blog posting reads:
Dealers attending The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
will be offering a huge variety of first-class antiques for sale
ranging in prices from under $100 to upwards of $1 million. And with
over 200,000 individual pieces, ranging from antiquities to 20th
century pieces, there's something for ever antique lover.
The show hosts 60 rare book dealers, 60 silver specialists, more
than 30 Asian art dealers, ceramics on sale from over 70 exhibitors and
hundreds of other dealers covering virtually every period and style of
antiques.
Read the entire posting here.