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No matches found.Antique Show & Sale this weekend
* New Bern Preservation Foundation
* New Bern Riverfront Convention Center
* 45 antique dealers; evaluators of two items brought in by each ticket-holder; raffle and representatives of N.C. Office of Unclaimed Properties on hand for data bank searches
* Friday, Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday: 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
* Tickets: $7 in advance, $8 at the door. Available at Mitchell Hardware, on Preservation Foundation Web site and at the door
* Diamond Sponsor, First Citizens Bank; Gold Partner, CarolinaEast Health System
* On the Web:
newbernpf.org
The 25th annual Antique Show & Sale has some new layers of opportunities for ticket-holders this week.
The three-day show — Friday to Sunday at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center — is a major fundraiser for the New Bern Preservation Foundation.
About 45 dealers are coming from all along the Atlantic Seaboard, from Delaware to Georgia, with 18th to 20th century furniture, decorative items and memorabilia.
A new feature this year has representatives of the N.C. Office of Unclaimed Properties on hand with computer data bases available to assist visitors in possibly finding property or money such as back pay and tax refunds.
Tryon Palace will participate in this year’s show with a booth and the Palace will also host a lecture for the dealers.
“Since the Palace is involved in historical preservation and we are involved in historical preservation, we’re being good neighbors and working together,” said Etteinne Mitchell, the antique show chairman.
Once again, there will be trained identifiers stationed upstairs to look at up to two items per ticket-holder for identification and evaluation.
“This is where you bring in a fiddler that has been in the garage all your life and you walk out finding out it was valued at $27,000,” Mitchell said as an example.
Identifiers include Michael Cable, Tom Faulkenberry, Dawn Fitts, CeCe Goin, Lynn Gorges, Will Gorges, Barbara Matthews and the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors.
Mitchell said historic tourism brings in about $4.8 million locally each year.
“They come to see our charming downtown New Bern,” Mitchell said, adding that the Preservation Foundation’s role in the city’s allure includes saving 63 historic properties.
The foundation has been working for several years with the city to restore the old city railroad depot and hopes to make significant progress this spring.
Antique show tickets are $7 in advance and $8 at the door. Tickets are available at Mitchell Hardware or on the Preservation Foundation Web site: newbernpf.org
Charlie Hall can be reached at 252-635-5667 or chall@freedomenc.com. Follow him on Twitter @charlierayhall.
