Even before we decided to come to New England Jason and I had heard about and knew that we wanted to go to the Brimfield Antique Show if we ever got a chance. Brimfield is the largest and most well known outdoor antique show in the states and is more than a half mile wide of just vendor after vendor selling the most interesting antiques and collectibles!
When we realized that we would be here for one of the three shows a year we were so excited!
We booked it to Brimfield, MA which is basically in the center of the state...
The town of Brimfield is fairly small, and is usually only about 10,000 people...
But on show days, apparently the town triples in size! Jason and I got there pretty early so it was quiet and we could get a good look at the vendors without fighting crowds.
The vendors were selling everything you could imagine!
From vintage pyrex... which apparently is a huge seller now...
to old furniture that seemed to have seen better days...
to even a San Francisco trolley photo booth set up! What?!
By mid afternoon it was getting HOT! Luckily there was fresh-squeezed lemonade basically around every corner!
One of the year round antique establishments...
My goal for this trip was to get a vintage flatware set...
I finally settled on the Depression-Era "Coronation" 12 piece set which will be used for whomever comes to our house for dinner from now on!
Whoopie! I have not had a dinner party for over a year now and I am EXCITED!
The hotter it got it seemed the more people showed up. The show is situated along a half mile strip of "main street" and by early afternoon the traffic had backed up significantly...
As did the people!
We decided before we left we would make one last stop to pick up some milk glass bedside lamps. We walked around and around looking for the booth we had seen earlier and could not find them at all!
Lesson learned...
If you see something you want at Brimfield, PICK IT UP IMMEDIATELY!
What I did get other than the flatware set was a CT license plate to go with my Wisconsin one, and some very cute milk glass salt and pepper shakers.
All in all, I think we were pretty successful!
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Stamford, CT
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