ANTIQUE SHOW PORTLAND EXPO CENTER FULL
ANTIQUE SHOW PORTLAND EXPO CENTER PLUS

The show opens to the public on Saturday and Sunday but offers an early entry pass for $30.00 that lets you in on Friday while the dealers set up. That did it…I figured if I was going to a Portland show I might as well go to the best one. Then I was talking to Ron and Sue Fox at the last Alameda show and they said this particualar Portland show was the best one of the year on account it’s the biggest and had dealers set up inside and out.

ANTIQUE SHOW PORTLAND EXPO CENTER PLUS

Plus another $500.00 or so I was likely to spend at the show equals a grand…so I decided I’d pass. Eleven hour drive equals about $300.00 in gas…three nights in a hotel equals at least another $200.00.…so that’s five hundred just to walk in. I had been considering going to this last one for a couple weeks, but decided not to go because of the cost. But it was one of those pieces I never forgot and left me wondering, as I sensed there was something important about it.Īnd then came Portland!….The Portland Expo show is a renown antiques show that’s been going for something like 30 years and it claims to be the largest antiques show in the country. I ended up not bidding on it because, in short, I felt I couldn’t fully comprehend the piece….I wasn’t exactly sure what the print was all about… and I just didn’t feel like plunking down money for something that really didn‘t turn my head to look at. They graciously sent multiple close in shots but I never got a reply to my question of whether the dimensions they gave were outside the frame or inside the mat or what ever. I emailed Hunt with questions and requested closer detailed photos. I sensed it was a great piece and a potential sleeper that might not get a lot of action. It was the first example I’d seen and the description said it was the first Hunt had seen…so if I hadn’t seen it….and Hunt hadn’t seen it…it’s rare! The description stated it was a “Unique Harvard baseball print“, and that it depicted the “Harvard baseball team posed in a campus setting” The photo didn‘t look like much, but the description was intriguing. Even that listing would have been easy to overlook. Here’s the whole story…back about a year ago Hunt had one of these in their March 2009 auction. Had I not seen another example once I may have walked right by and never noticed it. However…it’s all in the neighborhood and who the people are. All you see is a bunch of trees and a boring looking street scene with a lot of small illustrations of people. The print could easily be overlooked as it’s almost mundane. Walter Camp sitting next to fence post wearing moustache

Klackner, and the artist was Alfred Cornelius Howland. Above is one of the items I got an incredible print titled “The Yale Fence”. I made the eleven hour (one way) drive to the Portland Expo Antiques Show this last weekend and did real good…made four incredible finds…well actually…three incrdible finds and one pretty good one….I‘ll be posting a detailed account of the whole trip on my site pretty soon. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

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ANTIQUE SHOW PORTLAND EXPO CENTER FULL

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