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Newspaper Article
Three Times a Year, The Village Gets an Itch
1988
Overview
Among the collectibles most frequently found at different dealers' stalls during last September's market: claw-footed bathtubs; Victorian clocks; battered chess boards with fading paint (to be made into tables or wall hangings); turn-of-the-century ads (especially popular if they're promoting food or kitchen appliances); stuffed animals; distressed (or scarred) tavern tables; big roll-top desks; top-heavy grandfather clocks; mock and real Tiffany lamps; brass and porcelain door knobs; Victorian sofas and chairs; meticulously made ship models; thickly pressed Depression glass; pine sea chests; Hitchcock chairs (some with original stenciling); floral-decorated chamber pots; silver flatware and coffee services of all periods; yarn winders; butter churns; Windsor chairs; battered gramophones; 30's watches; music boxes; one-arm bandits; quilts; faded horses from dismantled carrousels; antique dolls with delicately painted china faces; gilt mirrors, and a wide assortment of European and American prints and paintings - and reproductions. Brimfield's 21 fields are privately owned and operated by residents who do their own advertising and who contribute funds to pay for the extra police, ambulance, fire and emergency-dispatcher help needed when the markets are open. It originated some 30 years ago, when Gordon Reid, a town resident, began conducting a one-day auction in the field behind his home. By 1967, the auction had evolved into a one-day show, held twice a year. Soon owners of abutting fields were joining in, renting space to dealers, and the flea market operation started to grow. Today, Mr. Reid's daughters, Jill Lukesh and Judith Mathieu, run the largest of the markets - Antique Acres, Auction Acres - with more than 700 dealers. So successful are their fields that they charge a $2 admission fee, as does May's Antique Market, the second largest with 500 dealers. (Entrance to the other markets is free.) The market runs for a complete week, Saturday to Saturday, but not all the fields are open the entire week, nor are all the displaying dealers present every day. By staggering the opening days, the opening hours and the presence of the dealers, nearly every day offers something new. A visitor might want to stay the entire week if his physical stamina and pocketbook permit, or he might select one or two days when his preferred fields are open. (Some fields have better reputations, and the rush, when their gates open, rivals any stampede for tickets to the Super Bowl.) ''Heart-o-the Mart, for example, the third largest field, with 400 dealers, is open from Sunday to Saturday; Antique Acres, Auction Acres, the Reid daughters' operation, is open from Thursday to Saturday, and May's Antique Mart is open Wednesday through Saturday.
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New York Times Company
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