Baltimore HUD Homes News

BALTIMORE, MD.:"Stand right here, look all the way down the carpeted aisle to the large urn of flowers at the end, and that is 900 feet, three football fields in length, with booth after booth of dealers on both sides

Kris Charamonde said proudly just prior to the opening of the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show. This huge event, now in its 28th annual season, opened on Thursday, August 28, and continued through Sunday, August 31.

The Baltimore Convention Center, downtown at the Inner Harbor, has never shone brighter than it did over those four days with dealers offering display upon display of jewelry, china and glassware, enough formal furniture to fill a castle, and silver, including a sterling silver tea caddy once owned by the famed English poet Lord Byron, complete with his authentic coat of arms. In addition to the United States, dealers came from France, England, Italy, Canada and Argentina, and offered paintings in all price ranges, from a few hundred dollars to a Monet and two Rockwells, filled the booths with well-polished furniture and displayed sculpture that ranged in size from a few inches to 6 to 8 feet.

A good number of booths featured Asian furniture, fabrics and paintings; a small number of pieces of real country antiques had crept onto the floor; and a 50-dealer antiquarian book fair dominated the center of the hall.

Baltimore Summer Antiques Show