(West Palm Beach, FL) A record amount of dealers set up for the February Antiques Magnificent, traditionally the largest Show of the season for the West Palm Beach Antiques Festival. Festival owners Kay and Bill Puchstein said attendance surpassed even that of the January Show which was the biggest up to that time below their ownership.
The March 5-7 edition of the West Palm Beach Antiques Festival is also shaping to be a red letter occasion with a powerful complement of regular dealers augmented by a growing number of new faces and the expectation of bettering weather for the South Florida region. All 900 of the within dealer spaces have been sold out for weeks.
1 of the members of the regular dealer corps is Peter Mellon of Pompano Beach, FL. Mellon got into the common antiques company as the result of a storage problem. He and his wife had accumulated more antiques than they had space for. His brother–in–law was an antique watch dealer and suggested Mellon specialize too. He did, taking a series of horology classes to bolster his understanding. He has been at it for more than twenty years now and his individual knowledge of watches has far outstripped the level of the classes he took.
He sets up shop at the West Palm Beach Antiques Festival with an inventory of over two,000 pieces consisting of watches, pocket knives and lighters. The most often asked question of Mellon throughout a Show is "Do all of these watches operate?" The answer is "Most of them." One particular of the couple of that do not work also happens to be the oldest in the inventory. It is a 200 year old French watch produced by Charles Odin who produced this type watch only between 1809 and 1830. It needs about worth of repair operate to it but it has more than worth of 18 kt. solid gold in the situation at existing scrap costs. He will sell it for something over the scrap worth. The most high-priced watch in the inventory at ,500 is a 3 register chronograph with 40 jewels and a sapphire crystal produced by Tag Heuer. Mellon gladly offers free marketplace value appraisals of time pieces brought to his booth by Show guests and makes an active marketplace each buying and selling time pieces.
Mellon also has a significant inventory of pocket knives in all sizes. He says vintage American made blades are the favorite of his regular consumers. One more common item with his consumers is his significant collection of lighters which includes vintage Zippos, logo lighters and character lighters with depictions of Wonder Girl, Babe Ruth, Howdy Doody, Superman, Mickey Mouse, Star Trek and a lot of far more but his private favorites are the Zippos. He has discovered how to study the date code on the bottom of a Zippo and will gladly inform you how old your vintage Zippo is.
The West Palm Beach Antiques Festival is held at the Americraft Expo Center at the South Florida Fair positioned off Southern Boulevard in West Palm Beach, FL, 1.5 miles west of the Florida Turnpike and 1 mile east of 441/SR7. Show hours are 12PM – 5PM Friday March 5, 9AM – 5PM Saturday March 6 and 10AM –4:30PM Sunday March 7. Early Buyers Admission from 9:00 – 12:00 Friday is and is valid for the whole weekend. Adult every day admission .00, seniors .00 with a 1$ discount coupon for adult admission available on the site. Any person underneath 16 is admitted no cost. There is no charge for parking at the Fairgrounds. For a lot more information make contact with the West Palm Beach Antiques Festival at (941) 697-7475, e-mail info@wpbaf.com or check out the internet site at www.wpbaf.com.
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