Antiques Appraisal - Windsor Connecticut Chamber Of Commerce

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860-688-5165
261 Broad St, Windsor, CT 06095

September, 2008

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Event:

Antiques Appraisal

Date:

September 13th, 2008

Category:

Historical Soc.

Were you too late to get tickets for August's Antiques Roadshow event in Hartford and didn't want to pay scalper ticket prices? All is not lost. On Saturday, September 13th from 1-4 p.m., a bevy of Connecticut's antiques experts will be on hand at Windsor Historical Society to look at your family treasures and tell you more about them: their age, condition and value, and how best to care for them. Perhaps your family has carefully preserved a great-grandmother's wedding dress. Or maybe there's an upholstered gilt chair that, according to family tradition, was smuggled out of France during the French Revolution. Or perhaps you purchased an oil-painted landscape from an antiques dealer years ago for a song and can't quite make out the artist's signature. You want to find out what's involved in cleaning and conservation of the painting and whether its value warrants the cost of conservation.

Ed Nadeau, owner of Windsor's own Nadeau's Auction Gallery Inc. will be on hand to provide expertise on fine and decorative arts, furniture, and Orientalia. Paul Russ from the Waterford area is also lending his expertise on fine and decorative arts for the afternoon. Expert Michele Enman from the Essex area will appraise clothing, handbags, and costume jewelry, and regional expert Richard Murphy will provide insights on old books. So if you've ever been curious about family heirlooms such as clothing and textiles, furniture, glass, ceramics, metal goods, toys, and jewelry, here is your chance to find out more. Your cost is $5 per item and you are limited to 5 items to be appraised. Please bring items to the Windsor Historical Society, 96 Palisado Avenue (Route 159) between 1 and 4 p.m. on September 13th. Depending on foot traffic, you may have to wait a little, but the Society's Faces of Windsor exhibition will be open for viewing and it is often enjoyable as well as educational to listen to what experts say about artifacts others bring in. Parking is available around Palisado Green and in the Windsor Discovery Center and First Church parking lots.

These events are part of an exciting year-long round of programs planned by Windsor Historical Society, the Town of Windsor, and the Windsor Chamber of Commerce. For more information about these programs, please visit www.windsorhistoricalsociety.org or www.Windsor375.com. Many generous sponsors and supporters have helped to make Windsor Historical Society's events possible including:
Presenting Sponsors: Anonymous Donor; Connecticut Humanities Council; Greater Hartford Arts Council, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; Windsor Federal Savings
Adventurer Sponsors: Dan J. and Alice Ford Ferraina; Travelers Connecticut Foundation

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Discoverer Sponsors: Alstom Power, Anonymous Donor, Middle Oak Specialty Insurance;
Founder Sponsors: Anonymous Donor; Dill, Joyce & Thresher Insurance; ING; Jim and Kathi Martin; Rabbett
Insurance Agency, Savings Bank Life Insurance
Settler Sponsors: Alford Associates, Inc.; Bill Selig Family Foundation; Carmon Funeral Homes; Elizabeth Feser; Griffin Land and Nurseries, Inc.; HD2 Development; Marcia Hinckley; Price Chopper; Rotary Club of Windsor; RTI CT; Stop and Shop Supermarkets; Webster Bank.

The Windsor Historical Society, founded in 1921, invites visitors to explore the people, places, and events that have shaped Windsor for over 370 years. The Society's museum includes changing and permanent exhibition galleries; a hands-on history learning center for families; a research library and manuscript collection housing Windsor photographs, documents, ephemera, and genealogical materials, a museum shop and two historic houses open to the public--the 1758 John and Sarah Strong House and the 1767 Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House.

The Windsor Historical Society is located at 96 Palisado Avenue (Route 159) and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. General admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and students and free to children under 12 and WHS members. Call (860) 688-3813 or visit us on the web at www.windsorhistoricalsociety.org for directions to the Society and more information about programs.