Madison-Bouckville Antique Festival Day 1

Wednesday, August 17 2011 Well, spent the day at the Madison-Bouckville Antique Festival in Madison NY today. It was a beautiful day to go antiquing, sunny, warm, no rain and lots of merchandise to look at. I started the day in the field behind the Hinman Hotel helping my friends get their booth set up for the day. It was about 9AM before i headed out with my camera. My goal for the day was to promote my website marketsquare.us. The field behind the Hinman hotel was good a place to start as any. Most dealers i spoke to were quite receptive to my site though about 20% did not use the internet or even own a computer. This photo is of the field from the road

During my walk i saw a lot of beautiful things, some fairly common a d some quite rare and just about everything in between. This particular dealer had some very nice items including meerschaum pipes

A very nice short sword that appeared to me to be Persian in origin and

a very cool signal canon is excellent condition.