Houston Antiques Show includes Appraisal Fair

Antiquing made easy

The Houston Museum’s 34th annual Chattanooga Antiques Show will take place Friday through March 16 in the Grand Central Station at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo, 1400 Market St.

The event will actually kick off with a preview party at 7 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $75 per person for the party, and reservations are required.

Admission is $15 for the show for all three days. Show hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday.

The popular Appraisal Fair is Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $5 per item, plus show admission.

For more information, call the Houston Museum at 267-7176.

PARTICIPATING DEALERS

(To date)

Akanthus Gallery

18th-century American, English and continental furniture, art and accessories

A.E. Runge Jr. Oriental Rugs

Antique and pre-1930 Persian and caucasian decorative village rugs and carpets

Patricia Barger

American period furniture, paintings and tall case clocks

Benchmark of Palm Beach

Fine vintage jewelry and diamonds

Collectanea

Antique and estate jewelry

Davis-O’Reilly Antiques

Fine art, clocks, Black Forest carvings and accessories

Derek & Tina Rayment Antiques

Antique barometers

Donald Storrar Bethune

18th- and 19th-century English and continental furniture, silver, porcelain and decorative accessories

Edward L. Steckler /Patricia Cobb

English smalls, early blown glass, corkscrews, matchsafes, jewelry, silver and paintings

Flo-Blue Shoppe

Flow blue china and Victorian jewelry

Heritage Jewelry

Antique jewelry and watches

Michael and Claire Higgins

Export porcelain, 19th- and 20thcentury paintings, period furniture and accessories

Merry Walk Antiques

Old French Faience, stone fruit, unusual wall decorations, quilts and painted smalls

Out of Brussels Antiques

Antique French and Belgian majolica

Perry-Joyce Fine Arts

18th- and 19th-century British needlework pictures and paintings, ceramics, papier mache and metalware

Zane Moss Antiques

Fine 18th- and 19th-century furniture and accessories, paintings, porcelain, Staffordshire and Masons Ironstone