Calendar of shows

Magazine Antiques, Jan, 2005

January 7-9, 2005. Fort Lauderdale, FL. FORT LAUDERDALE ANTIQUES WORLD 2005. Greater Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Blvd, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316. Show hours: Friday, 12-8pm; Saturday, 12-7pm; Sunday, 12-6pm; Admission: $8; good all 3 days; children under 12 free. Fort Lauderdale's largest antiques extravaganza with 150 international exhibitors. Antiques World is distinguished by its many room setting displays, and attracts large numbers of interior designers & home decorators. A wide range of period furniture & decorative antique accessories. Appraisal fair benefits the Humane Society.

January 7-9. West Palm Beach, FL. PALM BEACH WINTER ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE. Location has been changed due to the hurricane, now located at the Marriott, West Palm Beach, 1001 Okeechobee Blvd. To benefit The International Children's Museum. Celebrating 23 years this highly diversified and vetted antiques show features 50 dealers of renown with emphasis on period furniture and accessories, fine arts, painting and more. Items for the serious collector, the designer and those who just love antiques. Hours Friday, Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pm. Admission $14.00 and includes repeat admission. Reception & Preview Party Thursday, January 6, 5:30-9:30pm. Tickets $150.00 each. Lectures include Claudia Miller "Romantic Hotels of the Past", "45 years at Mar-A-Lago" by Anthony Senecal, Butler to Majorie Merriweather Post & Donald Trump, and Aruthur Samuels, "Current Diamond Market". For additional information and reservation please call the International Childrens Museum, (561) 835-0808. Zita Waters Bell, Mgt. (561) 483-4047.

January 14, 15, 16, 2005. Annapolis, MD. 35th ANNUAL HISTORIC ANNAPOLIS ANTIQUES SHOW. Celebrating its 35th year, the Historic Annapolis Antiques Show will feature dealers from around the country with American and English period furniture and clocks; paintings, watercolors, and prints; pottery and porcelain; Oriental rugs; jewelry and silver; children's books; folk art; garden furniture and ornament; and much more. Special events include a Gala Preview Party on Thursday, January 13, 6-9 p.m.; a Lecture, Friday, January 14, 12 Noon, by Dr. Oscar Fitzgerald on "Sources of the Federal Style;" a Symposium, Saturday, January 15, 9:00 a.m., "Furniture During the time of John Shaw, Annapolis Cabinetmaker;" and an exhibit of Recent Acquisitions to the Collections of Historic Annapolis Foundation. The show is held at the National Guard Armory, Hudson St. off West St., outside of Annapolis in Parole. Admission is $8. Hours are Friday and Saturday, 11-6, and Sunday, 12-5. Lunch is available daily. The show benefits Historic Annapolis Foundation and its mission of preserving the distinctive quality of Maryland's Capital City. For information on special events, call Historic Annapolis Foundation, 410.267.7619, or request a show brochure on www.ArmacostAntiquesShows.com--410-961-5121.

January 14-16, 2005. Miami, FL. MIAMI NATIONAL ANTIQUES SHOW. Sheraton (formerly Radisson) Center at Miami Merchandise Mart, 777 NW 72nd Ave., Miami, FL 33126. Show hours: Friday, 12-9pm; Saturday, 12-8pm; Sunday, 12-6pm; Preview: Friday, 10am-noon; Preview admission: $40 per person. Admission: $8; good all 3 days; children under 12 free. One of the nation's largest, high quality antiques shows, with more that 400 exhibitors from the U.S., Canada, Latin America, and Europe. The show attracts huge numbers of serious foreign buyers. Most merchandise is being seen for the first time in South Florida. Continental period furniture, sterling, European porcelains, and fine jewelry are especially sought after by Latin and European collectors. Early-buying preview at 10 a.m. Friday, January 14.

January 15 and 16, 2005. St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. MAHOGANY AUCTIONS is an annual auction featuring fine, antique, West Indian mahogany furniture from the 1700s and 1800s. Though the focus of the auction is on items made in the U.S. Virgin Islands, namely St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John (the former Danish West Indies), the auction also presents items made during the colonial era on the other sugar islands of the Caribbean--Barbados, Jamaica, and Cuba being some of the most prominent. Antiques made in Europe of exotic Caribbean woods are also offered. And punctuating the auction are a number of intriguing "smalls": a pair of mother-of-pearl opera glasses; a sterling silver corkscrew by Georg Jensen; rare books and maps; a 1950s' motorbike, equipped with all its original special features; a vintage leopardskin coat from a 1940s' socialite; and wine from the 1800s, for example. The collection was hand-picked by St. Croix-born fashion designer/lawyer/historian Wayne James from some of Scandinavia's finest homes and oldest families. James has been collecting colonial antiques of the West Indies for over 20 years and boasts one of the world's leading, privately held collections. All items for the January 2005 auction are museum-quality, and over 200 lots will be presented. Preview Party: Monday, January 10, 2005. Auction Preview: Tuesday, January 11 to Friday, January 14, 2005. Auction (lots 1-99): Saturday, January 15, 2005. Auction (lots 100-225): Sunday, January 16, 2005. Location: Walsh Metal Works Gallery, 14-A Estate Peter's Rest, Chistiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information, visit: www.Mahogany-Auctions.com.