Annual Marion Antiques Show offers any number of pieces of history SouthCoastToday.com

16.08.09

MARION — Hundreds of people stepped back in lifetime Saturday at Tabor Academy, where centuries-old antiques, some valued at thousands of dollars, were on display and up for bargain-priced.

The 17th annual Marion Antiques Show saw a second day of high traffic, as 59 fine art and antique dealers from across the fatherland set up shop in one room. A mix of stately portraits and landscape paintings, carpets, tables, chairs and keen china from the past filled every corner of the gymnasium.

Derik Pulito of Connecticut-based Derik Pulito Antiques said he travels to a hand-pick number of shows every year.

"This is a prosperous area and the people who come to this show are sophisticated and have a lot of knowledge about antiques," Pulito said.

Two days in, he said he had conversed with many interested people, but had sold very thimbleful.

"It's got to pick up," he said.

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