From our July 2022 problem
Maps by MollyMaps
Seasoned collectors know: Maine’s reverence for historical past, abundance of outdated homesteads and estates, and generations of vacationer site visitors make the Pine Tree State an antiquing vacation spot par excellence. With a lot to comb by means of, the place’s a choosy picker to begin? We’ve rounded up 40 of our favourite antiques shops, classic outlets, flea markets, and extra, following 4 winding routes throughout the state. Treasure hunters, it’s road-trip time.
THE MIDCOAST
By Virginia M. Wright
Cabot Mill Antiques, Brunswick
Greater than a soccer area, this former cotton-mill spinning room is neatly sectioned into 160 stalls and glass instances, every displaying a service provider’s idiosyncratic pursuits, be they rainbows of Fifties Fiestaware; salvaged drawer pulls, coat hooks, and cleats; framed copies of Maine city maps from 1880; or seashells, coral, and animal bones. The antiques mall’s neighbors within the renovated riverside brick mill embody two eating places. Fort Andross, 14 Maine St. 207-725-2855.
Trifles, Wiscasset
Helen Robinson is drawn to live-edge tables, cushioned swivel stools, and the clear traces of mid-century-modern design. Her husband, Matthew, who died final yr, beloved pottery from Roman antiquity, heavy and ornate Sixteenth-century Spanish monastery chairs, 150-year-old tabletop cupboards with secret drawers, and the oak wings of hand-carved angels pulled from renovation waste piles outdoors church buildings in Europe. The couple’s completely different collections reside in two outlets — hers a former livery overlooking the Sheepscot River, his a former financial institution with excessive ceilings and ample gentle. At the moment, Helen gamely manages each, and if she’s busy in a single, she might hand you the important thing to the opposite so you may let your self in. 55 Predominant St. and 55 Water St. 207-443-5856.
Clockwise from high left: Newcastle’s Indian Path Antiques goes in massive for automotive historical past; noticed show and extra at Elmer’s Barn; welcome signal and exterior at Liberty Software Firm; Liberty Software women lounging; Marston Home, on Vinalhaven, has loads of material items. Images by Mark Fleming (Indian Path), Tristan Spinski (Elmer’s), Tara Rice (Liberty), and Greta Rybus (Marston).
Indian Path Antiques, Newcastle
Charles Harris has amassed a big stock of classic Americana — merry-go-round horses, tobacco tins, art-deco jukeboxes, wind-up Buck Rogers spaceships, even a Forties wood phone sales space with coin-operated dial telephone nonetheless intact. Vintage motor automobiles, starting from die-cast miniatures to pedal toys to the occasional actual factor, are nicely represented, and the shop typically hosts car-club cruise-ins. Objects are organized by themes on 4 flooring of a Nineteenth-century pink barn. 23 Indian Path Rd. 207-586-5000.
Flea Market Faves
Severe collectors know that Wednesday is “antiques day” at Woolwich’s Montsweag Flea Market (6 Hunnewell Ln.; 207-443-2809). They arrive with sellers at 6 a.m., and by 9, they’re gone — as are the very best items. On Saturday and Sunday, junk peddlers unfold their tables with the generational detritus of tons of of Maine basements — furnishings, instruments, cameras, kitchen devices, dolls, you identify it. Regulars come to talk up the distributors as a lot as they do to treasure hunt.
Sitting on the north finish of Searsport’s antiques row, Pastime Horse Flea Market (383 E. Predominant St., Searsport; 207-323-6275) includes six individually housed outlets. Pastime Horse Antiques, the anchor retailer, has the biggest and most various stock, with items organized in three small hooked up buildings and on tables within the car parking zone. Many objects have been plucked from Maine properties, barns, and boathouses and embody cast-iron pans, clay jugs, concrete planters, steel plant stands, kerosene lanterns, wood lobster buoys, milk bottles, and shed moose and deer antlers.
Liberty Software Firm, Liberty
Outdated instruments have been awaiting new homeowners at Liberty Software for 52 years. The primary ground of this former basic retailer is a community of rough-hewn cabinets holding trays of drill bits, chisels, planes, and wrenches. Handsaws and hammers grasp on racks, trying like sculptural assemblages. Some instruments are real antiques, others are merely used and nonetheless helpful, together with many electric-powered drills, round saws, and sanders. On flooring two and three, {hardware} offers approach to homewares, magazines, and books, although jars of nuts, bolts, and different ins and outs, snagged from the workbenches of retired and departed DIYers, are scattered all through. 57 Predominant St. 207-589-4771.
Antiques at 10 Mechanic, Camden
Peyton Place, which was filmed in Camden and neighboring cities, premiered on this former film home in 1957. At the moment, it homes 20 antiques distributors’ cubicles, most with no discernible specialty. Dinnerware, glassware, ceramics, and jewellery are plentiful; the remainder is an ever-changing eclectic mixture of clothes, housewares, prints, posters, work, and a few furnishings. 10 Mechanic St. 207-236-6010.
Marston Home, Vinalhaven
Sharon and Paul Mrozinski have returned to Vinalhaven island after one other winter spent scouring markets in southern France. Their cache contains mid-century workwear and males’s linen and cotton shirts, in addition to classic pottery, ebony-handled knives, glassware, and corkscrews. Their signature items are vintage textiles, survivors from a time earlier than fiber-destroying dryers. Their finds, virtually all with a utilitarian previous, are nicely suited to Marston Home’s rustic inside. A former submit workplace, the constructing was moved to the island from neighboring North Haven island in 1907. It sits on a bridge over the tidal falls between Vinalhaven’s working harbor and a saltwater pond. 18 Predominant St. 207-863-9033.
By way of the Wanting Glass
“My favourite spot for a treasure hunt is Elmer’s Barn (107 Rte. 17, Whitefield; 207-549-7671). The journey begins earlier than you step inside, with the pickings filling the porch and spilling onto the grounds. Inside, I really feel a bit like Alice following the white rabbit. Paths lead you from sales space to sales space, room to room till you come across one among many curious staircases that deliver you to a different ground, after which one other, every with extra rooms and passageways by means of stacks of products. From blueberry crates to journey trunks, furnishings to fishing traps, candlesticks to sawmill blades, one can find virtually something (together with your means out, finally)!”
— Michelle Provencal, home-décor designer at Waldoboro’s Thirdlee & Co.
CENTRAL & WESTERN MAINE
By Adrienne Perron
Cornish Buying and selling Firm, Cornish
Derek and Lindsey McIntosh stumbled upon Cornish Buying and selling Co. final winter and fell in love with the place, which was then on the market. 5 days later, they’d it beneath contract. They plan to begin internet hosting readings and reside music however in any other case go away the 34-year-old enterprise largely unchanged. Indoor and outside furnishings, paintings, mirrors, space rugs, and tons of of items of décor, all from some 40 distributors, occupy every of the 1864 Masonic corridor’s three flooring. At first of every winter, the store is emptied to make room for all-new merchandise the subsequent season. 19 Predominant St. 207-625-8387.
Scout Residence Finds, Bridgton
Donna Derstine moved her store from Harrison to Bridgton 5 years in the past to make the most of the latter city’s bustling Predominant Avenue. She’s since blended some new objects in with antiques and classic merch, however the focus right here remains to be on subtle second-hand furnishings. When she’s not manning the store, Derstine scours Fb Market and crisscrosses the state to seek out bureaus, benches, vanities, tables, and chairs, largely in a preppy, cottage-y fashion — her aesthetic is L.L.Bean-esque, she says — which she repaints and refinishes earlier than displaying them in her homey retailer. 150 Predominant St. 207-240-3544.
Clockwise from high left: worldwide aptitude at Rusticators Emporium; at Cornish Buying and selling Firm, wall artwork to wood elephants; curated stall at The Vault; Scandi prints at Scout. Images by Dave Dostie (Rusticators, Vault), Danielle Sykes (Cornish Buying and selling Firm), and Benjamin Williamson (Scout).
Route 26 Antiques, Oxford
Half flea market and half antiques store, Route 26 is nothing if not eclectic: we not too long ago eyeballed a $75 electrical guitar, a good-looking 1946 tube radio for $550, and some $10 buttons from Nixon’s 1960 presidential marketing campaign. And in keeping with proprietor Keith McKinnon, the shop has a lesser-known forte: outside gear. With the Oxford Hills’ historical past of small gear corporations, like Paris Manufacturing Firm, and the simple entry to lakes and mountain trails, the store is a pure place to seek out retro skis, toboggans, snowshoes, ice skates, fishing rods, and extra. It’s why, McKinnon says, the shop’s such successful with of us taking Route 26 on their means as much as camp. 1188 Predominant St. 207-744-0232.
Flea Market Faves
Since homeowners Ray and Lucie Bisson took it over seven years in the past, The Willows Flea Market (345 S. Predominant St., Mechanic Falls; 207-345-7047) has expanded greater than tenfold. Now, it’s the biggest flea market within the state. One three-story and one single-story constructing present greater than 36,000 sq. toes for some 250 distributors, and it’s nothing if not various: Subsequent to a sales space stuffed with glowing classic crystal is one other promoting aged wood rocking horses and washboards. A 40-year-old radial arm noticed is simply down the row from a legion of Hummels. Sink a while into this gargantuan place, and there are nice finds available.
Orphan Annie’s, Auburn
The very first thing you discover is how colourful the place is. The ceiling’s stuffed with vibrant lighting fixtures, the walkways are lined with instances of knickknack and ceramic collectible figurines, and cabinets of pottery and dishware glitter within the gentle. Dan Poulin has owned the store for practically 50 years and offers largely in antiques from the Nineteen Twenties by means of the early Sixties. These days, he says, he’s observed youthful customers drawn in by his vases constituted of vaseline glass, a uranium glass that glows a yellowish inexperienced when flashed with a black gentle. “I feel it talks again to them,” he says. 96 Court docket St. 207-782-0638.
Freckle Salvage Firm, Winthrop
Two dozen distributors’ cubicles characteristic every little thing from retro clothes to vintage house décor and dishware to Maine-made artwork and personal-care merchandise. The store normally swaps in a vendor each couple months, and proprietor Nicole Stanford works one-on-one with every seller to assist curate their stalls and maintain issues recent. As soon as a month, Freckle additionally hosts The Vault classic market down the road (149 Predominant St.), the place greater than two dozen classic and vintage sellers arrange flea-market–fashion, curating their cubicles to align with month-to-month themes (in July, it’s “Infinite Summer time”). 129 Predominant St. 207-395-5429.
Clockwise from high left: Lexi and Sam Joyall, at The Rusticators Emporium; Paul Cote, with classic toboggans, at Route 26 Antiques; one of many eclectic shows at Cornish Buying and selling Firm. Images by Dave Dostie, Cait Bourgault, and Danielle Sykes, respectively.
The Rusticators Emporium, Hallowell
Lexi Joyall moved her pop-up classic market into this brick-and-mortar storefront final winter. The store’s wide-ranging stock fills up each inch of the place — even a closet is organized to show one vendor’s antiques. Highlights on a latest go to included an outdated post-office field with eight compartments for $120, numerous gardening instruments for a number of {dollars} apiece, an unlimited birdcage for $375, and little paper seize luggage that Joyall fills with thriller objects and sells for $5. “We don’t purpose to promote objects from any specific interval,” Sam Joyall, Lexi’s husband and co-owner of the store, says. “We simply need to promote enjoyable issues.” 151 Water St. 207-213-6679.
Trendy Underground, Waterville
Tucked behind Predominant Avenue in Waterville, this furniture-focused antiques retailer lives as much as its identify. Guests to the three,800-square-foot basement store are rewarded with tons of of items of largely mid-century-modern furnishings — rosewood nesting tables, cool bar carts, sheep-shaped ottomans — all hand-picked and refinished by homeowners Lisa and Brian Kallgren. The Kallgrens additionally promote old-school turntables, audio system, and different audio gear and curate a smaller choice of lighting, artwork, dishware, and different classic equipment. 103R Predominant St. 207-200-1290.
Novelty Act
“I choose vintage outlets that require digging, so the three flooring of oddities on the Auburn Novelty Store (122 Turner St.; 207-782-0638) are proper up my alley. I as soon as purchased a bejeweled banana, an Andy Warhol reference, which I plucked from a basket of bejeweled fruit. I requested if I might simply purchase the banana and so they let me, considering it was hilarious. They’re old school right here — to run a bank card, they name Orphan Annie’s, additionally owned by Dan Poulin, on a flip telephone to course of the transaction. There’s a lot character in promoting outdated issues in an outdated means. Plus, every little thing is all the time half off.”
— Jeff Roberts, New Gloucester–based mostly architectural and interiors photographer
DOWN EAST
By Brian Kevin
Large Rooster Barn, Ellsworth
You’ll discover loads of the standard furnishings, housewares, artwork, and collectibles — extra curios and bric-a-brac than fantastic interval stuff — within the stalls lining this 300-foot-long Route 1 landmark. However the second ground’s gargantuan assortment of books (together with rarities and first editions) and classic magazines is what units the place aside. That and the historical past: the 22,000-square-foot constructing as soon as incubated tens of hundreds of chicks sure for the poultry business and has attracted treasure hunters and Acadia pilgrims (year-round!) since Annegret and Michael Cukierski took it over in 1986. 1768 Bucksport Rd. 207-667-7308.
Outdated Creamery Vintage Mall, Ellsworth
Some 40 sellers fill two flooring on this unassuming (you guessed it) former creamery a number of blocks off Ellsworth’s major drag. The collections of kitchenware are notably huge, with cornucopias of classic Pyrex, shelf after shelf of high-quality ceramic and cast-iron cookware, and loads of mid-century glassware. Additionally an ideal place to search for property jewellery, outdated instruments, and maritime knickknacks (numerous outdated buoys and glass fishing floats). Heads-up crate diggers: the vinyl assortment is huge and impressively nicely organized. 13 Hancock St. 207-667-0522.
High proper: among the many stacks at Ellsworth’s Large Rooster Barn. Surrounding: not distant, 1A Relics is an eye catching landmark and a jumble of the valuable and bizarre (full with a creepy Stephen King bookshelf). Images by Benjamin Williamson.
1A Relics, Ellsworth
From the minute you pull as much as the oddball, turreted, many-additioned former barn — the place, on a latest go to, life-size statues of the Blues Brothers seemed down from a balcony on a phalanx of stone Buddhas and Sasquatches — it’s clear this place is embracing camp. Among the many 130 cubicles, you’ll additionally discover extra pedestrian salvage objects and family items, however 1A is a very good place to identify that retro lunchbox you keep in mind from grade faculty, bizarre toys and video games you liked within the ’80s, collectible figurines, sports activities memorabilia, zany folks artwork, and extra. A pop-nostalgist’s paradise. 444 Bangor Rd. 207-412-0822.
Nation Retailer Antiques, Trenton
The silo is the very first thing to catch your eye, a number of miles earlier than the bridge over the narrows onto Mount Desert Island. Pull over and discover wares from greater than two dozen sellers filling up three pleasantly jumbled flooring. Significantly ample are collections of basketry, ceramic kitchenware, and books, which proprietor and former librarian Vicki Landman has shelved by impressively slim pursuits — e.g., engineering, prayer, well being. Additionally, unexpectedly, a stunning wine choice on the decrease degree. 410 Rte. 1. 207-667-5922.
4 Predominant St. Antiques, Cherryfield
Lynn Smith and Richard Tompkins’s charming three-story retailer backs as much as the Narraguagus River in tiny Cherryfield, a seemingly unlikely spot for a store with a repute for stocking excellent-condition Nineteenth- and 18th-century European and English furnishings. A lot of pretty estate-sourced rugs, mirrors, frames, lighting, and different fixtures. Designers and interior decorators from round New England are identified to pilgrimage right here. Name forward, as hours are restricted. 4 Predominant St. 207-546-2664.
Digital Antiquing
Heidi and Zach Beaudry, of Ellsworth, curate the good assortment of mid-century house items of their Etsy store, This Attic Classic, combing yard and property gross sales (and lots of the similar outlets on these pages). Danielle Filosa, of New Harbor, provides Hollywood set decorators, however loads of her items — from classic décor to uncommon books to country-rustic curios — are on the market at Filosaphy Residence. Stacey and Neil Collins settle for visits by appointment to eyeball Danish and mid-century finds they collect of their Falmouth barn, however their full stock of furnishings, dinnerware, and equipment is browsable on their on-line store Classic Trendy Maine.
Ray Foster Antiques and Positive Artwork, Machias
You’ll discover some good examples of Early American and farmhouse-style furnishings and hearthware on this downtown-Machias storefront (and generally spilling onto the garden), which longtime seller and restorer Ray Foster fills with finds from auctions, estates, and vintage exhibits. Foster all the time appears to have a pleasant choice of nautical antiques — not simply wood buoys however ship’s wheels, barometers and different tools, brass {hardware}, and extra. Additionally, properly framed artwork: largely landscapes, classic and up to date, a few of it Foster’s personal. 1 Water St. 207-255-0686.
Clockwise from high left: regular-size chickens as soon as occupied the Large Rooster Barn; 1A Relics has rooms stuffed with steel and enamel indicators; Danielle Filosa’s finds at Filosaphy Residence would possibly embody scuffed steamer trunks, snazzy fixtures, or well-preserved toboggans; the Rooster Barn is the place to dig by means of preserved print supplies; Rooster Barn pickax. Images by Benjamin Williamson and courtesy of Filasophy Residence.
The Litter Store Antiques and Classic Desirables, Lubec
Sherry Evers-Jenkins runs this aptly named, single-dealer outpost and might maintain forth on the provenance of what’s inside, which incorporates a number of cabinets of beautiful china, a number of racks of high-quality mid-century attire, a beautiful assortment of colored-translucent Melancholy glass, numerous off-the-wall Star Trek memorabilia (Evers-Jenkins is a Trekkie — ornamental Lieutenant Uhura plate, anybody?), and lots extra. A shed outdoors has bigger objects, together with some good vintage stoves and plenty of architectural salvage. 371 County Rd. 207-733-4733.
Decorous Detour
“Not lots of people know Mid-coast Positive Antiques of Maine, in Holden (641 Predominant Rd.; 207-843-7449). It’s between Acadia and Bangor. Francine Grant is the proprietor, and it’s simply her — a big store, not a multi-group mall, and he or she retains that place spic-and-span. She’s an appraiser too, and each Thursday, she does free value determinations, if you wish to deliver your treasures in. It’s an ideal place for ‘brown furnishings,’ with loads of very nice interval issues: nation furnishings, Nineteenth-century American furnishings. I’ve seen some lovely cabinets and secretaries, and I’ve bought a few tables from her. Plus, the appraisal factor is simply form of enjoyable.”
— Loi Thai, inside and backyard designer, Tone on Tone, Castine
SOUTHERN MAINE & GREATER PORTLAND
By Sarah Stebbins
R. Jorgensen Antiques, Wells
Pam Jorgensen Higgins’s style leans “painted-country,” whereas her brother, Ric Jorgensen, favors formal items. Collectively, they’ve stuffed 5 rooms, plus a barn, within the 1685 Cape their mother and father was an antiques showroom in 1971. Anticipate stunning juxtapositions, like a primitive Nineteenth-century English cupboard, displaying 1800s Chinoiserie china and a hand-hewn, Nineteenth-century Afghani wood bowl, leaned alongside an 1870 gilded English slipper chair inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Descriptive, handwritten tags (one, dangling from a 1740 carved-oak English cabinet reads, “Observe the early hinges!”) convey the siblings’ ardour for his or her acquisitions. 502 Publish Rd. 207-646-9444.
Antiques on 9, Kennebunk
This store’s red-shingled, lobster-shack-esque exterior belies the soothing mixture of ivory- and blue-painted items arrayed inside, in room after whitewashed room. Recognizing that “brown furnishings” isn’t all the time appropriate with the coastal-cottage look her prospects are after, proprietor Beverly Bangs refurbishes lots of her antiques with Annie Sloan chalk paint. (A spiffed-up outdated bureau is a very clever funding, she says, because it’s normally higher made than a brand new piece and half the value.) Interspersed are new, distressed furnishings and up to date pillows, rugs, and ceramic lamps, in addition to Bangs’s quirky collections, like early-1900s painted-wood pull toys from India. 81 Western Ave. 207-967-0626.
High left: the porch is stuffed with house items at Antiques on 9. Backside left: discover accents like vintage wash basins and ceramic jugs strewn among the many camp-friendly furnishings at My Sister’s Storage. Proper: Decor and extra at Portland Flea-For-All. Images by Heidi Kirn (Antiques on 9, My Sister’s Storage) and Michael D. Wilson (Flea-For-All).
Americana Workshop, Kennebunk
This 1820 post-and-beam Cape is stuffed with the antiques equal of consolation meals: rustic Early American pine cabinets, dry sinks, and farm tables; painted decoys, trunks, and Windsor chairs; light quilts. An hooked up barn homes replica furnishings made by proprietor/third-gen antiques seller Cindy Hamilton in a close-by workshop, the place she additionally restores antiques, builds customized items, and can refinish your buy. Nothing right here prices greater than $2,000, and, on the day we visited, you can rating a dozen charmingly mismatched ladder-back chairs for simply $25 apiece. 111 York St. 207-985-8356.
Flea Market Fave
Although it’s open year-round (climate allowing), the Arundel Flea Market (1713 Portland Rd., Arundel; 207-985-7965) peaks in summer season, when sellers prepare greater than 200 tables beneath flowering timber in a small park. Many objects come from property cleanouts and vary from mid-century artwork to blue-and-white transferware to Center Japanese carpets. Sellers arrange by flashlight as early as 3 a.m. and sometimes pack up at midday, so plan an early begin.
Bonny Learn, South Portland
After seven years of hauling her classic items to varied cubicles, Megan Abercrombie determined to consolidate her operation in a single store in 2020. The ensuing house, named after 18th-century feminine pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Learn, is a treasure chest for mid-century lovers. Graphic textiles and work, bamboo and rattan furnishings, sculptural lamps and swivel chairs, and brass and crystal candelabras crowd the petite store — to the purpose the place you can simply miss, say, the yellow administrators’ chairs stuffed behind a carved dresser. Thankfully, Abercrombie catalogs lots of her finds on Instagram (@bonnyreadvintage), so you may get the lay of the land earlier than you store. 87 Ocean St. 207-233-6110.
Portland Flea-For-All, Portland
Thursday evenings, Erin Kiley and Nathaniel Baldwin tease their practically 22,000 Instagram followers with photograph albums of recent items obtainable for buy when their store opens on Friday. Patrons line up outdoors early, prepared to say mid-century Danish teak furnishings, leather-based butterfly and membership chairs, dhurrie and kilim rugs, steel process lamps, and portraits from as many as 40 distributors within the 10,000-square-foot, brick-walled house, inbuilt 1881 as the primary Shaw’s grocery store. By Saturday — the one different day the shop’s open — issues could also be a bit picked over, however you may browse in peace. 585 Congress St. 207-370-7570.
My Sister’s Storage, Windham
Camp homeowners en path to Sebago and different close by lakes cease in to siblings Sarah and Jenn Tringali’s classic store to peruse shabby-chic painted dressers, iron and wood beds, and slipcovered chairs that hardly ever price greater than $400. Others place holds on objects they spot within the Tringalis’ exhaustive Fb albums, posted each Thursday at 8:30 p.m., earlier than in-person customers descend on Friday and Saturday. However nobody ought to go up the possibility to browse the absolutely adorned rooms contained in the sisters’ Nineteenth-century blue-and-pink Cape (or pattern their mother Janet Pessolano’s complimentary baked items). 610 Roosevelt Tr. 207-892-2268.
Salvage Love
Southern Maine customers seeking to match historic supplies on a restoration venture, or add patina to a brand new house, have entry to a humiliation of architectural riches. Outdated Home Elements Firm (1 Trackside Dr., Kennebunk; 207-985-1999) shares vintage stained-glass home windows, cast-iron kitchen sinks, carved fire surrounds, and all method of {hardware} in an 11,000-square-foot freight warehouse inbuilt 1872. Particularly spectacular: 3,000 doorways, organized by variety of panels. In a 1900 manufacturing facility, Portland Architectural Salvage (131 Preble St., Portland; 207-780-0634) gives 20,000 sq. toes of reclaimed supplies, plus conversation-piece furnishings, like a carved Asian dowry chest and a classic steel “root cellar.”
Pillars, Freeport
For 23 years, designers and owners have adopted store homeowners Larry Newell and Jerry Willmert to varied areas in Yarmouth and Freeport. In December, they opened of their newest spot — a 3,500-square-foot, single-floor house chockablock with English, French, Italian, and Swedish antiques. Types vary from rustic (a pair of distressed circa 1900s glass-front French cupboards) to glam (resident pug Kooza likes to snooze on an emerald-green Artwork Deco velvet couch from Europe — as does Newell). In again, an array of latest lampshades are available to clean up decades-old bases. 125A Rte. 1. 207-869-5164.
Vendor’s Selection
“Whenever you stroll into Gurley Antiques (581 Rte. 1, Scarborough; 207-396-4255), it feels high-end, however there’s a calming vibe and loads of selection. Proprietor Rachel Gurley and her brother, Josh, grew up within the enterprise and run 25 antiques exhibits in New England. In case you’re in search of one thing specifically, Rachel is aware of the place to seek out it and what you must pay for it. Some issues are costly, however I acquired my espresso desk constituted of an vintage ship hatch for $125 and the classic boat ladder in my studio for $36. Outdated portraits are making a comeback. ‘Edna,’ on my mantel, was $60 at Gurley. I don’t assume I might ever promote her.”
— Erin Donovan, antiques seller, Of the Sea Studio, Saco
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