Being an antiquer most of my life I have the best time when I attend the Brimfield Antique Market in Brimfield MA. It is one of the largest antique markets in the US and is held only a few times a year.
There was a time when I would go and stay there for an entire week. But now I go only one day.
It was at this Antique market that I found my very first Jack Coats figure which you can see here http://www.ventriloquistcentral.com/coats/coats-figure.htm
So if you have the time and can make it I guarantee you will have a great time and see objects that you would never see anywhere else and maybe you will find the elusive Frank Marshall or McElroy figure.
Here is a link for the Market to give you the dates.
http://www.brimfieldshow.com/
Dan
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Have you found them at places like this? Tell us about some of the antique places that you went in and found an old figure.
Please disregard comment. I misread blog and missed reference to first Coats figure found there. Thanks for sharing.
Didn’t know you were going, Dan! I’ll see you there!
When we lived in Framingham, my wife, MJ Pearle, and I went to Brimfield every year, she looking for antique jewelry and finding it. I found lots of Bergen and McCarthy memorabilia. It was while driving to Brimfield one day, that we heard that Frank Sinatra, Old Blue Eyes, had died.