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| Event: | Windsor Historical Society Antiques Appraisal | ||||||
| Date: | September 20th, 2015. | ||||||
On Sunday, September 20th from 1-4 p.m., a bevy of Connecticut’s antiques experts will be on hand at Windsor Historical Society to look at your family treasures and tell you more about them: their age, condition and value, and how best to care for them. Perhaps your family has carefully preserved a great-grandmother’s wedding dress. Or maybe there’s an upholstered gilt chair that, according to family tradition, was smuggled out of France during the French Revolution. Or perhaps you purchased an oil-painted landscape from an antiques dealer years ago for a song and can’t quite make out the artist’s signature. You want to find out what’s involved in cleaning and conservation of the painting and whether its value warrants the cost of conservation. Ed Nadeau Jr., Ed Nadeau III, and Heather Nadeau of Windsor’s Nadeau’s Auction Gallery Inc. will be on hand to provide expertise on fine and decorative arts, furniture, jewelry, costume, and Orientalia. Regional expert Richard Murphy will provide insights on old books and manuscripts. So if you’ve ever been curious about family heirlooms such as furniture, glass, ceramics, metal goods, toys, clothing and textiles, and jewelry, here is your chance to find out more. Your cost is $5 per item and you are limited to 5 items to be appraised. Depending on foot traffic, you may have to wait a little, but the Society’s 400 Years of Windsor Stories exhibition will be open for viewing and it is often enjoyable as well as educational to listen to what experts say about artifacts others bring in. Parking is available around Palisado Green and in the Windsor Discovery Center and First Church parking lots. The Windsor Historical Society, founded in 1921, invites visitors to explore the people, places, and events that have shaped Windsor for nearly four centuries. The Society’s museum includes changing and permanent exhibition galleries; a hands-on history learning center for families; a research library and manuscript collection housing Windsor photographs, documents, ephemera, and genealogical materials, a museum shop and two historic houses open to the public -- the 1758 Strong-Howard House and the 1767 Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House.The Society is located at 96 Palisado Avenue (Route 159) and is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Tours of its two historic homes are offered at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. General admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and students and free to children under 12 and WHS members. Call (860) 688-3813 or visit us on the web at www.windsorhistoricalsociety.org for directions to the Society and more information about programs or volunteer opportunities. Make sure to ‘like’ the Society’s Facebook page and follow us on Twitter (@windsorct1633) for regular updates and insights. To receive e-reminders for public programs, please send your e-mail address to jalberti@windsorhistoricalsociety.org.    | |||||||
