One of my favorite parts of developing the Brimfield Flea Finder app, has been meeting so many talented passionate people who love what they do. This series of Brimfield Dealer Profiles will highlight a small sample of dealers that can be found using the app. For the July show I will focus on a handful of dealers who have participated and supported the app from the beginning. I'm thrilled to help shine a little more light on these businesses that they work so hard building and running every day.
Walker Homestead
Walker Homestead
Country antiques and primitives. Use the Brimfield Flea Finder app to find their booth at the show or their contact info between shows.
If you are coming to Brimfield, it helps to know that Walker Homestead is part of a group of dealers that refer to themselves as Brimfield Country Roads. They have signs to help guide you to their section on the Central Park field. Multi-dealer partnerships are sprinkled throughout the fields and I think it's a great way to do the show if you can find the right mix of dealers. Brimfield Country Roads is a great example of this strategy being executed well. The exact number of dealers varies from show to show, but there are roughly 18 at the July 2015 show. They all focus on true country antiques from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Walker Homestead shares a large tent with a handful of the Brimfield Country Road dealers and their booth is truly beautiful. These days so much of the show is made up of industrial, midcentury modern, repainted furniture and vintage items that are barely as old as I am. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE all that stuff. But there is just something special about the primitive antiques that Walker Homestead and the other Brimfield Country Road dealers' wares. I imagine that these are the kinds of antiques that were being sold at this show back in the 60s when it all started.
