VA Highlands Festival Juried Antiques Market & Vintage Show
July 26th - August 4th

10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

*Show closes at 4:00 PM on Sunday, August 4th

DAILY ADMISSION $7.00

EARLY BIRD SHOPPING $30 (includes ten day show pass)

SHOW PASS $25 (includes ten day show pass)

THREE DAY PASS $20

NEW for 2024!

FREE LECTURES — Monday, July 29 through Friday, August 2, 2pm (scroll for more info)

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Located in the air-conditioned Grand Hall at the SWVA Higher Ed Center.


Discover those special, hard-to-find items at the Juried Antiques Market & Vintage Show!

For many attendees, this is the focal point of the Festival.

Antiques lovers spend hours browsing through booths filled with formal and primitive furniture, high–end collectibles, jewelry, porcelain, china, rugs, vintage clothing, linens, paintings, pottery and more! Dealers are constantly restocking, so be sure to visit more than once.

Early Access Shopping

Friday, July 26: 9-10am

Come Early, Come Often!

Early Access Shopping is your chance to be first in line to shop the very best of the best. Limited to the first 100 people.

The highly-acclaimed Juried Antiques and Vintage Show is produced annually during the Virginia Highlands Festival in Historic Abingdon, Virginia.

The Grand Hall at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center is filled to the brim with antique and vintage booths displaying formal and primitive furniture, high–end collectibles, jewelry, porcelain, china, rugs, vintage clothing, linens, paintings, pottery, and more!

Make a weekend of it and also shop the Abingdon Antiques Trail with the Abingdon Antique Barn, Black's Fort Antiques, Foxglove Antiques, Wolf Hills Antiques, and Zephyr Antiques.

Refreshments will be available.

Details:
Date: July 26, 2024
Time: 9-10am
Location: Grand Hall of the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center
Cost: $30 (includes season pass to Antiques & Vintage Show)

Free Lecture Series, July 27 - August 2, 2pm

Monday, July 29, 2pm

How to integrate Antiques into a modern décor. Take a curator tour of the show with decorator Carolyn Thomas, SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission. Limited to 20

Tuesday, July 30, 2pm

The origin and masters of hand-crafted Kentucky antique cherry furniture with Joyce Williams and Hoot & Nana Antiques, SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission.

Wednesday, July 31, 2pm

What does a Rose, a European, and a Mine all have in common? They are all names of antique cuts of diamonds. See examples of each cutting style and learn the history and folklore of this dazzling gemstone with Standee Schnall and P&S Antiques, SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission.

Thursday, August 1, 2pm

Everything you wanted to know about Sterling but was afraid to ask! A brief history of Sterling from the United Kingdom to the United States. Focusing on American silver flatware. One free, verbal appraisal per patron at the end of the lecture with J.R. Angivine, Angivine’s Fine Silver, Inc., SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission.

Friday, August 2, 2pm

What Do I Do with This Old Thing? Refinish, repurpose, or preserve with Joel Harte, Joel Harte Furnituremaker Inc., SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission.

Antiques Discovery Day

Sunday, August 4, 1-5pm

Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center

$10 for one item, $25 for three items

Have you ever wondered what your grandmother’s favorite porcelain vase is worth?  Your Uncle Fred’s Civil War memorabilia?  That oil painting that you bought at a thrift shop that seems an original and is signed?  A basket that was supposed to have been traded to your third-great-grandfather by a Cherokee Indian? On and on.  Many people have inherited or purchased items that they would love to have identified and informally appraised.

The Virginia Highlands Festival, in conjunction with the William King Museum of Art, will conduct an Antiques Discovery Day at which a panel of regional antiques experts will try to identify your family “treasures” and give you an informal appraisal of their worth.

The event will be held on Sunday, July 30, from 1-5pm at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon.

The cost for the identification and appraisal of one item is $10, or three items for $25.  Tickets will be available at the door. However, if you wish to reserve a time slot, you can buy tickets online at vahighlandsfestival.org for 1:00pm , 2:00pm, 3:00pm and 4:00pm times.

Please do not bring firearms. If you want a piece of furniture identified or appraised, take several cell phone photographs of the piece from all angles, and bring your phone to the event.

The appraisers will be John Case and his associates from Case Auctions of Knoxville,Tennessee, as well as his brother David and mother Mary Jo Case of Anchor Antiques from Kingsport, Tennessee. 

Betsy White, the Executive Director of the William King Museum of Art will be at the event to document Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee furniture, textiles, and decorative arts for the museum’s Cultural Heritage Project archive.

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2024 Antiques & Vintage Show Dealers

  • Angevine's Fine Silver

  • Antiques & Old Lace

  • Bedford on the Square Antiques

  • Brown & Thigpen Auctions

  • Charles Upchurch Antiques

  • Cones Cupboard

  • Crawford Antiques

  • Fran Riddell Renaissance Collection

  • Hoot & Nana Antiques

  • John Elkins, Jr. Antiques

  • Lady & The Cowboy

  • Lady Di’s Antiques

  • Legacy Rugs

  • Len Harmon Antiques

  • Liz's Attic

  • Marilyn Angel Estate Jewelry

  • Melissa Henley Antiques

  • N.A. LeRoque

  • One Rooster Farm

  • P&P Treasures

  • P&S Antique Jewelry

  • Reruns Antiques

  • Shirley Jean's, LLC

  • Sterling Treasures

  • TH Antiques

  • The Attic

  • The Gliding Goat

  • Tom the Picker Antiques

  • TSO Antiques

  • Vintage Cap Pistols and Cowboy Memorabilia

  • Wood's Bottles

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