Delaware Antiques Show Reflects Market’s Ebb & Flow

November 22, 2022

Antiques & the Arts Weekly: “Grace and Elliott Snyder were as enthusiastic as Eaton, making several sales on opening night and tallying a total of 25 sold tags by the time the show closed. “It was excellent, one of the best Delaware shows we’ve ever had! Sales were across the board, mostly very early material, including some very good American furniture.” Grace reported prices ranged from about $3,000 to $13,000 for a variety of things that included a redware platter, an Eighteenth Century spoon board, a William and Mary gateleg table, an early Eighteenth Century ball-foot blanket chest from Newburyport, Mass., candlesticks, American portraits and a jester-form brass finial. Most of their sales were to other dealers and collectors, including a few new clients. I find it to be the most academic and knowledgeable crowd; that has always distinguished the Delaware show.”

Delaware Antiques Show, Back In Person, Fields Large Freshman Class

November 16, 2021

Antiques & the Arts Weekly: “Across the aisle from Kilvington, Elliott and Grace Snyder were also making sales on opening night. Over the course of the show, the South Egremont, Mass.,-based dealers would close the deal on a painted Connecticut highboy, a Connecticut heart and crown chair, an early child’s chair and several smalls, including early German stoneware and some brass pieces. Negotiations on a few items are still ongoing…”

ADA Historic Deerfield Online Show Reaps Plentiful Harvest

October 19, 2021

Antiques & the Arts Weekly: “...Other dealers also sold textiles, which Grace Snyder observed seemed to be a strong category at the show. In addition to a pair of canvaswork needlework pictures, she and Elliott had four sales in total, including a brass pipe case, a tin sconce and a brass tankard. Two of the sales were made to trade buyers and two to private collectors, both of whom the South Egremont dealers had worked with previously.”

Antiques In Manchester: A Fertile Hunting Ground For American

August 20, 2021

Antiques & the Arts Weekly: Elliott and Grace Snyder, South Egremont, Mass., sold just over 30 items, including furniture, American metalwork, European candlesticks, German stoneware, needlework and folk art. “One thing that surprised me was the amount of furniture we sold, which hasn’t been so strong lately,” Grace said. “But we sold quite a bit and it ranged from very early New England material to paint-decorated works.” An early, significant sale for the Snyders came in the form of a Pilgrim century chest. Another was an Eighteenth Century paint-decorated miniature two-drawer Chippendale chest from Pennsylvania that the dealers have owned three times now.

As goes Brimfield, so goes the regional antiques business

April 12, 2021

The Berkshire Edge: Grace Snyder and her husband Elliott are antiques dealers based in South Egremont who specialize in 17th and 18th century American furniture and folk art, early metalwork including 15th and 16th century candlesticks, and textiles such as needlework and hooked rugs. They attend shows and auctions for buying opportunities, sometimes looking through hundreds of items at a time, and buy at shows where they are also selling. Shows used to be the biggest part of their business, although now they only participate in a handful each year including The Collectors Fair in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show in Hartford. Last year, the five shows they booked either canceled or moved online. While online shows are a fraction of the cost, they present other obstacles for businesses dealing in specialty objects. “We have the customers wanting to buy, but our problem has been finding material we trust,” said Snyder. “It’s astonishing to me that people are buying without seeing the items in person.”

Delaware Show Soldiers On

November 24, 2020

Antiques & the Arts Weekly: "The most recent antiques show to migrate to an online version was the Delaware Antiques Show, now in its 57th year and one of the most eagerly anticipated annual events for collectors and dealers of American furniture, folk art, ceramics, metalworks, textiles, lighting and fine art. Annually benefitting the educational programming at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, the show convenes at the same time the Winterthur Collectors Circle meets and Winterthur fellows reunite for lectures, meetings and other satellite events. It is, in short, ground zero for collectors and connoisseurs, scholars, curators, educators and dealers in all things that have defined the last 400-500 years of material culture, American and otherwise… An existing client of Elliott & Grace Snyder bought a pipebox they had seen earlier at the Historic Deerfield/ADA Show.”

After 2019 Hiatus, ADA/Deerfield Show Reprises Online & Sates Collectors

October 20, 2020

Antiques & the Arts Weekly: “Two pieces of German stoneware were counted among the sales for Elliott & Grace Snyder, South Egremont, Mass. Included was a Rhenish stoneware heart-shaped scent bottle with two large birds and a cherub’s head on both sides. The other was an Eighteenth Century Westerwald tankard initialed and dated 1774 with the cobalt-decorated image of a folky figure in elaborate dress. The dealer also sold an early Nineteenth Century tiger maple Hepplewhite child’s washstand with hinged drawer, a flame stitch silk purse and an Eighteenth Century pine gout stool.”

Preview Highlights of This Weekend's ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show Online

October 5, 2020

Art Fix Daily: “Corner chairs marry form and function used at a desk, for reading, or tucked in the corner. Elliott & Grace Snyder Antiques will exhibit this circa 1770 example from Northeastern Massachusetts with beautifully designed hearts in each of the splats unique carved appliqués on the arms.”

Antiques In Manchester Connects

August 18, 2020

Antiques and the Arts Weekly: “Elliott and Grace Snyder, South Egremont, Mass., sold a fine early Nineteenth Century English steel trivet with cut out pinwheels and concentric circles throughout on paw feet. They thought it may have been Welsh. Other metalware that found a new home included a Gothic Dutch three-knop brass candlestick and an Eighteenth Century wrought iron fork with a heart-shaped central tine, likely from New York. “I’m noticing people are responding to very good things,” Grace Snyder said. “There’s quite a lot of pent up demand out there. It’s not easy to find that material.” Snyder said her sales were largely to existing clients. When the storm blew in and knocked out the dealers’ power for two days, she set up in the shop of Sam Herrup, who was also selling at the show.”

Americana…Front, Center, & Forward Looking

November 26, 2019

Antiques and the Arts Weekly: “Grace and Elliott Snyder also thought this was their best Delaware show yet, making sales of both some of the best American and European material they had brought. Sales included an early slat-back armchair, an early yarn sewn rug on the American side, and a carved footwarmer and a Fifteenth Century candlestick on the European side, in addition to other things. “What was interesting was that we had more interest in New England country furniture and folk art than we’ve generally had at this show. It’s become a great show, a show that’s clearly on the upswing, that people are coming for from all over the country, not merely because of Delaware’s tax-free status, but really because it’s become the purest antiques show in the whole country. Winterthur does an incredible job,” Grace said after the show.”

Antiques In Manchester: The Collector’s Fair Makes Record Gate In Eighth Edition

August 20, 2019

Antiques and the Arts Weekly: “Elliott and Grace Snyder, South Egremont, Mass., had a productive two days, selling about two dozen works. “It was encouraging that we sold all the way from our very early European material, some of our best, to folk art and terrific American things,” said Grace Snyder. “We’ve been doing very well with the early European metalwork material. It was nice to sell it there too, because you think of that show as more Americana.” The dealers exhibited a wide array of early brass candlesticks, including a circa 1520 Dutch heemskerk and a circa 1600 boldly turned Danish example. The Snyders sold a Seventeenth Century English needlework looking glass frame with provenance to Irwin Untermyer. It had been pictured in the book on that collection, English and Other Needlework: Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection by Yvonne Hackenbroch and was also exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1945.”

Exceptional Colonial Slip-Decorated Cup at Antiques Week

August 9, 2019

Justin Thomas: “I attended most of the antique shows this week in New Hampshire, trying to see as much American pottery as possible, and this slip-decorated red earthenware cup was by far the rarest piece of pottery that I saw. A friend purchased it for his private collection in New England, but it was found in the booth of South Egremont, Massachusetts antiques dealers, Elliott and Grace Snyder who exhibited at The Collector's Fair at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.”

The Keeping-Room Cabal: How A Gathering Around An Old Harvest Table Gave Rise To The ADA

April 16, 2019

Antiques and the Arts Weekly: “The ‘plunge into potentially dangerous waters,’ as the New York-Pennsylvania Collector described it at the time, was led by Elliott Snyder, a Massachusetts dealer known for his expertise in early New England furniture and artifacts…Around the time their first son was born in 1984, the Snyders traveled to England once or twice a year to buy. Elliott recalls, “Virtually all the major shows there were vetted. Antiques sold quickly, which dealers liked, because customers bought with confidence. I mentioned the possibility of vetting to Bob Sutter, who lived nearby, and the practice was adopted by the ADA. It made business sense to do it, but it was the moral thing to do, too. One person can make a mistake but when objects are viewed by committees of people, errors are much less likely. Vetting also just seemed like a great educational opportunity for dealers.'”

ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show Tries on a Hartford Venue

November 6, 2018

Antiques and the Arts Weekly: “Like the Israelites wandering in the desert for 40 years, the ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show has of late been trying to find its “forever home,” so it was fitting perhaps that this year’s sponsor was the Connecticut Humane Society…”

Tradition and Innovation at the Philadelphia Antiques Show

May 1, 2018

Antiques and the Arts Weekly: “Irwin Untermyer (1886-1973), a collector of roughly the same stature and vintage, was associated with the spectacular English looking glass in an embroidered frame, third quarter of the Seventeenth Century, that was a highlight at Grace and Elliott Snyder, South Egremont, Mass.”

Connecticut Spring Antiques Show Brightens Hartford Armory

April 10, 2018

Antiques & the Arts Weekly: “Grace & Elliott Snyder of South Egremont, Mass., displayed a good selection of early American and English furniture…while an unusual octagonal tabletop with embroidered cover stood out in the booth of Elliott & Grace Snyder, South Egremont, Mass. The Snyders reported many sales, most during the show, but also after.

Treasures Big And Small at the Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show

May 9, 2017

Antiques & the Arts Weekly:  "There are a handful of shows nationally for which dealers save. The Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show, at the Navy Yard April 20-23, is one of them. Much of what surfaces here exceeds expectation. Special pieces, worthy of the superlatives lavished on them, contribute to the dazzlingly prismatic whole..."

In The Company Of Old Things: The Connecticut Spring Antiques Show

April 11, 2017

Antiques & the Arts Weekly:  Elliott and Grace Snyder had their best Hartford in roughly 45 years. Grace explained, “We’d just come back from a trip to Europe and were lucky enough to find an unusually high number of fine, early pieces, mostly candlesticks, rushlights and excellent early Rhenish stoneware. We also brought a few pieces of American paint-decorated furniture that have been in a private collection we formed about 20 years ago and were fresh to the market. We sold a fine American bible box, Eighteenth Century English needlework, quite a few pieces of the German stoneware, some great pairs of candlesticks and a variety of other accessories. As has been usual for us in our last few shows, early accessories – brass, needlework, iron and ceramics – were in demand.”

The Winter Antiques Show: Embracing Change, A Little Bit At A Time

February 7, 2017

Antiques & the Arts Weekly: "Better known for Americana, Elliott and Grace Snyder have expanded their inventory of choice, early English pottery, textiles and metal, a fruitful direction. The Massachusetts dealers sold an important brass sundial with a history of having been at Hampton Court Palace..."

Architectural Digest: The 17 Best Pieces at the Winter Antiques Show

January 23, 2017

Architectural Digest's decorative arts editor selected two of our pieces among the 17 best at the 2017 Winter Antiques Show:

A Folk Art Masterpiece: "...I’m not a huge fan of American folk art, but if I’d had $65,000, Elliott & Grace Snyder could have persuaded me to purchase a large hooked carpet (detail shown) measuring 95 inches long by 96 inches wide. In the late 19th century its anonymous creator stitched the burlap base with a colorful multitude of flora and fauna, including cats, birds, flowers, and a horse..."

Quillwork Diorama: "Elliott & Grace Snyder also offered a quillwork diorama for $18,000, a framed Continental curiosity dating from around 1670. Most of the imagery—a castle, flowers, and miniature portraits reputedly depicting England’s James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena—is largely fashioned of rolled paper."

Maine Antique Digest: The Winter Antiques Show 2017

January 19, 2017

Maine Antique Digest: "Elliott and Grace Snyder of South Egremont, Massachusetts, offered this folk art masterpiece hooked rug, unusually large at 95" x 96." There are pairs of roosters, peacocks, small birds, and blue cats, and there is a white horse under a red vase decorated with a heart from which grows a flowering tree. The sundial on the table, signed “T. Heath, London,” has a coat of arms and was made for Hampton Court. It sold. Thomas Heath (1698-1773) was a leading London instrument maker at the sign of the Hercules and Globe in the Strand during the reigns of George I and George II, the last of the kings to reside at Hampton Court. The dial is marked with the leading trading posts in England, 1720-53..."

Gary McBournie: Saturday Afternoon at the Winter Antiques Show

January 31, 2016

Bill Richards, Chief Marketing Officer of residential interior design firm Gary McBournie, Inc., writes:  "Yesterday Gary and I visited the Winter Antiques Show, now in its 62nd year, at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The Winter Antiques Show features the 'best of the best' from antiquity through the present and provides collectors, curators, dealers, and design professionals with opportunities to view and purchase exceptional pieces showcased by over 70 exhibitors.  The Show’s exhibitors are specialists in Americana, English, European, and Asian fine and decorative arts..."

Interview at the 2015 Connecticut Spring Antiques Show

March 21, 2015

Grace was interviewed by Antiques and the Arts Weekly at the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show.

"Tempus Fugit": A Connecticut Fireboard Attributed To Winthrop Chandler

Feb 4, 2015

Leslie and Peter Warwick for Incollect: “In June 2014, a fireboard was auctioned at the Danielson family homestead in Killingly, Connecticut, where it had been since its creation (Fig.1). The oil-on-panel fireboard depicts a variety of flowers and cherries on long stems in a vase with handles, placed in a landscape. A bird perches on a flower stem with its bill open, about to catch a flying insect. Flanking the vase, a pair of smiling winged cherubs looks straight at the viewer. Below the cherub on the right, a hunched-over old man with a cane stands between two trees. Below the cherub on the left, a young man is fishing in a stream. There is a rabbit below the vase and another in the background, to the right.”

Maine Antiques Digest Coverage of the 2015 Winter Antiques Show

January 23, 2015

Maine Antiques Digest: "The very rare New York gate-leg table in untouched condition with original butterfly hinges, old finish, and no restoration, red gum, 27¾" high, 52" wide open, 43½" deep, was from Queens County, Long Island. An identical table from the same workshop is pictured in Dean Failey’s Long Island Is My Nation. It is in the Nassau County Museum. Another table is pictured in Wallace Nutting’s Furniture Treasury (fig. 943). It was $85,000, and it was sold by Elliott and Grace Snyder of South Egremont, Massachusetts. The very large folk hooked rug, first quarter 19th century, about 8' square, was marked $95,000. It was found folded up in a closet in a house in Rensselaer, New York, near Albany. The Chinese boy figural hitching post is signed “J.L. Mott Iron Works NY” and is in the 1890 Mott catalog. It was tagged $17,500. The continuous-arm Windsor sold. The rush-seat chairs with pad feet, Hudson Valley, are two from a set of four."

Talking Antiques: Winter Antiques Show

January 20, 2015

Antiques Magazine: "We asked exhibitors at the Winter Antiques Show to highlight one exceptional object in their booths and describe it as they might to an interested collector. Here are the things they chose, along with some of their comments...Elliott & Grace Snyder: An example of early eighteenth-century English needlework at its best, this brilliantly colored piece retains the vibrancy it had when made three hundred years ago. The charming and unusually detailed pastoral scene of a shepherd and shepherdess with their dog and sheep and a fisherman off to the right is enclosed within a primary border of leaves and flowers, and further enhanced by the one-of-a-kind bright yellow honeycomb surround. A rar­ity in terms of its composition, color, and condition, it was pictured in Thomasina Beck’s Embroidered Gardens."

Maine Antiques Digest Coverage of the 2014 ADA Show

October 11, 2014

Maine Antiques Digest's roundup of the 2014 ADA/ Historic Deerfield Antiques Show, Deerfield, Massachusetts

Antiques & Fine Art Magazine: Restraint and Abundance in a Manhattan Loft

November 4. 2013

Elliott & Grace are featured extensively in an Antiques & Fine Art Magazine feature on a Manhattan-based collection of New England painted furniture, folk art , and textiles. 

Museum and Collectors Help Spark ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques

October 12, 2013

Maine Antiques Digest: "On Columbus Day weekend Interstate 91 teems with traffic. From the Connecticut and Massachusetts borders, up and into Vermont, vehicles roll northward on Friday. On Monday afternoon they head south and homeward. In between those days, there were some who spurned the apple pie festivals in Vermont and the farm stands that offered pumpkins and shocks of brittle cornstalks and leaves in Massachusetts. Some came northward for a different type of trophy from the weekend. Those were the ones who pulled off at the Deerfield exit on I-91, the ones who came to the ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show, held on the grounds of Deerfield Academy on October 12 and 13, 2013."

Woodard & Greenstein: Antiques Week 2013 - Annual New Hampshire Extravaganza

August 15, 2013

Woodard & Greenstein Antiques: "Elliott & Grace Snyder of South Egremont, MA, well known for their knowledge, expertise and wonderful taste, exhibited their usual array of early furniture, fine textiles, folk art, English and American metalwork and related accessories."

Winter Wonderland: ArtNet on the 2011 Winter Antiques Show

January 21, 2011

ArtNet: The traditional fair world’s answer to Art Basel? Hands down, it’s the 57th annual Winter Antiques Show now on view at the Park Avenue Armory, Jan. 21-30, 2011. Last night’s vernissage drew the kind of record crowds and feverish buying that rivets contemporary art collectors to the Swiss fair. The show boasts mega-star offerings... 

Architectural Digest: The Lure of Folk

May 31, 2007

Architectural Digest: "Elliott Grace Snyder, of South Egremont, Massachusetts, created a room with an elaborate turned ocher-painted 1830s bed, a small New England yellow dressing table from 1820, several hooked rugs and a set of fancy red-and-polychrome Sheraton chairs with stars on the central back splat. 'The red chairs are in mint condition—and so happy,' Cullman comments. 'Our fanciful wood bed has to be from Pennsylvania,' Elliott Snyder says. 'The turnings have a Germanic, robust quality you don't often see in New England.'"

Country Living: Flame-Stitched Table Mat - What Is It? What Is It Worth?

October 30, 2006

Grace lends her textile expertise to the Country Living Magazine feature "What Is It? What Is It Worth?" about a Flame-Stitched Table Mat.