CANAJOHARIE — Seeing old hand tools makes Glenn MacNeill nostalgic.
“I like looking at the old tools,” said the town of Glen resident. “My father had some made of wood.”
“I still use some of them myself.”
Such tools as drills and saws were once muscle powered before electricity took over.
MacNeill was one of the people who got glimpses of the past at the 13th Annual Antiqu
Many participants in the antique were looking for snatches of area history. “We came out to look for some unique items from this region,” said Kelly Harmon of Schenectady, who has an antiques booth at I Love Lucy’s in the town of Amsterdam and was visiting with her friend Katherine Tirrito of Glenville.
“I like the historical postcards,” said Janet Stanley of Lee’s Shops at Wagner Square as she and her husband, Matt, looked over wares offered by Windy Hill Antiques of Palatine Bridge.
Ethan Frohock of Brotherhood Antiques and Country Store said original photography and military, advertising and Civil War items were selling well.
Jim Brooks of Catnap Books of Cobleskill was offering books as well as ephemera, items not meant to last, such as letters and advertising sheets.
Sandy Nellis Lane of Johnstown was showing Polly Hoye of Gloversville examples of the stenciling that once adorned the walls of Nellis Tavern. She said such designs were popular in the 1820s, often produced by itinerant artists, but had gone out of favor by the time of the Civil War.
The Palatine Settlement Society’s major project is the Nellis Tavern but it aims to preserve the history of the Nellis family and the culture of the Palatine Germans who settled in the Mohawk Valley.
Joan Craus, a society trustee, coordinated the event.
