The Premier Antiques Show and Sale in the Metro Toronto Convention Center boasts, ‘Decorative arts, Canadiana, vintage designs and accessories, fine jewelry, and objects of art.‘  Its absolutely packed with treasure!

I wrote about the extravangaza on Premier Antique Show Oct 28 in Toronto on Dumpdiggers, which is my 'antiques blog' about digging and collecting artifacts and antiques as investment in the future. You really are betting on the future when you buy relics and objects that are only valuable if people know and appreciate the history - a distressed population doesnt buy antiques.

This show and the others in the Premier series showcase the best stuff on the pro tour; The Premier brand shows are like the PGA of Antiques here in Canada. I wrote a piece describing my obsession for order, context, and how Antiques Shows are like Museums on Acid on Treasure Net discussion forum  

In near future, it may come to pass that cloud computing yields an advanced inventory management crowd sourced application for mobile phones that will sort through everything present at antiques shows and tell users where to find all the bits and pieces of a particular time period or genre. So users can query the database and the program will direct these curious shoppers to the exact stalls filled with relevant goods for sale. So its possible to complete sets or make collections more complete or even just find the missing buttons from a vintage jacket. The woman in the photo is Julie, a vintage clothing merchant at Toronto antiques show.

She had many fine items on display and was modeling dresses to younger ladies when I came around the corner and spotted her in pretty much the exact center of the busy show. She was busy but took the time to show me a vintage needle point clutch purse that is valuable because of the jade handle and torquiose beads. It has a very high thread count and spotless interior lining - possible a new addition because its in such great shape. This is the vintage stuff that's handmade and you can tell because of the organic ingredients wherein nothing is synthetic , or polyester even the metal is plated and polished - the interior is lined with white silk.