Our Press Release:

Avalon Antiques Market on Rte. 1 in Wiscasset is listed as one of “10 Favorite Antique Stores, Flea Markets, and Salvage Shops” in the just-released issue of Yankee Magazine’s Best of New England edition.

Yankee writer Rachel Slade interviewed photographer Lynn Karlin who listed Avalon Antiques among the favorite 10 Maine antique shops from which she furnished her vacation home.

The Yankee listing has special significance for Avalon owners Bill and Pam Belmore because the shop celebrates it’s 10th Anniversary in June.  Occupied by close to 100 antiques dealers, Avalon was “quickly accepted as a quality shop”, Belmore said, doing $1 million in sales in its first 15 months of operation.  Thirty-five of the dealers who joined Avalon 10 years ago at its opening continue to display and sell there.

To celebrate the 10th Anniversary, Avalon is having a storewide sale from June 9 – 17 with discounts from 10 to 50 percent.  The store’s summer hours of 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. begin June 1.  Avalon is open 7 days a week.  On Memorial Day weekend, dealers will have an outside Antiques Show and Sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 26, followed by a parking lot Yard Sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 27.

Avalon’s 11,000-plus feet of floor space is filled with furnishings bought from private homes and auctions.  In addition to quality furniture from country to formal, the shop also has large selections of pottery, silver, jewelry, books, early tools, nautical items, paintings and prints, glass, early farm and home implements, collectibles and frequently “the unexpected”.

Avalon is located at 536 Bath Rd., (Rte. 1 south)Wiscasset.  Until June 1, the hours are 9 to 5 seven days.

Area Happenings

Bath Antiques Show – TBA – Bath Middle School, Bath, ME, 10am – 2pm, $4 Admission
Bath Antique Shows

Robert L. Foster Auctions, Newcastle, ME, TBA
Robert L. Foster Co. Auctioneers & Appraisers

Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, ME, May 16, 2012, 5:00pm
Farrin’s Country Auctions

LT Auctions, Waldoboro, ME, May 19, 2012, 2:00pm