Antiques-Reverse Paintings

Second to Antiques-reverse paintings, are very high on my personal list of interests. Antique reverse paintings on glass were the inspiration for the work I do now with my painting, and have done for about 8 years, so far. I spend five nights a week putting paint on glass after work. But my annual pilgrimage to the Bouckville Antique Show, featuring over 1000 Antique Dealers and their ware, is welcome every year! My second oldest daughter has this same 'disease', too. She went on 3 days of the show this year! Is it hereditary, or environmental?

Now that it's August, 2008, we went again! We saw; we walked; we spent money! I am sure that it's a disease! Or at the very least, a bad condition. It can't be right to get so worked up over antiques-reverse paintings, flo blue, and art prints!


My husband and I definitely spent enough money there this year. We bought some flow blue to add to his collection of many years. We picked up some enamelware for my own collection of 33 years, too.

My daughter bought, among other things, a Tiffany platter. I never really got into glass ware much, but she was really exited about it. When I stopped up to see it one day, I found out that it wasn't glass ware at all, but sterling silver. Live and learn!


We walked the field for hours, and saw every booth there. Of coarse every booth does not offer something of interest. But some of the fun is in the hunt for Antiques-Reverse Paintings. The elusive 'whatever it is that intrigues you' Some times, I don't even know what I would like to be able to find! That's when the fun part is in looking through even the junk! Antiques-reverse paintings could be any where!


There was a time when antiques were an extremely important part of my life. Growing up in an antiques shop, and then opening my own shop as an adult, antiques-reverse paintings put the bread on the table! I no longer display at the antique shows, going all out to buy and sell. I don’t scan the classifieds any more just to get the jump on the good stuff. I don’t even visit the shops any longer, when I pass by on a road trip. But I really couldn’t stay away when there was going to be an auction across the road in this little hamlet in central New York. It was scheduled for my Sunday off, which in itself was unusual. I even turned down overtime so I could go. That is unusual too. I had been in the house a few years ago, when the owner, a lady closing in on 90 years had wanted me to pick up a chair of her’s to have the seat in caned. The place was LOADED1 At first, my fiancee was going to go without me. My two younger daughters stopped in to check it out. They are infected with antiques-reverse paintings, too.

There was all manner of yard work to be done, and I walked home. After about five minutes,(or maybe less) I walked back again. There was no leaving it alone. What a Learning experience I had! A three gallon crock with a small blue flower finally started it’s bid at $10. A bid for $45 dollars bought it. I could have sold it a dozen times and again in the “80s for that price! It should be worth so much more now. An Empire Chest, two drawers on top, four below Beautiful, had more than it could do to sell for $100. It was about 1pm, and we were hungry, so I paid for Hoffman hot dogs, and we ate Ball Park Franks. A Victorian settee, in excellent condition, went for only $300, and I bid that one up to $275, myself, but I only had 250 in my account until next week. If I’d gotten it, There would have to have been some credit input somewhere.

Where did the market for antiques go? When it started dropping off in the early “90's, I was pretty busy milking cows, and taking care of a sick husband. Maybe I was sleeping when the bottom dropped out. I haven’t done anything much with antiques in the last 10 years, because I’ve been working a full time job and painting. But the artwork at the auction also brought next to nothing! The family next to us was tickled pink to get a very pretty original oil on canvass by a local artist for $20. They should have been! It was very nice! When a larger one came up later, I turned to the lady, and said she should have it, it was by the same artist as the one she had boughten. She didn’t have a place big enough for it. It sold for $80. I was appalled! That one also was a very nice painting! Is nothing worth any thing?

I must say, I did get a little nervous, when my fiancee bid 725 on a curved front and curved side quarter grained oak china closet. I told him so, and the lady who bought the smaller painting laughed out loud with a few others. The china closet is already full of his flow-blue, in the living room. But I’m still glad he did it. Even my youngest daughter offered to store it indefinately for him. (In her house of coarse, full of something) There was a set of Havaland China. Nice. Amanda, my youngest daughter wanted it; she would put it away until they had a nice enough place to display it. My fiancee bid on it for her wedding gift next month. He took it up to 125, and lost it. It sold for 130. Even that was some what disapointing , Because at one time it was worth more. But it may still be. How much further would the other bidder have gone? There were two pieces of majolica, to me, one was an obvious reproduction. The other, I thought was questionable. The two went together at $30 each. So that was $60 for a possible original. No comment on that one.

Are antiques still popular enough to worry about? Yes, they’re still part of our heritage, but did the influx of particle board/ pressed board/ card board furniture from the early “70's to the late “90's influence furniture makers enough, to begin making solid wood furniture again? Maybe for a lot of people, quality is enough. There is definatly a beauty to that!

In retrospect, my personal theory was that antiques-reverse paintings don’t loose their age. Ever. They’re always going to be antiques. I think it still is, but there has been a stagnation period., no doubt. I almost feel sorry for the woman who had owned the house, even though she’s now passed on. One could tell, it was her life, too. So does this mean that we should forget about our past and look to the future only?, or does it mean that we should remember our past, so that we are able to enter or future clearly?

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Our house is over 150 years old, and furnished accordingly, in antiques-reverse paintings. From the kitchen table to the bedroom furniture, most of it is antiques-reverse paintings Some of the floors in the house are the original wide pine planks. I refinished that part. They are beautiful and unique. We just add a little to it every year!


It's important to me to work on the reverse paintings on glass. There should be only an occasional lapse of trips to local antique shops. But the fact remains that I even include antiques as subject matter in some of my reverse paintings. So even when I paint, I am still in the antiques!

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