The arrangement cuts overhead for dealers, but for antique shoppers, the benefit is a tremendous variety of goods and prices. While some dealer booths are a mishmash of items, others are specialty motherlodes. Antiques USA, for example, includes a dealer specializing in antique sports equipment and another focusing on antique milk bottles. Arundel Antiques' charms include an outdoor flea market on the grounds. As many as 100 dealers on the weekends, and 40 on weekdays, can be found until Nov. 1 selling anything from second-hand paperbacks to Victorian furniture.
Prices range from cheap to thousands of dollars.
This town and neighboring communities are loaded with Route 1 antique stores, so many that even a tireless antiquer may start skipping shops from sheer overload. Don't miss it. Staff photo by Jack Milton. Other locations Downtown Hallowell. There are a half-dozen antique shops in this little town center, about 2 miles south of Augusta on Route 201.