Delaware Show will open in only 2 days! Preview is Thursday, November 5th, 6-9 pm and the show continues Friday through Sunday, November 6-8.

We have been busy posting new inventory to our website and we will be taking these many new objects to the upcoming Delaware Antiques Show. This is the oldest and perhaps the finest of the Americana shows in the country.

We have been lucky the past few weeks to have acquired a major collection of jewelry. There are 17 works in this jewelry collection.

In addition, there are fresh-to-the-market baskets, including an Aleutian lidded basket, Pomo basket and Karok (Karuk) basket. Be sure to look for these on my website and contact me if you are interested.

Fresh inventory and show announcement

We are very excited to let you know that we have posted some very fresh-to-the-market inventory, including a Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka’wakw) bumblebee mask, a bracelet from Taxco, Mexico, and several Zuni bracelets that were formerly in my personal collection.

To see these items in more detail, please click the following links:

Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka’wakw) bumblebee mask:

https://www.marcyburns.com/beadwork-and-wood-collection/ba9g9ahfu22vu0mryawij6euvgs7cc

THE DELAWARE SHOW 2026 will be held at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware. This show is one of oldest and most important Americana shows. Please click the Show Section to look up details of the show. Dates are November 5, 2026 (Preview Opening), continuing November 6-8.

https://www.marcyburns.com/shows

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON!

PENNSYLVANIA ANTIQUES SHOW at Valley Forge coming this week!

We hope you have marked the Pennsylvania Antiques Show at Valley Forge as a “MUST ATTEND SHOW”. The roster of dealers is very impressive, including leading dealers of most forms of American Antiques. There will be a variety of types of art and antiques, including furniture, china, miniature antique portraits, silver art, and more, including, of course, Native American jewelry, baskets, pottery, beadwork and textiles.

We have a lot of fresh material that we will be bringing, including some notable items that we have decided to sell from my personal collection.

Zuni Conestoga wagon and mule pin

It seems appropriate that this pin should be offered on the occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the United States.

A reminder: the PA Antiques Show is being held at the Valley Forge Casino Resort, 1160 1st Avenue, King of Prussia, PA. Preview opening is April 23, 6-9 pm. Show days and hours are Friday and Saturday, April 24-25, 11 am-6 pm and Sunday, April 26, 11 am-4 pm.

There is a hotel that is close by, the Valley Forge Casino Resort. There are other hotels in the King of Prussia area as well.


Reminder about upcoming Pennsylvania Antiques Show

We are excited to be participating in a new show, the Pennsylvania Antiques Show, which will be held at the Valley Forge, PA Convention Center in King of Prussia, PA. The show is being produced by Historic Trappe. We will be celebrating our country’s 250th Anniversary and certainly the dealers will be bringing exciting material in honor of the Anniversary.

The PA Antiques Show opens with a Preview on April 23, 2026 and then it continues through Sunday, April 26, 2026. It is being held at the Convention Center at the Valley Forge Casino Resort, 1160 1st Avenue, KIng of Prussia, PA 19406. Preview Party is Thursday night, April 23rd and the show continues from April 2l4-26, 2026. Look under “upcoming shows” on our website for any details.

We are bringing some very special items from my personal collection.

Be sure to look through the items posted on the website and feel free to inquire about any of your collecting interests, in case we might have something that we have not posted.

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Fresh inventory recently added to our website

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We have been busy updating our inventory with new pottery. Please be sure to consider these pots, several of which are from my own personal collection:

Santa Clara jar by Effie Garcia

Santa Clara jar with sgraffito by Grace Medicine Flower

Santa Clara jar by Polly Rose Folwell

Acoma polychrome canteen


recent booth at Delaware Show and more

Thank you to all who attended my booth at the recent Delaware Show. It was a delight to see you and discuss the exciting inventory that I currently am offering. For those of you who could not attend, I am attaching an image of my booth.

I am also attaching an image and information about a wonderful Navajo bracelet that I am now offering. It is made out of ingot silver and has images of eagles and arrows. Be sure to look at this bracelet. It is very compelling.

Navajo ingot bracelet

Delaware Show and exciting fresh inventory

The annual Delaware Show is fast approaching. This is the major Americana Show in the country. It also qualifies as one of the oldest, if not THE oldest, American antiques show. We are once again honored to be a part of this show and we will be bringing some fresh and wonderful inventory.

The show opens with a Preview Party on November 6th, 6-9 pm. The show brochure gives details for those who want to attend the Preview Party as well as show information for those of you who can attend the show on November 7th-9th.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Information for Delaware Show 2025

Navajo J B Moore rug

Yavapai tray with figures

Exciting Nampeyo bowl recently acquired

Nampeyo (1859-1942) is considered the Matriarch of contemporary Hopi-Tewa pottery. She used traditional methods of making and firing her pots and her pottery was recognized during her lifetime as being superior. She did not sign her pots, as was the tradition at the time, but her pots can be recognized by knowledgeable people in their feel and design. Nampeyo made pots throughout her life, some of which were black-on -red as is this pot. Her pots were not signed, as was the tradition at Hopi at that time. We have dated this pot as being from circa 1910-1920.

Nampeyo’s daughters learned pottery making from their mother. Annie, in particular, was known to have made black-on-red pots.

We are excited to have acquired this pot from a private collection. It is very fresh to the market.

The Delaware Antiques Show 2024

I will be exhibiting at the annual Delaware Antiques Show which will be held November 15-17 at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, DE. Additional information can be seen on the attached brochure.

I have been busy acquiring fresh-to-the-market inventory and I am excited to offer it at this show. This includes jewelry, pottery, textiles and more. If you have specific requests for items that you would like me to bring, please let me know.

Do also let me know if you would like me to leave complimentary tickets for you. If so, I can then leave your tickets at the will call booth.

I hope you will have an opportunity to visit. Remember that there is no sales tax in Delaware.

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New inventory arriving frequently

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We are pleased to report that we have been acquiring exciting new inventory from private collections. It is important that you frequently check our website to keep up-to-date with our offerings. Most recently, we have just received a wonderful collection that includes some important pottery and textiles. Two of these items are featured below:

Historic Zuni polychrome jar

We are delighted to offer this polychrome Zuni jar. It has a wonderful form and design. The fact that it is polychrome and in such great condition is a real perk. Its size and age are also rarely found and the fact that it is fresh to the market should make a collector sit up and take notice. The price is also very enticing.

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Two Navajo (Dine') concho belts just added to website

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$5500.

(mc2356)

A Navajo (Dine’) concho belt such as this is rarely found in the marketplace. It has survived the years in remarkably good condition. Two of the conchos (including the one that is currently off the leather belt) are of a slightly different design but they are of the same size and period. It is very possible that the leather itself was added as an earlier narrow belt is visible on the interior of the belt.

Another Navajo (Dine') concho belt that we have just acquired. This one is $1500. Both are very fresh to the market.

To learn more about this belt, please click the following link :https://www.marcyburns.com/native-american-jewelry-collection/navajo-dine-concho-belt-1

Navajo (Dine') Regional eyedazzler rug

This Dine’ (Navajo) eyedazzler rug has an intriguing design. The interior of this textile has a classic eyedazzler design which is surrounded by a meander design and then red and brown borders. The weaver clearly is drawing from her experience of weaving earlier eyedazzler designs of stacked diamonds that have serrated edges and she is accomodating to the evolving use of borders.

53” wide x 78” long, handspun wool

excellent condition with some loose selvege and a small area of missing weft

ex: Private Collection

$2800.

(mc2346)

Dine' (Navajo) regional rug with eyedazzler design

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