MANCHESTER, N.H.— Every year the venerable New Hampshire Antiques Show draws crowds of Americana devotees, who line up eagerly to peruse the wares of the category’s major purveyors of furniture, textiles, folk art, genre paintings and more. For this, the 52nd edition, running August 6 through 8 at the Radisson Center in Manchester, 67 exhibitors from throughout the Northeast will bring "something for every budget," says Sharon Platt, a member of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association, which manages the event. The furniture dealer Peter Eaton, of Newbury, Massachusetts, is bringing an oval-topped, late 18th-century Queen Anne tea table priced in the low to mid five figures, while Jan Whitlock, of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, is stocking her booth with an early 20th-century hooked rug depicting a trotting horse ($5,000) and a rare three-drawer box from Vermont, priced at $15,000. An added lure: The "Live Free or Die" state has no sales tax.

"Highly Collectible" originally appeared in the July/August 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's July/August 2009 Table of Contents.