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DARIEN, Conn. – While browsing through displays of sparkling jewelry, handmade possessions and dazzling paintings at the 45th Annual Darien Antiques Show on Saturday, Carol Ann Bender spotted a 19th-century mirrored ladies dressing box made in China.

“I’ve been active to antique shows my whole life, and that is a really cool antique,” said Bender of Norwalk, pointing to the husky rosewood dressing box and its small cabinets while catching a glimpse of herself in the mirror image.

“I just may buy it,” she said as she checked out other items on display from the Griswold Alley Antiques of Glastonbury. “Everything here is so cool.”

The Glastonbury antiques shop is among 35 exhibitors bewitching part this weekend in the three-day show at the First Congregational Church of Darien, 14 Brookside Procedure. It concludes Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Antiques, jewelry and coins can be appraised at the show Sunday between noon and 2 p.m. 

“I fondness this show so much I drove down from my home in Old Saybrook,” said 78-year-old Hansje Hill, a former Darien tenant and antiques dealer who operated a booth at the show for more than 20 years.

Source: The Daily New Canaan

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