The Victorian Tea began as part of the Woman’s Club Semi-Annual Holiday Home Tour and turned into several teas such as the Architectural Renaissance Conference tea as well as the Woman’s Rights Movement celebration tea.

The entire house from the parlors to the grand ballroom turns into a magical place. Tables will be set with lace table cloths, china tea cups and dishes and silver candlelabras. Victorian decorations will adorn the table centers. Tiny cream and sugars, lemons, and jams and jellies for the homemade scones will appear.

What makes a Victorian Tea different than an ordinary sit down tea? The food. It is labor intensive. You can have a lemon bar or you can have a lemon bar with blueberries and a mint leaf, Victorian style. As mucic fills the air, you will be served tea and sweets and savories by the ladies of the Woman’s Club.

We extend a cordial invitation and encourage the men to come and experience this with us. Tea will be served all day. All in all, you will be transported into another era of pleasure.

The purpose of this event is to support the Woman’s Club historic building and keep Warren woman’s history alive in the county.
VICTORIAN TEA & ANTIQUE SHOW
HISTORIC WOMAN’S CLUB
310 MARKET STREET, WARREN, PA 16365
APRIL 10, 2010 10:00 – 4:00 P.M.

ADVANCE TICKETS $10 or $12 at the DOOR
INCLUDES TEA & ANTIQUE SHOW with EXHIBITS
INFOR – CALL 723-5910 MARILYN – 723-8938 – MARJORIE LOPEZ
VENDORS:
1) Mary Jane Hand – Proprietor of Grandma’s tea shop. Antiques, tea books etc. – returning vendor from Bradford, Pa.
2) Jane Shaw and daughter Janice Caruso – Medium priced antiques, dishes and linens – returning vendor from Bradford ,Pa.
3) Haile Cox, Antiques intertwined with flowers – returning vendor from Bradford, Pa.
4) Off the Beaten Path – Antiques from their shop on Conewango Avenue – Warren, Pa. – returning vendor.
5) Pat& Scott Bengston –Collectors for many years. Will have French, German and China Dolls, RS Prussa and items such as Amberina. Located in Warren, Pa.
6) Sable Studios/Gretchen’s Gallery from Chautauqua, N.Y. will offer a collection of family antiques and vintage art objects.
7) The Authors Books & Music store in Warren will be offering an antique selection.
A table of vintage, antique linens and 1930-1960 crochet doilies items will be presented by Angie Dart.
9) More vendor surprises on the way.

EXHIBITORS:
1) Josie Gerardi – Silver and antique sewing machines with equipment from Warren, Pa. She is a collector of Collections.
2) Kate Reed – Antique Dolls from 10:00 0 12:00 noon. – Warren, Pa. Kate is a UFDC Certified National Doll Judge, researcher and writer.
3) Debbie Fitzsimmons, proprietor of the Shed-A Gift Shop & Museum – Scandia, Pa. She will feature antique perfume bottles of many styles over the decades. She has a large collection of compacts which emerged in the early 1900’s – fabulous and fashionable!
4) Jill Dart, Warren, Pa. – will display a lingerie dress and a Italian Truporito coverlet brides quilt. Hand stitched, heavily stuffed, corded and has 6” of Italian crochet lace. Dates from the 18th – 19th century. JIll has a diploma of Competence for completing the eleven volume course on Antiques from Asherford Institute of Antiques in
In 1995. She has traveled to Great Britian and this part of the country with her mentor and friend, Carole A. Ling, linen expert and lecturer.
5) Kathy Masterson, Warren, Pa. – History of The Piso Company, Piso’s Cure for Consumtion. She will have almanacs, cough syrup bottles, pamphlets, old hand written checks and receipts, photos of employees, piso building, history of the company and the president. She also will display Rockwell paintings courtesy of the Wilder Museum.
6) Selections of Joe DeFrees gun collection courtesy of the Wilder Museum. In a recent fund raiser where this collection was on display, men came to the Wilder Museum from all parts of the county to check this our. Rodge Shattuck will be the curator. A display not to miss.
7) Richard Iseman, Warren, Pa. He recently was featured in the Community section of the Times Observer as selected the following items for viewing. 4-6 cases of lures, glass minnow traps with bobbers. A complete set of Pa Resident Fishing License Display. There will be a hand crank Ro-peller boat motor, 1800’s cooper minnow carrying case, a gun caster used for bait casting, arrows, darts, and harpoons. A brass telescopic fish locator, a rock-it automatic fish scaler, a KIEST’S ALUMINUM CASTING REEL AND A CHAUTAUQUA LAKE MUSKIE SPEAR. A FISHERMAN’S DREAM.
TOM CAPPELLO, WARREN, PA. AND HIS COLLECTION OF OLDER TOY TRAINS, DATING FROM 1913 TO 1940. TOM AS A YOUNG BOY FROM KANE LIVING BESIDE THE RAILROAD TRACTS, TOM HAS HAD A PASSION FOR HIS COLLECTION FOR MANY YEARS. VINTAGE LIONEL, AMERICAN FLYER AND MARX TRAINS WILL ALL BE ABOARD.

CATEGORIES THAT CAN BE IDENTIFY:
1) J. GERARDI – LACE, GLASS, SILVER, PROCELAIN/CHINA.
2) K Reed – Antique Dolls
3) D Fitzsimmons, Perfume Bottles and Compacts
4) J DART – ANTIQUE/VINTAGE TABLE LINENS, BED AND BATH LINENS, EMBROIDERY LACE, CROCHET DOLLIES, SOME COVERLETS AND HANDKERCHIEFS.
5) DEFREES GUN COLLECTION – R SHATTUCK CURATOR.
6) R ISEMAN – FISHING ITEMS OF ALL KINDS, INCLUDING HIS DISPLAY ITEMS.
7) TOM CAPPILLO – TOY TRAINS
AUTHORS BOOKS – BOOK ITEMS

Marjorie Lopez, Chairperson