One newcomer was Doodletown Farm Antiques. It was the first show for dealers Bob Murphy and former Philadelphia Museum of Art curator Jack Lindsey. The partners would like to do a few more shows.

"We're trying to keep it simple," explained Lindsey. With family business to attend to after he left the museum, Lindsey also took on the restoration of a 40-acre farm with stone walls and five ponds in Columbia County, N.Y. The house he and Murphy live in is an old Livingston family property, scarcely touched since it was built in 1701.

(Doodletown Farm Booth) Photo By R. Scudder Smith

"We deal in the funny, quirky, unusual and affordable," said Lindsey. Part of Doodletown's stand was an improvised peep show, complete with salacious French photographs from the 1890s to the 1930s. On another wall were playful remnants of a bean-bag toss game, their faces hand painted on old bed springs. More inventory is on the dealers' website (www.doodletownfarm.com) and in the Millerton Antiques Center, 12 miles from their home.