Sims Rogers Offers Her Antiques Expertise At 7th Annual Gladstone Antiques Show Presented by The Glemade Trust Company of New Jersey

Gladstone, NJ-July 31, 2001- Sims Rogers of Maryland will serve as the Antiques Dealer Liaison, offering her expertise and knowledge of antiques, at the seventh annual Gladstone Antiques Show, 21-23, 2001, at the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Olympic Training Center in Gladstone New Jersey.

Rogers has made her living in the antiques business since 1974. She has owned antiques shops in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and has done all types of antiques restoration from furniture to paintings. She has been a consultant, appraiser, lecturer, and instructor. Additionally, she has been the producer and manager of the highly-acclaimed, semi-annual Mid Atlantic Antiques Market, a two-day antiques show catering to the Baltimore - Washington, DC community.

Sims Rogers, a southerner by birth, earned her Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

The Gladstone Antiques Show will also feature members of the USET's tremendously successful Sydney 2000 Olympic Eventing, Dressage and Show Jumping teams hosted by Mintz & Associates, Inc. The Olympians will serve as the Honorary Co-Chairs of the Friday evening Preview Party, a premier social event, sponsored by Knickerbocker, LLC and hosted by Town & Country Magazine.

Equestrian enthusiasts and antiques collectors alike will have the opportunity to meet the Olympic athletes throughout the weekend. Among the Olympians invited are Eventing Individual Gold Medalist David O'Connor, members of the Bronze Medal Eventing and Dressage teams, and the Show Jumping team which includes New Jersey resident Nona Garson. Over 50 dealers from throughout the nation will be offering a wonderful variety of 17th, 18th and 19th century antiques for sale. "The Fall Garden" theme of this year's show will showcase unique garden collections of antique dealers as well as paint country and period furniture. The show will also feature fine early American, English, and Continental furniture and formal decorative arts, paintings and prints, silver, and oriental rugs, as well as a large selection of folk art and Americana. All antiques are authenticated and guaranteed by the dealers.

The European architectural achievement of the USET headquarters provides an appropriately unique setting for the antiques show. Dealers will display their antiques in the elegant stable facility as well as the spacious indoor arena. The facility was originally part of the resplendent country estate of James Cox Brady and at its zenith sprawled over 5,000 acres. Spectators will also enjoy the equestrian exhibitions to be presented throughout the weekend. The event is easily accessible from all New York and New Jersey points by major interstates 78 and 287.

New to this year's schedule is an exciting scavenger hunt, courtesy of Tree-Tech, with participants winning gift certificates for use at the show. The weekend will feature a Saturday Afternoon Tea hosted by the Olde Mill Inn of Bernardsville and Saturday's Champagne Brunch hosted by Hamilton Farm Golf Club while Sunday's Champagne Brunch will be hosted by Peapack-Gladstone Bank. Musical entertainment for the weekend is courtesy of Richard A. Eisner and Company. Paul Miller Motors will host a display of luxury automobiles throughout the weekend. Other sponsors include Gary's Wine and Marketplace and Dubrow's Landscape, Inc.

"After having been associated with the Gladstone Antiques Show as an antiques dealer for the past four years, I am really pleased to have been asked to become even more involved with the production of the show. It is such a good cause, the location is unique and the committee is composed of dedicated, hard working volunteers. It's exciting to watch the enthusiasm grow as the show draws closer," commented Rogers.

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The USET is so grateful for the generous contributions and commitment of the Gladstone Antiques Show sponsors who have made this event possible. The USET is a non-profit organization that selects, trains, equips and finances equestrians of the highest possible standard to represent our country in major international competition, including the Olympic Games and World Championships. To accomplish this the USET seeks out and nurtures the development of talented athletes- - riders, drivers and horses - - and provides the support and guidance they need to help them attain their fullest potential.

Daily general admission is $10.00 per adult. Children under 12 are free. All proceeds from the show will benefit the USET. For hours, invitations, directions, or other information, please contact Lilibet Clarke at (908) 234-1251.