At No. 452, Joel J. Einhorn specializes in American clocks, ship paintings and fine furniture from 1750 to 1850. One ship painting, signed by Baltimore marine artist Muhlenfeld and dated 1906, illustrates a workboat called Sprigg Carroll; it is tagged at $18,500. The exceptional pieces include a beautifully proportioned Queen Anne cherry highboy made in Stonington, Connecticut, around 1775 ($24,500); a tiger-maple Chippendale six-drawer chest, circa 1785, from eastern Connecticut ($38,500); a demilune Hepplewhite table ($35,000); and a few examples of faux-bamboo bedroom furniture made in New York City ($9,500 for a large desk; $4,000 for a chair).

At Wayne Pratt Inc. Antiques, No. 346, front rooms welcome visitors with “Americana” accessories, including toys, country signs and copper weathervanes, such as “Mountain Boy” a late 19th-century horse attributed to J.W. Fiske of New York. Traditional American, English and French 18th- and 19th-century furnishings—featuring bowfront, serpentine and block-front designs—await in the back showroom. In addition to a variety of antiques, Pratt offers quality bench-made reproductions.

Black Pearl Antiques and Fine Arts, No. 161, is the newest dealer in town. Owners Gerard J. Graci and Richard J. LeBlanc opened their 3,100-square-foot showroom in September 2002 after 12 years of selling period furniture, Asian antiquities and fine arts in Glastonbury, Connecticut. They sell prestigious estate pieces, including American period furniture dating from the mid-18th century. Featured are an American Chippendale cherry lowboy signed “Timothy Loomis,” circa 1760, ($175,000) and a circa-1730 highboy ($165,000), which were purchased from heirs of the original owners, the Brooks Family of Chester, Connecticut. Also of note is J. Frank Waldo’s 1913 Connecticut Impressionist painting, “A Cove of the Thames Connecticut” ($25,500). Also take note of the 15th-century Italian fine art, 18th- and 19th-century sculpture (some from the Paris Salon) and Asian Antiquities.

The highest-quality urban American Federal pieces are well worth the mile detour to David Dunton Antiques on Weekeepeemee Road. (Dunton notes there is no number easily visible, but he is located at Rte. 132 off Rte. 47, the second house on the left.) Since 1974, Dunton has been bringing rare finds to Woodbury from sources spanning from Maine to South Carolina. Examples include a circa-1820 cherry tall case clock signed by John Kennard from Newfields, New Hampshire, ($31,000) and a circa 1810–15 Sheraton canopied bed with fine inlays, from Portsmouth, New Hampshire ($17,000). Also of note are a circa-1790 walnut chest of drawers from Lancaster ($23,000) and a pair of Baltimore consoles that transform into a two-part mahogany dining table ($19,500). Among the appropriate American, English and French accessories of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there’s an eagle-topped, gilt looking glass from 1805 ($21,500) and paintings that date from 1780 to 1930.