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 The first glance may be very deceiving to the casual visitor. Look closely, as this is an extensive and varied site of quite unusual collectables and gifts; of old toys, dolls and trains, of knowledge, learning and even entertainment. A site that you will surely visit
again & again.
From Americana and Antiques thru Coins and Collectables to Guns, Knives, Swords and Zebra Rugs
...... We HAVE IT, We've SOLD IT, or
.... We CAN GET IT!
Always Special Sales at Hudson River Trading Co., Mechanicville ~
Our main business is in our stock of 950 or so Collector, Antique and Investment Firearms but we also are licensed and have all new guns available. Sporting collectables, Adirondack antiques, fine glassware, china and vintage toys, trains or gifts round out our standard fare. Militaria and hundreds of edged weapons
are also IN INVENTORY at our Mechanicville, New York brick and mortar store. Remember though, our prices can change without notice, up or down.
NEACA, Inc. is our sister company that organizes and promotes trade shows. Since 1982 we have staged Antique & Collectable Shows, Computer Fairs, and Toy Shows but our main events are our Gun Shows or Arms Fairs under our New Eastcoast Arms Collectors Associates banner. We have a membership of authors, students of history, militaria and firearms collectors and dealers that now numbers around 1200.
One
of our interesting Gun Shows was at the Monticello Race Track in Monticello, New York on May 19, 20, 21,
2006 but
we are most proud of our Arms Fairs in
the Saratoga Springs City Center in
upstate New York.
Friday dates are always just for exhibitors or our NEACA Members, join today if you wish to come in early at our
shows.
Our
Next Saratoga Springs, NY Show will be on
August 1, 2, 3, 2008 at the
Saratoga City Center.
Our last major event was our Arms Fair in Saratoga Springs, New York at the Saratoga City Center on Broadway, on March 14, 15, 16, 2008. See our report of the March & August Arms Fairs on our "Gun Show" page. At Saratoga we have room for 250 tables of collector guns, fine militaria and related material, also excellent displays are always presented. Our last
Saratoga Antique Arms Fair was June 16, 17, 18, 2006. It was our 63rd Show there
and our twenty second year anniversary of our opening of the City Center. We had our first Antique & Collectable Arms Fair on June 17, 18 & 19, 2005 at the City Center which went quite well, the first of this type in our area. We just had two more of our regular
Saratoga Arms Fairs on August 3, 4, 5, and October 12, 13, 14, 2007.
Try again at Saratoga Springs, NY on December 21, 22, 23, 2007. Our Christmas Dinner and Auction
was Saturday, Dec. 22nd at 7:00PM in the Ballroom at The Hotel in Saratoga which adjoins the City Center. Tickets
were $35.00 each for dinner and door prizes, drinks at
6:00PM with Auction at 8PM. All are
welcome at our future dinners.
See
our partial Auction Listing.
As for dealers we were SOLD OUT OF ALL
eight foot TABLES for the past nine out of eleven shows. Next
Convention is January 2, 3, 4, 2009.
We have scheduled two new shows in 2008 in Utica, NY.
The first Gun Show on April 4, 5, 6,
was terrific. We covered about 175
tables with quality dealers and had just
over 2000 paid admissions plus members.
Next one is on August 22, 23, 24. ... see Gun Shows.
We have less than
172 tables left to sell as of today for our
upcoming Saratoga Arms Fair
on August 1, 2, 3, 2008
because of dealer deposits from our
December
and March shows. Special Turkey Dinner for members and exhibitors for the
October Show on Friday Evening (Free, naturally) was delicious and different. Don't expect that all the time, boys!
Goulash for March went well, though.
Will be
in Little Falls, NY at the Best Western
with a small one day show on June 1st,
Sunday.
We have
a new Antique & Collectibles Show
scheduled at the Saratoga Springs City
Center on Oct. 31, November 1, 2, 2008.
Last Small Show ~ Holiday Inn Turf & Convention Center, Rt. 9, Lake George, New York, Sunday, February 11, 2007 9 to 3pm. It went real well for a small, one day event. Nice show, fine restaurant and good people to do business with. We
had another in Lake George on Sunday, February 10, 2008. Great little show bringing in about 350 public and full tables of good exhibitors.
We have produced many smaller Gun Shows
in the past and recently in Plattsburgh, Lake George,
Herkimer, Schenectady, Saranac Lake and
Amsterdam, New York.
Our Gun Show in Amsterdam, New York on September 8 & 9, 2007 at America's Best Value Inn and Pasqualli's Restaurant went well enough to have another especially with the plans to renovate and grow in size.
Again we were at the VFW Post 4915, 131 Mohawk Street in
Herkimer, NY .... May 19, 20, 2007 ... and in
Plattsburgh, NY at the VFW Post #125 on Boynton Ave. this past June 2, 3, 2007.
We have promoted shows in Newburg, Kingston, Peekskill, Catskill, Utica, and Fishkill, NY, and at the Sons of Italy Lodge, in Deer Park, Long Island on various Sundays and at the Holiday Inn at Lake George in February during the popular Winter Carnival. Plus many other areas in the Northeast. We also have other things planned so go to "Gun Shows"
for all of our upcoming events. Part of our business is finding items for you at these shows. Send us an E-mail of what you may be looking for and we will see what we can do. Also see our monthly Gun Show Report.
In the past we have published the "Arms Collectors Journal" and began printing our NEW Journal on the 15th of March, 2005. This time, we also offer it on-line. Eventually, when we really get it organized, we will allow advertising on our pages to our membership and others, but for now we simply wish to have it grow. Also see a new page of interest we created called "Dave's World and Yours." And another new page called ...
... where you will find links to stories and political pages and other things...
.....another popular new page is "ITEMS WANTED" and we just created by popular demand a "Consignment Page" for special items.
For just plain folks in general you will surely want to see our updated page "Items of INTEREST". Simply click on icon to the left for some truly amazing nature photos.
"America's New War" is where we also have some interesting items, not a page for the faint of heart. Plus some "Games" of skill. We have created a page for a front line report from Baghdad with personal servicemen insights ...
"Gifts" is a page of unique things that will interest a diverse public. We are now working on a new page of Avon Collector Jewelry and also have
"Jewelry & Small Things," you may want to watch this. Another new page is our "Garage Sale", never know what turns up.
To learn more click on "About Us" at the top of our page and please view our site thru our headings at left of page or for more, go to our "Collector Site Map." We are very pleased you stopped by and hope you will visit again, perhaps add us to your favorites and tell your friends. For appraisals or research information go to "Contact Us" for our fees and
remember our time is as valuable as yours.
The only way we know what brought you to our site and what you may want to see here is by sending us an e-mail. The month of May 1 thru 31 gave us 6,024,511 hits, so we must be doing something right. To date we are averaging over 6 Million hits per month. Page views and visits are the real key to success for a website and ours have been very strong, over 126,000 views last month! Our next milestone was for 175,000 monthly visits to our site, for the month of May we had 176,473. We constantly look to improve and update but this is still just a "me and Cathy"
operation so all good things take time. Bear with us and stop by often. Be among the 176,000 people who visited our site in May. Over 5693 daily visits are registered to our site with an average of 4077 DAILY PAGE VIEWS.
That is equivalent to having over six million people drive by our shop in Mechanicville and having over 176,000 stop by and look in our window each month. Then to have over 4000 of them walk thru the shop and look around each and every day! Not a bad record. See our "Consignment Page" if you feel you want to trust us to handle your heirlooms.
We have started a Silent Auction Page where items are up for bid on-line and at our store. We will have a two week viewing period and closings at 6pm EST on Wednesdays. See our current auction and register to bid on Silent Auction.
WE TRY TO UPDATE OUR PAGES EVERY TUESDAY BEFORE NOON. NEW MERCHANDISE IS ADDED DAILY OR AS WE CAN. BE SURE TO CHECK!
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