BRIMFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - The tents are filling up as returning vendors unpack and display the best of what they have to offer at the Brimfield Antique Show.

“If anybody hears of Brimfield, they think of antiques,” said Haroldyne Rannels with Olde Good Things Antiques.

The show, which is widely considered the largest antique show in the country, opens on Tuesday for its May fair.

Dealers from across the country set up shop along Route 20, filling more than a dozen show fields with everything from fine furniture and vintage jewelry to folk art, collectibles and one-of-a-kind rarities.

The show runs three times a years and draws people like Dave Baillargeon who has been chasing hidden gems for 60 years.

“It’s a treasure hunt, you never know what you’re going to find,” said Baillargeon. “Every house call you get, you expect the best and you have to sometimes accept the worse.”

Baillargeon is with Swinging Bride Auction. He knows what can catch the attention of a shopper, but he couldn’t do it without his righthand man Olan Horne who started working with Baillargeon despite believing he would always just be a buyer.

“Fifteen years later, I’m here in the morning with the truck, opening, talking to the things,” said Horne. “They’re talking to the people, arranging things, putting it on the truck.”

Horne says an event like Brimfield is about much more than just the collectibles or the price tags, it’s about the people.

“It’s a great experience,” he said. “I mean, you’ve got how many miles of antiques and as precious as all these things are behind us, the people are too.”

The first week of the 2026 antique show ends Saturday.

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