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Metro Show presents an eye-alluring bonanza of treasures for collectors, designers and art-insiders alike

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The inaugural Metro Show reveals its brand new face when it opens to the public on January 19 through 22, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street in New York. Joining the brigade of the Americana dealers who signed on from the previous American Antiques Show is a new group of specialists who have expanded the vernacular of historical design, adding an exciting vitality and diversity to the fair’s new incarnation. Recently, The Art Fair Company asked the Metro dealers: “If you had to select just one object to submit to a Top Ten list, what would it be?” and here are their responses: History certainly does not repeat itself with the Metro dealers who offer one-of-a-kind pieces that played a role in the forming of our country. Take, for example, the “Washington” Lafayette Presentation Gold Button featured by Steven S. Powers – in its first display in the United States