Antique items will be on display Saturday during the annual Antiques and Art Show at Osage Farms.

Diane Cole, the owner of Osage Antiques, will host the show from 8 a.m. to 3.p.m. Saturday.

It is free admission, and there will be items on sale that include antiques from 15 different antique dealers throughout the area, as well as handcrafted artworks.

There are fiber arts, jewelry, glass beads and pendants, textiles, and pottery available to purchase.

Cole said all of the antiques presented are from no later than the 1960s.

The Antique and Art Show was started in the fall of 2006 as a way to showcase her antiques and a friends art, Cole said.

Karenlee Spencer, a friend of Cole’s, wanted to display her gourd art and Cole had been starting to collect antiques, so they decided to display the pieces together in a show.

Since then, the show has occurred the last Saturday of April and September.

One of Cole’s most interesting finds for this show is a mid-1800s five-gallon cobalt decorated stoneware.

The jug is colored cobalt blue with two gigantic Xs.

She said after her research, she found that this type of stoneware was made by slaves or made to contain poisonous material that should not be consumed.

“That was something new for us,” Cole said, adding that she is eager to sell this item.

Another of Cole’s favorite antiques is a quilt that is completely homemade.

Cole said she picked up the quilt at an estate sale by a woman whose great grandmother created the quilt by hand.

She raised the sheep and then cleaned and wove the sheep’s wool into a blanket.

Cole said this handcrafted 1870s piece is on sale at the show for $150.

Hung outside of the 1850s log built Summer Kitchen, a cabin Cole purchased in Missouri and rebuilt next to the warehouse, are two 8 ft.-tall snowshoes.

Cole said she discovered that these snowshoes were made in Maine and used as an advertisement displayed on the outside of a fence at the end of a lane to show people that they could purchase snowshoes there.

The pair of snowshoes is on sale for $700.

Cole and her husband Gary often go on buying trips, traveling to many different states throughout the country.

“We especially like southern Indiana and Kentucky and upstate New York,” Cole said.

But they can obtain antiques anywhere, she added.

“Sometimes people in the area call me,” Cole said.

People often call her to show an antique whether it is an item from a deceased grandparent or something they discovered in a basement.

The event Saturday will not only include antiques and art, but it will feature a live band, Big Blue Mountain.

There will also be food venders set up outside.

The entire art and antique show is set up in a warehouse under a roof in the event of bad weather.

The show is located at 6558 N. County Road 1320 E. in Charleston.

Marissa Muskievicz can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].