Tappendorf, Tarrant Wins Best Of Show Trophies

Dwayne Tappendorf won Best of Show for non-glassware with a 1930's Metacraft, limited production toy truck.

ALTAMONT -- Dwayne Tappendorf and Kimberly Tarrant won Best of Show trophies in the antiques division Saturday afternoon, as judging got underway at the 80th Effingham County Fair. 

Tappendorf, of Altamont, took the top award for non-glassware with a 1930s Metalcraft, limited production toy truck made of pressed steel and outfitted from the factory with Pure Oil logos. The trophy was Tappendorf's first ever at the fair in antiques competition. 

Tarrant, a native of Shumway who now makes her home in Altamont, won Best of Show for glassware with an 1898 custard glass, master berry bowl made by Northwood Glass Company of Indiana, Pennsylvania. This was Tarrant's second title in the glassware division, with her first having come in 2016. 

Cleo McManaway, of Dieterich, took Reserve Champion for non-glassware with a "bee sting" stoneware crock, while Tarrant swept the glassware bracket by taking the Reserve Champion trophy with a 19th-century, Vaseline glass plate featuring a likeness of President Ulysses S. Grant. 

McManaway also earned the Reserve Champion award in the hobbies competition, with a collection of Keen Kutter hardware boxes from the 1940s and '50s. Kurt Becker, of Altamont, won Best of Show for hobbies with a pair of custard glass, sugar-and-creamer sets made by Northwood Glass in 1910. 

Also on Saturday, Brian Gilbert, of Altamont, won Best of Show in the fair's annual photography contest with a color photo of his granddaughter, Lucy, reaching for the hand of an Abraham Lincoln statue. 

More results from competitive events at the fair will be published this week as they become available.

Kim Tarrant won Best of Show for glassware at the Effingham County Fair.