Jan and John Maggs
Antiques
NEWSLETTER - May 10,
2012
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Our Spring Opening - - Before & after
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In this month's newsletter we focus on new stock listings and on
last weekend's Spring Opening. We're happy to report that, once
again, the Opening was enormously successful. But even after
selling nearly one hundred objects during the weekend, there are
many fine, fresh pieces in the shop. In the first entry below,
you'll see photos of the shop on Saturday morning, after which
we'd like to show you a few of the star sales of the weekend.
Next come our new stock listings, which will include furniture,
paintings, jewelry, and smalls. Whether you were able to be here
or not, we invite you to spend some time browsing. If you're
persuaded to visit us, you'll also find our schedule for the
remainder of the month and information about our next show,
Rhinebeck. Of course, we have all of the usual
diversion. We
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Our Spring Opening took
place on May 5 & 6. We swung open the barn doors at 10:00
sharp, and within a few minutes the shop was bustling with
more than two dozen avid shoppers, milling about our three
showrooms and claiming bargains for themselves. When the
weekend was over, nearly one hundred pieces had found new
homes, and the shop looked as if it had been attacked by a
giant vacuum cleaner. For a few BEFORE pictures, click on the
picture.
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Because our April buying trip yielded more than 150 new pieces
and, since we'd set aside nearly half that number during the
preceding months, there were hundreds of fresh antiques to
tempt the shoppers who came to our Opening. To tease our
readers even further, we published a photo of the carving
above in our pre-Opening mailing. Now that the Opening is
behind us, we'd like to share a picture of the armchair that
bears it as a front stretcher. For that picture as well as
shots of several more favorites, click the carving.
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New stock listings
Now that our Spring Opening is behind us, we've
taken all of the spare minutes between daily trips to Brimfield
to get our May newsletter online. Knowing that many of our
readers are anxious to see our new stock, we've listed nearly
two dozen pieces - furniture, jewelry, and an assortment of
smalls. Click on the picture to have a look. |
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Spring-Summer Hours
Our shop will be open on most Sundays through September. We'd
love to see you, but before you drive to Conway, you might
check our
website, send us an email, or give us a call. |
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Our next show is Rhinebeck, at
the Dutchess County Fairgrounds on May 26 & 27. For more details
and a discount card, click the flier. |
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Quick Links
Additional links to more than 11,000 pages and images will be
found in the Quick Links box on our website.
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Free crates - email now!
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Pippin's Page
Click Pippin's nose for this month's photo of our little guy.
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The Back Page
One of the pleasures of our openings is walking
through our showrooms sniffing and looking at the flower
arrangements that Jan creates from supermarket flowers and
cuttings from our own gardens. We'd like to share three of
this year's best arrangements. Click
here.
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We hope you've enjoyed this month's newsletter. If you find
anything here that you think you'd like, please email or
call. We're at Brimfield this
week, so our response time might be slower than usual, but
we'll get back right away. Thanks for reading.
John and Jan
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