Jan and John Maggs Antiques
Newsletter March 12, 2004
Hello again. First, our thanks to those of you who responded to our first newsletter with encouragement and suggestions. We trust that the incorporation of your ideas will make this issue even more interesting and enlightening than our first.
This month we've made a major change in our Internet presence. As our website and related activities have grown, we've moved to a new server, one who offers us much greater and more reliable resources at a fraction of what we've been paying. You might already notice an increase in connection and download speed; in the weeks that follow, you'll notice other website improvements as well.
One of the important resources we've gained by this move is the ability to adopt a more personal, more memorable, and more permanent e-mail address. Though we'll still maintain our Comcast address (at least until Comcast sells out to someone else!), our new, official e-mail address is jmaggs@jmaggs.com. You'll probably receive another e-mail informing you of this change.
We're very excited about this upgrade and hope that you will notice a difference. As with all new ventures, however, there may be glitches in this one. If so, we thank you in advance for your patience and ask that you let us know if there's a problem.
This month's New Inventory page features the very best new finds of the past month, including two 'best evers': an applewood slant lid desk and a late Elizabethan court cupboard. We also feature a Pilgrim century thistle-foot blanket chest, three new antiques for the hearth, and a great lignum vitae mortar and pestle. Click here for a look.
Our Upcoming Shows page will, as usual, give you an insider's look at our shows for the next two months, an important announcement about our Spring Grand Opening, and a link to a review of the Tolland antiques show. Click here to go to this month's shows page.
Watch for our April newsletter for "The Savvy Buyer's Guide to Brimfield".
Our Features Page this month contains another article from The Magazine Antiques, Volume I, number 1: A Cabinet-Maker's Cabinet-Maker: Notes on Thomas Sheraton, 1752-1806. The article is six pages in length and will load slowly, due to the high resolution required for clarity and legibility. But those with an interest in Sheraton furniture will find it well worth the wait. Click here to get started.
This month's Tales of the Trade features a story sent to us by a reader. Click here if you'd like a chuckle.
We've added some Links of local interest. You can take a look by clicking here.
If you didn't receive last month's newsletter, you can still see it by clicking here.
From time to time, we'll share our experiences in the art and antiques world with our readers. One of the high points of our February was a trip to Greenwich, Connecticut to discover the Bruce Museum and see Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer. This stunning exhibition "examines the sudden interest among seventeenth century Dutch painters in scenes involving writing, reading and receiving letters. Love Letters traces the origins of the theme of letter writing in Holland from its inception around 1630 to its full flowering in the third quarter of the century. Works by artistic masters such as Johannes Vermeer, Dirck Hals, Gerard ter Borch, Gabriel Metsu, Frans van Mieris, Jan Steen, and Pieter de Hooch are showcased in this landmark exhibition. Organized by the Bruce Museum, Love Letters is comprised of 37 Dutch masterpiece paintings drawn from European and American public and private collections." A well-presented and engaging commentary accompanies the paintings, which are thoughtfully hung in a large, but intimate gallery. Though we visited on a Tuesday (when admission is free), there was no crowd, and we were able to spend as much time with individual works as we wished. If you love 17th century Dutch painting, treat yourself to this exhibition. It's up through May 2nd.
Click on this link to visit the website of the Bruce Museum.
As always, we encourage you to e-mail your comments. Just use this link.
And we thank you for being a customer.
John and Jan