Jan and John Maggs Antiques

Conway, Massachusetts

Newsletter -- June 17, 2005

A Fall wedding in the mowing beside our shop.

Since our last newsletter.....

......we've done quite a bit of buying. A very rewarding buying trip to Maine and New Hampshire was followed by a well-spent morning at the Farmington show. Our pickers continue to appear regularly, and local auctions have yielded a few pleasant surprises. On the selling side, we had a very good Rhinebeck show, an exceptional response to the inventory presented in last month's newsletter, and business in our shop has begun to come out of the winter doldrums.

Thanks to those of you who wrote after the last installment of our year-long chronicle of the restoration of our house. We hope that during the fall and winter months we can feature images of the interior as it is today.

UPCOMING SHOWS

Our next show is the Brewster Historical Society's 32nd Annual Outdoors Antiques Fair on Saturday, June 25. For more information, click here.

Our July schedule includes four shows. They are:

• July 5. The Dealer's Choice; Brimfield, MA. Click here for more information.

• July 7. May's Antiques Market; Brimfield, MA. Click here for more information.

• July 9. Dorset, Vermont. Click here for more information.

• July 23. Rhinebeck Summer Magic. Click here for more information.

To see a complete listing of our show schedule for 2005, click here.

Featured Inventory

This month we begin to catch up on our listings of furniture. The past weeks have been kind to us, and we have several recently acquired pieces of American furniture to report.  We have also begun the process of de-accessioning pieces from our personal collection. A few examples follow:

• Pennsylvania William and Mary Highboy

• Set of four Maine ladderback side chairs SOLD

• Pine corner cupboard SOLD

• Two Wethersfield CT banister back side chairs SOLD

• Sheraton stand in old red wash SOLD

• Large trestle table on shoe feet

• Petite period cherry drop-leaf table SOLD

• Paint-decorated Sheraton stand SOLD

• Petite Jacobean oak chest of drawers SOLD

This Month's Feature

We've recently spent four days at the Spring Rhinebeck show. Click here for There's No Business Like Show Business, a pictorial essay on how we plan and set up our booth at this great show.

Tales of the Trade

Click here for this month's entry, an editorial on the negative effect of Early Buying on antiques shows.

Links

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Thanks for taking the time to read our little monthly. As always, we encourage you to e-mail any comments that might make the newsletter more useful to you. Just click the mailbox, or write to jmaggs@jmaggs.com.

And we thank you for being a customer.

John and Jan