Jan and John Maggs Antiques
Conway, Massachusetts
Newsletter -- September 29, 2006
A hot air balloon makes a landing on a misty September morning.
Since last month's newsletter . . . .
. . . the Vermont ADA show was our best outing in several months. We sold six pieces of furniture (unheard of), five paintings (WOW), and several smalls. Not all dealers were as elated as we were when the show closed at 4:00 on Sunday, though several reported sales of significant pieces.
Our other September shows might be best described as lackluster. Three appearances at Brimfield, even with entirely different stock at each, added up to one average show in "the good old days." On the following Sunday Antiques in a Cow Pasture was not very well attended, and our sales were soft, though better than any of our single Brimfield shows. The Newport show? . . . the less said, the better!
This Saturday will be our seventh (and last) show in September. We've saved a few fresh things for our first appearance at the Golden Ball Tavern Show, and we hope to end the month on a high note. Next September will be far less busy than this year, as we plan to drop at least two of this month's shows. Look for our 2007 show schedule in our November newsletter.
Our shop, by contrast, has been very busy, despite our chronic absence on these September weekends. Our website and this newsletter continue to bring us new customers and sustain relationships with those of you who can't easily get to the shop. Thanks to all.
On October 1, Antiques and the Arts Weekly (The Bee) launches its online edition. Print subscribers may gain free access by registering on the paper's website, while non-subscribers may subscribe to the online edition for $50.00 a year. Take a look at this month's Bee online by clicking HERE. Congratulations to Scudder Smith and the staff at the Bee for taking this significant step.
This month we've added a new page to our website -- Recently Sold Pieces -- in which we'll display favorite pieces that have passed through the shop in recent months. You may also note a consequent reduction in the size of our stock galleries as we purge them of sold things. Visit the Recently Sold Gallery by clicking HERE. (WARNING: this gallery contains many images and will take an interminable time to load on a slow connection.)
WEEKEND SHOP HOURS
Click here for a calendar.
UPCOMING SHOWS
We'll end this month on September 30 with another first-time-for-us-show at
The Golden Ball Tavern in Weston MA
We have only one show in October:
Rhinebeck! on the 7th & 8th
November begins on the 4th & 5th with our
Gala Fall Opening at our shop in Conway
On November 17th & 18th, 2006
we'll be at the Wethersfield Antiques Show
We'll finish our show year on November 26
at Nan Gurley's Thanksgiving Sunday Show at
the Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough, MA
Click here for our complete show schedule for 2006.
This Month's Featured Inventory
A Selection of Recent Finds
American Furniture
One-drawer pine taper-leg table [#17161]
Large pine cupboard (kas) [#17176]
Grain-painted Vermont pine cupboard [#17179] SOLD
Six-board New England blanket box [#17188] SOLD
Pine one-drawer blanket chest [#17214]
To visit our gallery of American Furniture click here.
English and Continental Furniture
Diminutive Hepplewhite two- over two-drawer chest [#17157] SOLD
To visit our gallery of English Furniture click here.
Smalls
Small chestnut box with burl veneer [#17001]
Walnut candle box [#17147]
Leather-covered pine dome-top box [#17165]
Pair of brass Chippendale andirons [#17185]
18th century mantel from a Tiverton, RI house [#16521]
Hardwood mortar and pestle [#17053] SOLD
Lignum vitae mortar and pestle [#17181]
Painted cutlery box [#17123]
Pair of small blown tumblers [#17134] SOLD
Ovoid stoneware jug [#17137]
Small Bellarmine jug [#17212] SOLD
Isaac Watts Psalms [#17164] SOLD
Horn flagon with iron handle [#17178]
To visit our Smalls Gallery click here.
Jewelry
Georgian rose diamond earrings [#16910]
Paste day/night earrings [#16946]
Citrine tops and drops [#C8026] SOLD
To visit our Period Jewelry Gallery click here.
Paintings
Oil painting on canvas by Swedish artist Lennart Larsson [#17042] SOLD
Portrait in oils by well-listed American artist Edwin Burrage Child [#17071]
Oil painting on canvas by well-listed Danish artist Rudolf Rud-Petersen [#17168]
Oil painting on canvas by listed Belgian artist Victor De Groux [#17219]
To visit our gallery of American and European paintings click here.
This month, the second of five installments of Our Ashfield Odyssey: Chapter
2: First Winter -- January to May 2005
Tales of the Trade
A brief sequel to last month's Back Page, Hutch Table II.
The Back Page
An interesting antique appears at a New Hampshire show. Click here to see it.
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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