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admin on July 29th, 2008
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As expected, our hallstands are a priority, but to be very honest, not one of the pieces that we brought to the show got less attention than most of the others. Of course a few were obviously really attractive, such as the large bookcase, the Victorian chest of drawers, the Edwardian music cabinet, and so on.
Although we didn’t want to bring too many pieces, given the only very few hours to load/unload/setup and vice-versa, we did bring quite a few different articles to give a good idea of what we have and can get, and how we can refinish them, personally and without outsourcing the restoration.
Of course that made it a very big effort, and it’ll take a few days before we can be back to the normal set up in the store and therefore to normal business.
We brought Walnut, Mahogany, Rosewood, Victorian, Edwardian, Georgian, even one high quality Art Deco cabinet, and bookcases, display cabinets, chests of drawers (bureaus or bureaux, or dressers), tables, trolleys (carts), writing desks, stools, settees, music cabinets, corner cabinets, mirrors, chiffoniers (sideboards or buffets), and of course, hallstands (hat and coats stands, umbrella and stick stands).
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admin on July 28th, 2008
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The show is over, the weather wasn’t bad, great during set up on Friday, after many days of constantly rainy days with thunderstorms, good in the morning of the first day, definitely too hot in the afternoon, concerning during the night, when it rained really heavily in the Boston area, but with no damage to the furniture, and generally overcast during the whole second day, which was great except for the very high humidity and the fact that it probably scared many that were considering the day ant the antique show. Of course it started raining at 3:59, and at 4 we started loading our antiques again and then unloaded them at our store on Route 9.
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admin on July 3rd, 2008
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We are open until 3pm on Wednesday 3rd, we will then be closed until Tuesday 7th.
We will reopen at 1pm on Wednesday 8th.
Thanks and have a great 4th of July weekend!
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admin on May 30th, 2008
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We are just back from a buying trip to England. We travelled around the country for a few days and what we selected is being collected by our shippers.
It’ll be a little while until we get the antiques in the US, but we can definitely say that it was a good trip.
The low value of the US Dollar is actually helping us find some good deals, since there’s very little competition at the auction houses.
At the same time we didn’t find as many as we need and as we want, so we’ll go back soon to buy more.
Once there’s a good quantity, we will ship the whole lot in a full container, thus keeping the costs low.
That’s always been our strategy and we will use it until it works as it does so far.
Anyway, we will soon have photos of the pieces available to view at our store on Route 9, so clients can get an idea of what antiques will be available soon, decide whether to secure a piece that is coming or buy one that’s already available, or just refine any ideas about the antiques that they need.
In any case, you are more than welcome to drop by our store for a chat.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon!
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admin on January 26th, 2008
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