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admin on January 15th, 2009
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After a successful trip to Britain and to Italy, we managed to buy a some nice antiques in England, of quality and rare beauty, and to ship a fully packed container of English antique furniture from our antique stores in Italy.
The trip, although very short for so much to do, was hectic but fruitful.
We are now getting ready to receive the very large quantity of English antique furniture pieces anytime in February.
We will then notify our clients and those that signed our guestbook at our antique store in Newton Highlands, Ma.
For the next few weeks, please find our hours of opening below:
Sunday and Monday: closed
Tuesday: by chance or appointment
Wednesday: 10-4
Thursday: 10-4
Friday: 10-4
Saturday: 10-4
We really welcome any visit outside these hours by appointment. In this business it’s hard to know when visitors and clients would like to view our pieces, bring pieces for evaluations and restoration quotes, and so on.
That applies to both actual clients and to prospective ones, so we would be delighted to know when anybody wants to see us and our antiques by appointment. You would be doing us a favour, so don’t be shy and don’t think that we expect you to make any commitment upon a visit by appointment.
Do us a favour, and yourselves, call on 617 9 9 9 0 2 6 9 or 617 8 9 4 0 7 3 1 to arrange an appointment now!
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admin on December 24th, 2008
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- Dec 24th: open ’til 2pm
- Dec 25th: closed
- Dec 26th: closed
- Dec 27th: open at 11am
- Dec 28th: closed or open by appointment
- Dec 29th: closed or open by appointment
- Dec 30th: open 10-5 (Tuesday)
- Dec 31st: closed or by appointment (Wednesday)
- Jan 1st: closed or by appointment (Thursday)
- Jan 2nd: closed or by appointment (Friday)
- Jan 3rd: open 10-5 (Saturday)
- Jan 4th: closed or by appointment (Sunday)
- Jan 5th: open 10-5 (Monday)
- Jan 6th: open 10-5 (Tuesday)
- Jan 7th: closed (snowstorm) (Wednesday)
- Jan 8th through Jan 16th: closed or by appointment (Tel: 6 1 7 9 2 1 3 4 4 3) (Marco goes to Europe on a buying and shipping trip, container due soon after, standby!)
You are very welcome to call 617 999 0269 for other info and appointments anytime.
Thank you!
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admin on December 12th, 2008
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…we are sorry to inform you that we are going to be closed from approx 1-1:30 to approx 3-3:30. We will then be open until 5, as usual.
Please call 617 999 0269 for more info.
We are sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
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admin on November 29th, 2008
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Today we are closing at 4 pm.
Sorry for any inconvenience, but you can call @ 6 1 7 8 9 4 0 7 3 1 for help and info.
Thank you.
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admin on November 10th, 2008
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We are sorry to announce that we are going to be closed on Monday and Tuesday, November 10th and 11th, 2008.
We will reopen on Wednesday at 11:00.
Please call @ 617 999 0269 or 617 921 3443 for more information.
Thank you!
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admin on October 13th, 2008
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We are open by appointment that you can make by calling 617 999 0269.
Have a great Columbus Day!
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admin on September 18th, 2008
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For directions, you can use the following link to Google Maps, where you can insert your address and get the detailed itinerary to our antiques’ store in Newton, Ma.
Here’s the link: http://maps.google.com/maps?li=d&hl=en&f=d&iwstate1=dir:to&daddr=1015+Boylston+St,+MA+02461+(Old+England+Antiques)&geocode=CQy8U2wzCIqvFXm7hQId8F7B-w&iwloc=1&dq=antiques&ei=xmvSSJX2B4mKqgLFu4HYCg
Clicking on it will take you to Google.
We are located on the Westbound part of Route 9, leading to I-95.
We look forward to seeing you!
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admin on September 11th, 2008
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Many wonder if it’s worth importing all the way to Boston antique pieces from Europe in this economy, with the US Dollar at record low levels against the Euro.
That’s pretty surprising to hear, but it happens more often.
The surprise is to see how distant many Americans are from Europe in the sense that they don’t know that the United Kingdom never joined the European single currency, called Euro, and is therefore not affected by the bad exchange rate Euro-USD.
Instead the British Pound Sterling is used in the UK (GBP) and that is hitting record low levels to the Euro just like the USD!
So yes, as far as currency values are concerned, it’ makes perfect sense to import quality antiques from England!
The matter is actually a lot more complicated because many other factors play a huge role in making the imports worthwhile, but you’ll be able to read more about the subject soon, here on our news and information blog.
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admin on September 10th, 2008
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Yes, it appears so, China is invading the western world, and the antiques’ world is not going to be spared.
Below is a message that we received on our VOIP, Skype.
“Dear ,we supply the antique furniture in china.we are the factory.Nice to meet you .”
The message was obviously unsolicited, what you would call SPAM if it was in an email, and just shows how far into the Western World consumers’ market the Chinese manufacturing industry are willing to go.
I don’t think I have to bring to your attention the fact that these antiques, are obviously repros, of what quality I don’t know, but definitely not antique.
I am sorry I deleted the contact before being able to copy the introduction, which sounded like an ad to their production of antiques, just making it very clear of what you would get.
So, the point is, that not all antique dealers are going to ignore these offers, and many are probably going to take advantage of these first reproductions coming from China and are going to buy them and sell them off as antiques or good quality reproductions, in other words they are going to offer what they are going to sell as good value for money.
And that of course, is not the case.
Remember that mass produced items and reproductions in particular, are never going to have any real value, since it’s the rarity of any item, not only antiques, that is one of the main factors for value.
So, buyer beware!
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admin on September 9th, 2008
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We are sorry to inform you that today, Tuesday, September the 9th, 2008, we will be closed for most of the day due to family reasons.
Please call 617 894 0731 for more info.
We apologize for the inconvenience!