Jan & John Maggs

Antiques and Art

Our February Newsletter

Greetings from snow-bound Conway. We're sitting in our comfortable office putting the finishing touches on this month's newsletter. Here's what you can expect as you scroll down this page.


In February 2011 we completely redecorated our shop to highlight more than twenty newly acquired paintings and other wall art in a showroom furnished with Chinese antiques. We called it "Climbing the Walls", and we and all who came had great fun. This month we're reprising that event, with more than a dozen works of art selected for quality, price, and variety. You'll find a link to the show below.


Just below it there's a link to a pictorial of our recent visit to Dordrecht, Netherlands and its exceptional museum. If you've enjoyed wandering through other museums with us, you won't want to miss this one!


Next, we continue our monthly series of stories from our past with a snapshot of our early years in business and the forces that inspired our website and these monthly newsletters.


Finally, the Back Page is a brief video of scenes from the original version of Climbing the Walls. We hope you'll have a look.

Climbing the Walls (again)

A rich offering this month, including paintings, prints, a Chinese long bench, and a large chinoiserie desk. Click the collage to visit the show, and look for the link to a brief video of this month's offerings.

A Visit to the Dordrecht Museum

One of the high points of our September week in the Netherlands was a day trip from Rotterdam to Dordrecht to visit the city's wonderful museum. Click the picture of the museum grounds to join us inside.

Notes From Our Past

While we were poring through past issues to find a piece for this month's column, we happened upon a bit of history that seems appropriate to repeat in this, our 23rd year of publication. In 2015 we titled the piece "How the Internet has changed how we do business". Little did we know how important to our later success those changes would become. Click the picture of the barn that was leveled by a tornado in 2017 to read a brief recounting of our early years.

The Back Page

As mentioned above, we've made a little video from the still pictures we took in the original Climbing the Walls show in 2011. Readers who came to our old barn in those days might enjoy a visit to our old showroom. Just click HERE for a look.

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