Our March 2026 Newsletter

Jan & John Maggs

Antiques and Art

March Newsletter

Although this has been the most challenging winter of recent memory, and the heavy blanket of snow is just beginning to recede, we're increasingly confident that spring will, indeed, arrive more or less on schedule. In a month we'll be in the Cotswolds, and we hope that life will have returned to normal.

Our annual Spring Opening is scheduled to take place soon after our return on the weekend of May 16 - 17. We've already prepared several dozen of the pieces that will be listed at that time, and we expect to add more when we return. We hope you'll mark your calendars.

This month's newsletter contains pictures we took of a recent mini break in New York, a walk through Kensington Park on Easter of 2007, and an unexpected gift out of the blue. Although we're saving most of our newest inventory for the May show, we're listing a handful of new pieces, as well.

Enjoy.

This month's new listings

A bit of serendipity this month, including silver, a grand brass sconce, period Delft tiles on modern stands, a pair of pineapple finials, a striking Medici lion, an antique Quashqai bag face, and three interesting vintage furniture pieces, all priced to sell quickly.

Click the picture for a look.

A Visit to New York's Metropolitan Museum

Not everyone enjoys the company of an experienced local guide when visiting a large city, but we were invited by Jan's daughter Lindsey to spend a few days visiting attractions and restaurants in New York with her. In her many years of living in the city, Lindsey has explored and experienced some of the best that New York has to offer. Now she was anxious to share a bit of it with us.

Apart from food, the high points of our visit were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its medieval branch, The Cloisters. We invite you to click the picture above and enjoy a few of our favorite images.

Notes From Our Past

While searching past newsletters for a piece to include in this space, we came across a story that captures everything about the springtime we're all hoping for. We invite you to join us in London on Easter Sunday, 2007 for a stroll through Kensington Park. Perhaps it will give you hope that warmer times are coming. Just click the picture.

The Back Page

On March 2, the Conway Historical Society received an email containing a photograph of the large 19th-century barn on our property that was at different times a dairy barn and, more recently, our antiques shop. The author is documenting the demise of the New England barn in a book containing photographs and background information on several New England barns that are no longer standing. You may know that our beloved barn was destroyed by a freak February tornado in 2017, so its story will fit comfortably in this volume.

We've been in touch with the author and given him some background on the barn, its restoration, and its untimely destruction. In exchange, he has given us permission to publish his picture, taken in October 1984, just a few months before we became its most recent stewards.

It's a great photograph that evokes strong feelings in the two of us. If you ever visited our antiques shop that filled that barn, we trust that you'll be moved as well. Just CLICK HERE for the picture and a link to some history.

Jan & John Maggs Antiques and Art

www.jmaggs.com