We specialize in seventeenth-century English furniture -- both oak and walnut -- as well as English country furniture up to 1750. Our smalls complement our furniture and include early fragments and carvings, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century needlework, metalware (silver, bronze, and pewter), and pottery.

John receiving his honorary doctoral degree from the University of Antwerp, May 6, 2008 (click to enlarge).

We've Moved

We have moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts. Our website and email addresses remain the same. Our new phone number is 978.356.3861. We will be open by appointment only in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Please call to arrange a visit.

Our stock changes regularly. We strive to keep our site current by adding new items as they arrive and moving sold objects to our Recently Sold category.

All of our merchandise is personally selected and guaranteed. We are members of the Art and Antique Dealers League of America, Inc., the Antique Dealers' Association of America, Inc., and the Vermont Antiques Dealers' Assocation.

Fiske & Freeman's Black Wax Polish. Ideal for all woods but speciallly formulated for oak and walnut furniture. Imported from England.

Our property in Vermont is for sale. A classic mid-19th century Greek Revival farmhouse with a late 18th-century post-and-beam cape attached, situated in the middle of 110 acres of conserved land adjacent to Green Mountain National Forest. With over 5,000 square feet of living space on 30 acres of conserved land, this property offers easy access to the Okemo Ski Area and hundreds of acres of undeveloped land for year-round outdoor enjoyment.

$650,000 +/- 30 acres
$750,000 +/- 47 acres (includes a subdividable 17-acre parcel with a 2-acre building envelope)

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Educate your eye with our slideshows. Just posted: Candlestands.

Visit the Learning Center to read about early English oak, caring for antiques, and the state of the antiques trade.

Browse the back issues of Acorns, our newsletter for lovers of early English oak.

Order a copy of Living with Early Oak, described by Wendell Garrett as "Imaginatively crafted, generously illustrated, and deeply probing, ... in every sense a pioneering work" or Yours Sincerely, a delightful collection of John's essays on antiques and country life.