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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Sippican is the original name of the town of Marion, home of Sippican Cottage Furniture. Sippican was an Indian name, translating roughly, if memory serves, as " mosquitoes, mosquitoes, mosquitoes, and someday, fine furniture."
We're an Internet-based business, so we don't have a showroom. But you can head on over to Wrentham Antiques Marketplace on Route 1A in Wrentham Massachusetts to see a wide selection of our furniture, along with thousands of other antiques and antique reproductions they have on display there. Or visit The Old Company Store in Wareham, Massachusetts to see a our smaller items displayed there too.
It's in Southcoast Massachusetts, (that's not the South Shore, Lovie, the Southcoast. South Shore is Cohasset and Duxbury and Scituate and several other towns no-one but the people who can afford to live in, can afford to live in.) Southcoast is the patch of trees, fleas, disease and cranberry bogs on the western shore of Buzzards Bay. Where the debris meets the sea, as they say. Marion is famous for good sailing and, ahem, great furniture.
No, we can't afford them, so it's made right here in Southcoast Massachusetts. By hand. For you.
The owner (see About Us), with a little help.
Items are shipped regular old DHL ground. It takes a week or less to get to most any location in the lower 48 states. A few items are too big for regular package service delivery but we'll crate them and send them to you by common carrier. If you want a Ma Barker's Kitchen Table or a Grandma Barker Table, or a Sinead O'Leary's Bench, e-mail or call and we'll determine shipping based on your zip code. If you live within a three hour radius of New Bedford, We'll deliver it to you in the company truck.
That depends. We don't have a big warehouse filled with everything, it's true. Your furniture is made to order by hand by real people. But then again, we're not like other furniture companies, with waiting lists even for standard items stretching into many months. In general, anything standard ordered from the catalog will be out the door in three to four weeks. She's going as fast as she can, Captain Kirk. Call or e-mail if you have questions.
Well, if you like them, I did. If you think they're stupid, I ... um... found them. They're all copyrighted, by the way, like everything on the site, and if you want to reprint them, (that means you liked them so we're back to I wrote them,) you should contact us and we'll talk to you about it. And if you link to our site, be a dear and let us know.
Just e-mail us at info **at** sippicancottage.com or call us at 508-748-6604 and talk to us; we're pleasant. Savvy internet users know that you put an @ in the e-mail address where it says **at** or it doesn't work.
Well, yes. But that's a funny question. They're safe for everybody. By the way, you didn't hear this from me, but I hear from reliable sources that all my competitors are secretly painting their furniture with Strontium 90 isotopes, with a lead and mercury overglaze. Play it safe, buy Sippican.
Sure. We're proud of the furniture and confident it's made sturdily, or we wouldn't let it out the door. We guarantee the stuff against defects in material and workmanship for one year after you receive it. And since we are selling on the Internet, if you get the thing and decide it isn't what you bargained for, send it back to us for a refund or exchange of the purchase price. And let's face it, when you buy stuff, and it arrives falling apart, it's usually because it was mangled during shipping. You didn't hear this from me, but I have it on good authority that DHL personnel have attended special seminars on how to identify Sippican Cottage Packages, then don white gloves, and carry them to your home on a velvet tuffet, with a helper walking alongside carrying a parasol over it to shield it from the elements. I've also heard they don't particularly care for my competitors, and put road kill inside their packages, and reseal them. But just in case, I insure the shipments, and if they're damaged in shipping, we're all covered. But listen, if you set your house on fire, and a fireman smacks your Kipling Table with an axe, and you drag it behind your car to the motel, which is infested with rabid termites, and that's where you have to stay in until your house is rebuilt, don't come crying to me.
I kid around here and try to make you smile when you visit, but we're very serious about what we're doing. I put every ounce of talent, effort, and wisdom I can muster into these things, and want to help you transform your home and enrich your lives. I try not to take myself seriously, and try to amuse you while sharing what I learned about the furnishings, people, places, and the life and times of both ordinary and extraordinary, real and imaginary people from history and today. The furniture is a labor of love for me, just as furnishing your home is a labor of love for you. I see no reason why we all can't have some fun doing it. |
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