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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeaGoat, post: 265438, member: 1136&quot;]I am SO excited for the next couple months of my life I can hardly contain myself <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday I responded to a CL ad that stated a man bought a house and all its contents from an estate and he was looking to sell the contents in bulk. The owners were antique dealers and had moved all their inventory to their house with 3 out buildings in years past. </p><p><br /></p><p>Needing a good many things for my booth and to send to auction I contacted him asking for pictures and if he would be available that day. </p><p><br /></p><p>He sent me a dark picture of a room stuffed with stuff and said there&#039;s 2 more rooms like this and 3 out buildings. </p><p>A couple of items in the pictures looked interesting but it was so dark I couldn&#039;t tell much..</p><p>So I asked my boss&#039; parents if they wanted to go with me and buy some stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>We head up there to meet the guy at a location so we could follow him to the house.</p><p>He gets out of the car and introduced himself. He asks if we are knowledgeable in the business and if we could please just help him out with letting him know what he&#039;s got, how much stuff is worth, and ultimately buy stuff.</p><p>You could tell he was overwhelmed and at a loss.</p><p>We told him we were in the antique business and run an Antique auction/estate company and wed help him with what we could. </p><p><br /></p><p>He bought the house sight unseen to fix up and move in with him family and needs the stuff gone asap.</p><p><br /></p><p>We get to the house start walking around and our jaws are literally on the floor. </p><p>Within 2 minutes we knew there was no way we could buy it out, none.</p><p><br /></p><p>We called my boss, who lives nearly 2 hrs from there and told him he needed to get there now. He had appointments all day due to him leaving on vacation that night but we insisted, telling him forget them, get here now.</p><p>Once I started sending him pictures he jumped up, brushed his teeth, and ran out the door.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yall...</p><p>This estate, this poor guy...</p><p>Its SLAMMED!</p><p>You can not even get fully into rooms.</p><p>Its not 3 rooms of stuff, its 6, and the outbuildings...</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /></p><p>You cannot even get fully into two of them because the stuff is so stacked&nbsp; and piled up (one of them is a 43&#039; shipping container)</p><p>Then there is a trailer that&#039;s so packed you can&#039;t even step on the edge to look in!</p><p>He said the front half of it is slammed with old paintings.</p><p>He said when he finally got to see the house for the first time he wanted to rent a dumpster and chunk it all <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>We told him not to even throw any kind of paperwork away! </p><p>(There is paperwork in a drawer authenticating a leather carrying bag owned by Robert E Lee. Where the bag is, probably scattered in a room among other items. I can&#039;t remember what type of bag, it was a word I&#039;ve never heard, started with a p and sounded like passiel, paisgle) </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s everything from an array of nautical items, Native American arrow heads,&nbsp; tomahawks, head dresses, blankets, rugs, possibly civil war drums and flutes, antique duck and geese decoys, antique weathervanes, antique pottery, huge brass cash registers from the late 1800s, telescopes, antique scales of all kinds, coins, an album of confederate money, architectural pieces, signs/advertising, and so so so so much more... and we can&#039;t even get to/see half of it yet <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Trunks we cant reach or that are buried, full off stuff..</p><p>Drawers full of stuff, good stuff!</p><p>I&#039;m so honored and excited to be able to dig, sort, catalogue, and help these items find good homes, and to be able share it with yall!</p><p><br /></p><p>Just from what we&#039;ve seen (power is completely out in one side of the house) my boss told him due to the nature and type of items he has theyd do better at auction vs tag pricing and gave him an auction estimate between 30k-50k.</p><p>He told him there is no way we could do an estate sale due to injury liabilities, plus with the amount of valuable smalls that can slip into pockets, theft would be a HUGE problem (plus there is no way to adequately set up everything there. Stuff is piled up on the floor, tables, couches, furniture, beds, walls...)</p><p><br /></p><p>So, over the next couple months I&#039;m going to need all y&#039;alls expertise! There are going to be items we have no idea about because there are items that already have us scratching our heads, lol</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But for now Id like help with ships lanterns. </p><p>They have dozens ranging in size from 2 palms held together to several hundred lbs leaving you wondering how two elderly people got those things in there, lol</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be getting pictures in a few days when we go to revisit and pull a few things for an up coming online auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>How do you tell if a ships lantern is a true antique or if its vintage or a reproduction?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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