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Message:: [QUOTE="Psittac, post: 3649544, member: 3881"]We have a lot of stuff that we need to sell but want to make sure it goes to a good home and of course that we're getting what it's worth.  I know that the antique market is nothing like what it was a couple decades ago but it was my grandparents life work.  In the case of the silverware we don't want to sell for scrap because if it's worth more we'd like to make that and also because if any of it has value beyond it's silver content it would be a shame to have it melted down.  I know it's a faux pas to ask people here to give us an idea of what something is worth so I'm just trying to gather information so that I am informed when the time comes.  We would like to keep it all but don't have the room and honestly don't think we're up to taking care of it properly, IE: I'm 40 and a couple hundred year old chest would just get beat up at my house. We just need to find the best way to find the right buyer and we need to be informed when that time comes.  In the mean time I get a kick out of all of this behind the scenes work, taking pictures and learning about it but I don't have much time to do it.  Maybe when my dad retires or when I retire we can go head on into it.  This is all information that will be used years in the future when the time comes.  My dad just doesn't want this to become an inherited burden on his grandson.[/QUOTE]