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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 9817561, member: 10944&quot;]Like John said you’ll want to pay specific attention to all of the silver ones. Its likely those will be the most valuable. I would separate the silver ones from the glass ones altogether. Making sure to keep the correct glass liners with the correct silver cellars. May be worth putting stickers on them to make sure the right ones stay together if they are going to be boxed up at some point. I’d recommend searching for salt cellars on eBay. Filter for “sold” listings and then sort by “highest price” and scroll. This will be a great primer in what salt cellars sell for good money. Then you can do the same for the ones that are listed for sale currently, not sold. Those prices may not be realistic, the sold ones are realistic. However it will give you a good idea of what’s desirable and what’s not in general. Then you can make sure the good ones your mother had are separated from the common ones. In general silver salts are best. After that anything figural (in the shape of an animal or object) is good, hand blown glass cellars, favrille, opalescent, or uranium glass pieces are good, any made of shells may be good. Some of the more basic glass ones can be valuable depending on pattern but you’d need help on those. I’d fear that if they went to a local auction house they’d be sold in a job lot/box lot without any further research being done. That would be great for a buyer who would pick them up cheap and resell them or add to their collection but bad for you/the estate. I’d do a bunch of googling for “salt cellar auction” or something like that and see if there is an auction house out there that seems to be particularly good in that area. Since they are so small it would be easy to pack them and send a box to an appropriate auctioneer rather than just the local ma &amp; pa box lot type country auction place. If you post clear photos here a few at a time I bet folks would help you ID each piece. Are there no members here that sell on consignment? I know generally $ is avoided here but in situations like this I wonder if there is a good mutually beneficial way to connect people?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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