Florida Antique Appraiser Estate Sale Auctions Senior Moving Downsizing Services Success Stories

Success Stories

This is a rare 1920-30’s micro-beaded purse which sold on Ebay®

for $1,702.00 for a Downsizing Advisory Service client.

FLIGHT BARR & BARR WORCESTER SOFT PASTE DESSERT SET:

14 hand painted pieces, horse in the center below a

''Festina Lente'' banner (make haste slowly).

The set includes 6 plates, 9 3/4'' diameter

6 soup bowls, 7 3/4'' diameter

an oblong serving plate, 12'' diameter

a square serving plate, 9 1/4''

Circa 1783-1840.

Sold for $2,800 at auction

These two Automobile Dealer Promotional cars sold for a phenomenal

$1,564.99!

In the 50’s and 60’s the auto manufacturers would supply their dealers with plastic scale models of each year’s new vehicles. The dealerships would give them to their salespeople or to the buyers of their cars. The 1964 Corvette on the left sold for $769.99, the white 1961 Corvette sold for $795.00

Downsizing Advisory Service is able to discover the unrealized potential of seemingly average items and get them sold in the right auction market to maximum the dollars for their clients.

Downsizing Advisory Service sold this rare Raytheon T-100-5 plastic transistor radio over Ebay® for one of our clients for a phenomenal $520.

Sold for a Downsizing Advisory Service client

Cranberry glass lamp and shade

Sold for a Phenomenal $7,500

BITTER, Ary Jean Leon, (French, 1883-1973): Elephant Bookends, Bronze/Ivory, affixed to original matching burled wood stands with minor wear, affixed original plaque.

Sold for a Downsizing Advisory Service client for $7,750.

Sold for a Downsizing Advisory Service client for $10,000. John Anthony Park, (British, 1880-1962): ''St Servan Near St Malo'', Oil/B, 13'' x 16'', signed, gilded gesso frame, 18'' x 21'', titled verso

Another Downsizing Advisory Service Success. Sold for a DAS client at Skinners, Inc., in Boston. Jose Formoso Reyes Nantucket purse or basket. Auction estimate was $1,000 to $1,500. Sold for a phenomenal $2,800. It is the unfamiliar items such as this that so many people just throw away without realizing that is worth a great deal of money.

The Downsizing Advisory Service recently sold this Marblehead Pottery vase for the estate at an auction in New Jersey for $1,300.

Sold on Ebay® three antique fishing lures for a client. The top one a Creek Chub Gar Minnow Lure sold for $237.50. The lure on the bottom left, A Creek Chub Jigger Lure sold for $139 and the one on the bottom right, a Shakespeare Tantalizer Ca. 1932 sold for $77.50. Three lures sold for a total of $454.

There’s real money in those old tackle boxes!!

This Gorham Sterling Repousse water pitcher ca. 1888, sold for $1,000. The owner was going to take it along with other sterling items down to the local flea market and sell them for $5 or $10 each.

This is an 1880 Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Oyster Plate, by Haviland Limoges. Our client allowed us to help them sell this beautiful plate on Ebay®. We sold it for $1,425, with our client receiving $1,032.

A dealer from a fancy antique mall offered a woman who was there to close out her father’s estate, $350 for this French cabinet. The Downsizing Advisory Service liquidated it at auction for a phenomenal $9,750. After commissions and auction fees the lady gets back $6,815.

Our client needed to downsize their belongings to move into a smaller home. They pointed out many interesting valuables throughout their house. When asked if they had anything on their porch, they said there was nothing of value on the porch. This Roseville Donatello pattern jardinière stand was sitting on the porch. At auction it sold for $650. They received back $445 after commissions.

This pair of 23 jewel Illinois watches were sold for a client by The Downsizing Advisory Service. We placed them at an auction in June, where they sold for $1,200. After commissions and auction fees, our client received a check for $890.

These are two unique Victorian napkin holders. Downsizing Advisory Service sold them on Ebay for our client. The cat napkin holder sold for $140 and the giraffe napkin holder sold for $820. Our client received $686 after commissions.

These are beautiful Federal Style Inlaid Mahogany Side Chairs. An antique dealer had offered a client of ours $35 each, totaling to $210 for them all. But our client decided to try us first. When is was placed at auction by the Downsizing Advisory Service, they sold for $1,700. Our client received $1265 after commissions.

The metal stand perfume bottle and atomizer were stored away in a box that our client was going to give to a charity thrift store. He had bought them for his wife in the early 1930’s from a jewelry store and now that she had passed away he no longer had any use for them.

They were unmarked, however we felt the best place to reach the true perfume collector was through Ebay. Turns out they were a very rare DeVilbiss chromed, black glass, atomizer and dauber perfume bottle set. They sold for a phenomenal $2,144. After commissions our client received $1,560!

Before you, your client, or future resident liquidates and moves, please call Downsizing Advisory Service. We will come to the home and identify the items that can be liquidated to put more money back into their pocket.

Don't let the pros in the antique or estate sale business take advantage of you.
Let us help you get more money for your precious belongings.

The Downsizing Advisory Service also conducts Downsizing seminars for prospective residents or community groups.
Call 727-389-2623 to schedule this fun and informational seminar.

The Downsizing Advisory Service never buys your valuables or antiques!
We are simply a liquidation service whose goal is to return as much money as possible back to our clients.

	One of 13 Korean War era U.S. propaganda leaflets and orders which were sold for a Downsizing Advisory Service client. The 13 leaflets sold individually over Ebay® for a grand total of $469. Even paper items can be valuable!