Success Stories
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 813-244-4160 or email us 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.
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 This Pro Hart painting sold for $1,900 at Davidson Auctions in Annadale Australia for a Downsizing Advisory Service client. |
 This Ray Crooke painting sold for $2,400 at Davidson Auctions in Annadale Australia for a Downsizing Advisory Service client. |
 This rare Thomas L. Hunt painting sold for $35,000 for a client. She thought it was worth maybe $300 to $400. |
 Sold for a client at a major national auction company specializing in oriental items, a pair of jade bracelets for $5,750. |
 Platinum and Diamond bracelet we sold for a client at an auction in New York for $9,000. |
 Don't go selling off your sterling silver flatware pieces to scrap buyers for silver weight. It's the rare serving pieces that are worth all the money. Just sold this Gorham buttercup sterling pie knife for a client for $229.16 in auction. |
 Sold for a client at auction Spanish Ruiz Vernacci gilded wall art piece $5,250 |
 This is a Tiffany & Co sterling hammered flask with a seahorse and on the back it is acid etched "WS Xmas 1893". It recently sold at auction for $4,000. |
 Sold a 1923 Gibson L 3 Guitar for a client from Sebring for $960. She thought the guitar case was empty! |
 Just sold this North Carolina Ben Owens pottery vase at Leland Little auction house located in North Carolina for one of my clients for $550. Selling in the right market assures your client maximizes the revenue from their belongings. |
 The condition was not so great but we did sell this Thomas Jefferson signed document for a client for $1,900 at an auction in Dallas TX. |
 A photo of the Pretty Boy Floyd shoelace that I have up for sale on May 21st at an auction in Dallas TX. Sold for $600! |
 Seabiscut Presentation Watch - inscribed: To Georgie Wolf from C.S. Howard and Seabiscuit. Historic Watch from the owner of Seabiscuit to the jockey. Sold for client at auction for $6,500 |
 1926 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals signed team ball sold at auction for a client for $12,658 |
 PAIR OF 19th C PATINATED FIGURAL BRONZE CHERUBS sold at auction for a client for $5,500 |
 Rare 1911 era Mechanical Postcard (the arm moves) illustrated by Ellen Clapsaddle. Sold for $182.49 |
 1850’s era whole plate Daguerreotype photograph family portrait. Sold for a Downsizing Advisory Service client for $2,125. |
 1960’s English Modernist Pottery vase Troika Cornwall pottery face vase by designer Marilyn Pascoe sold at auction for a client for $510.00 |
 Rare English Poole Pottery incised pottery vase by designer Tony Morris sold for a client for $760.00 |
 1909 L & N Railroad brass, weighted table lamp made by Pullman corporation sold for $455.00 for one of our clients. |
 This rare Lalique Houbigant La Belle Saison Perfume bottle and case sold for $3,383 for one of our clients. |
 This is a rare 1920-30’s micro-beaded purse which sold at auction 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 client. |
 Downsizing Advisory Service sold this rare Raytheon T-100-5 plastic transistor radio at auction for one of our clients for a phenomenal $520. |
 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. |
 Charles Camion painting sold at Christie's in New York for a Downsizing Advisory Service client for $28,000. |
 Cartier Rose Quartz travel clock with key and case. Circa 1929 Lovely little clock with Japanese corners, each corner accented with a pointed cabochon sapphire. Mother of pearl face, in good condition marked Cartier and France. It is even missing the handle. At auction it sold for $7,500. |
 Paul Evans "Crown of Thorns" cocktail table. Pointy black painted and gilt metal ''thorns'' support 1/2'' thick glass. Our downsizing client consigned this, never realizing it would sell for anywhere near the $4,750 it achieved at auction. |
 Abel George Warshawsky (American, 1883-1962): Painting Sold for $21,000 in May 2005 for a client’s estate. '' Garden Of Tuileries '', winter scene with figures, O/C, 26'' x 32.'' This was the second highest sale ever of a Warshawsky painting. And our client received over $14,000! |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Civil War era Union Officer’s presentation sword inscribed. Presented to Lieut.Volney V Smith by company 1st Mounted Rifles as a token of their esteem Aug. 27th, 1862. Sold at auction for $4,575 for a Downsizing Advisory Service client who did not even know this was a Civil War sword. |
 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 |
 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. |
 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. |
 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 at auction for a grand total of $469. |
 The Downsizing Advisory Service recently sold this Marblehead Pottery vase for the estate at an auction in New Jersey for $1,300. |
 This is an 1880 Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Oyster Plate, by Haviland Limoges. Our client allowed us to help them sell this beautiful plate at an auction. We sold it for $1,425. |
 These are two unique Victorian napkin holders. Downsizing Advisory Service sold them at an auction for our client. The cat napkin holder sold for $140 and the giraffe napkin holder sold for $820. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Prussian Hussar WWI Death Head Totenkopf Helmet Plates that sold for $1,686 |
 Prussian WWI Hussar Officer's helmet and parts that sold for $1,210 |
 Jens Quistgaard designed Lovig Dansk teak desk that sold for $1,900 |
 Chippendale carved mahogany side chair: Carved backsplat, garcons edging on the skirt, carved knees on the cabriole legs ending in ball and claw feet. Split seat covered in a petit and needlepoint tapestry. All peg construction. 39'' h. x 22 1/2 x 18''. $4,000 |
 You never know what you will find. Guardian had a ward and needed to clean out home. This very ugly Guido Gambone Italian pottery vase looked like something you would give away to Goodwill. It still had an old Maas Brothers department store sticker with a price tag of $29.99. It sold to a buyer in Italy for $2,012. |
 Another great little find. 1880's Victorian trading card scrap book which we sold for our client for $547.77 in auction. They didn't think it was worth $100. |
 The rabbit netsuke pictured here did $2,250 at auction |
 Another great sale for a client. Sold! - Eugene Remy Maes Belgian painting of sheep and chickens in a barn for $5,500 at auction. |
 Part of a collection of Ivory netsukes I sold for a client at auction for over $20,000. The snake netsuke in this photo did $2,750 |
 Sold this Japanese wooden abalone shell inlaid oil lamp for a client for $450 in California. |
 Client thought this watercolor by Paul de Longpre was a print. He was going to sell it in his estate moving sale. We sold it at a major auction house for the client for $8,000. |
 Just sold this Neoclassical style silver plated mirrored plateau for a cleint for $4,500 at a major auction house. |