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Are you tired of trying to figure out how much your things are really worth?
Have you combed through countless flea markets? Waited in more estate sale lines than you care to admit and still end up clueless about how much your Civil War mementos are worth?
Overpriced shops, outdated price guides and pie-in-the-sky appraisals don't seem to be the answer?
If you're looking for simple, straightforward talk and actual prices you've come to the right place. The answer, I say, lies in auction sale results, and you'll find them here.
For the last 18 years I've been covering the live auction market for newspapers and magazines around the United States and Canada.
The power of buying and selling at auction is really very simple.
When the bidding stops and the hammer falls, the value of an item is set. The buyer, not the seller, sets the price. This simple distinction cuts through all the chitchat about what art, antiques and collectibles are really worth.
In the end you may not bat a thousand, but, you'll come away with a solid sense of what things are worth in the marketplace.
The emphasis here is on today’s values. Not yesterday’s wishful thinking.
I’m also a storyteller.
I track the live auction market worldwide and bring readers stories behind things that sell. I write about people who’ve inspired, entertained and led us throughout history and objects that touched their lives.
It could be Harry Houdini, Bob Dylan, Truman Capote, Amelia Earhart, Babe Ruth or William Randolph Hearst. I tell their stories through the handcuffs they've owned, books they’ve written, songs they’ve sung, planes they've flown, empires they’ve built and homeruns they’ve hit—all of which sold on the block.
You'll find a collection of my archived columns on this site that appeared in publications worldwide over the last 18 years.
Plus, nuts-and-bolts collecting information from 130 auction houses. Over 800 articles available to readers.
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