PREPARING YOUR ITEMS
What We Buy
There is no fee and no limit to the quantity of items you can bring in for evaluation by our buyers!
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Any Gold Items including scrap, broken pieces and dental gold.
Gold Jewelry
Gold compacts, purses, lighters, lorgnettes, etc.
Gold Coins, bars, bullion
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ANY item that is silver (including coin silver, sterling, German, Persian and Asian).
Silver Jewelry (old & new)
Sterling Silver flatware, tea & coffee sets, serving trays, candle sticks (NO NEED TO POLISH)
Mexican & Native American Silver
Bullion, Ingots, Coins
NO SILVER PLATED ITEMS (If unsure we can verify for you in person)
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Genuine jewelry items of any age, condition that are Gold, Platinum or Silver including: new, modern, vintage, antique, estate & heirloom quality, designer pieces (necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches, pendants, rings and more)
Icon & Master Artisan Designer brands signed pieces such as: Tiffany, Cartier, Bvlgari, Hermes, Webb, Van Cleef & Arpel (VCA), Boucheron, Elsa Peretti, Schlumberger, Mikimoto, Buccellati, Jensen, Spratling, Hector Aguilar, Antonio Peneda, Los Castillo, Fred Davis and more!
Large Precious Stones: Diamonds, Rubies, Sapphires, and Emeralds, certified (if loose) or set in fine jewelry.
Silver Jewelry including signed & unsigned Mexican & Native American Indian pieces, Taxco, etc.
NO Costume (imitation) jewelry. *If you are not sure what you have, bring it in for us to check if it is real.
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Mens & Ladies, Old & New
Luxury Wrist Watches: Rolex, Patek Philippe, Cartier, Piaget, IWC, Vacheron, Audemars, Breguet, Corum, Omega, Hermes, Gucci and more.
Mid-range Wrist Watches: Breitling, Tudor, Longines, Baume & Mercier, Girard Perregaux, Mathey Tissot, Tag Heuer, and more.
Vintage Wrist and ALL Pocket Watches: Gruen, Curvex, Hamilton, Elgin, Illinois, Railroad and more (gold, gold-filled, and silver)
Specialty Watches: Concealed “secret” watches (in brooches, bracelets, rings and pendants), Coin watches, Watches with precious & semi-precious stones, Enameled watches, Doctors, Military and Diver.
Characters & Collectible: Mickey Mouse (pre 1970), Casio Watch (pre-1985), Gold Timex
Small Desk Clocks, Enamel clocks, 8-day clocks, Carriage clocks. No large clocks, NO wooden mantel/wall clocks, NO grandfather or grandmother clocks.
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Old coin collections and/or individual coins, slabbed and loose Including: gold, silver, copper, certified or not. (PLEASE DO NOT CLEAN) No collection is too big for us to evaluate!
Pre-1964 silver dollars, half-dollars, quarters and dimes
Foreign Coins generally limited to silver & gold.
Franklin Mint sets
Old Paper Money (U.S. Currency) Large size and small size.
No hoards of wheat pennies, but books are fine to examine.
Select ancient coins
Not sure what you have? That’s ok, bring them in and we will evaluate them in person, so you know what you have.
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Valuable signed paintings by a notable artist, California and Southwestern (outdoor scenes, western views preferred).
Artist Ex: Joseph Sharpe, E.I. Couse, Wm Wendt, Ed Mel, Maynard Dixon, Burt Phillips, Edgar Payne, Herbert Herzog, Sheldon Gile, Granville Redmond,Eleanor Colburn, Donna Schuster, and Gustav Bauman (to name a few).
Please note-we do not have a market for unsigned, decorative paintings, but we are able to review them through photos.
Lithographs and Serigraphs are generally not desirable items on the secondary market. There are a few exceptions-please call to inquire.
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Pre-1935 Antique Native American Pottery, Baskets, Fine woven Rugs, Kachinas, Totems.
Southwest & Northwest Coast Tribes
Native American Jewelry, Indian Pawn, Signed and un-signed
*No Pre-Columbian artifacts, No Eagle feathers.
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Signed Antique Tiffany Lamps (NO reproductions)
Handel Reverse-painted Lamps
Pottery by these famous makers ONLY: Guido Gamboni, Picasso, Rookwood, Grubby,
Art Glass by Tiffany & Emile Galle (vase, candlesticks, etc.)
*NO brass, porcelain, glass or generalized ‘old’ lamps, vases or sconces.
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Historically significant and rare documents (e.g. presidential letters, important records)
Rare autographs pre-1990 by famous leaders, political figures, captains of industry, investors, explorers, (I.e. Ford, Disney, Edison, Mozart, Lincoln), vintage sports figures, classic old Hollywood celebrities (i.e. Monroe, Elvis, Dean, Hendrix)
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Early uniforms, badges, helmets
WW II and earlier bayonets, daggers, swords, antique rifles, shotguns and hand guns
War memorabilia
Antique US Flags
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Pre- 1950s Era Advertising Signs & Memorabilia for Alcohol, Tobacco, Soda, Gas Station, Automobile themes (metal, wooden & neon)
Antique advertising trays, thermometers, related ephemera and more.
Early Posters: Hollywood movie, music venue and theater posters (US and European).
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Lighters (gold)
Pens: Fountain & Ball Point (Mont Blanc, Waterman, Parker, Conklin, Dunhill, Sheaffer)
Pre-1975 Baseball Cards
Pre-1970 Comics
Rare Antique Books: 1st edition in good condition only
Antique Mechanical Banks
Pre-1950 Mechanical Toys
Pre-1990 Sports Trading Cards
Pokemon
We Don’t Buy:
Silver Plated Items (if unsure we can verify in person)
Generalized Miscellaneous Antiques
Furniture
China/Dinnerware/Dishes
Figurines (Lladro, Hummels, Royal Doulton, etc.)
Glass Items (goblets, pitchers, etc.)
Asian Art & Antiques (except jewelry)
Post 1940’s non-mechanical toys
Dolls
Ivory (illegal)
Fur Coats
Grandfather clocks, wall clocks, wooden mantel clocks (we DO buy small enamel and carriage clocks-call to inquire!)
At certain events, we bring featured guest buyers Adam Anapolsky (left) and Brian Witherell (right) who specialize in Civil War items, antique weapons & firearms, vintage advertising items (including beer and petroliana), historic memorabilia, western Americana, pre-1960’s sports memorabilia, trading cards & comics, and designer goods.
To find out if Adam and/or Brian will be at an event near you, please reference the event mailer you received or give us a call at (760) 783-5483 and we are happy to assist.