POSH ESTATE SALES

The grandparents had died and the family found this incredible Hudson Valley Original Oil Painting. The family didn't really like it and considered selling it to a neighbor who had admired it for years and offered the family $ 250.00. Instead they decided to contact a licensed and certified art appraiser who valued it at $ 7,500.00. It went to auction in New York and fetched more than that even wi

A woman and her brother were left a few items from their grandparents. The woman got a large, very dirty binder full of old stamps and the brother got a Steinway piano. We recommended an expert to valuate the stamps. The appraiser estimated that because of the rarity of a few of the stamps, the total collection was worth over $ 53,000.00! 

Her brother’s piano was estimated to be worth $ 9,800.00.

 An estate sale had a collection of Civil War swords, and Calvary and dragoon sabers. Of course, we knew nothing about this so again we contacted the best licensed and fully certified person for the job. As a result, many had plaques with names, rank and regiment and these were worth the most and the total collection in 2015 was valued at over $35,000.00 for 6 swords.

A woman who was moving, had a very large military trunk that she wanted to sell. We opened the trunk and found it full of cameras, slides of bombings, and notebooks. She said that her father was in the Army Air Force during World War II and in the Eighth Air Force and was the navigator of the 11th heavy bomber to enter French air space in the Normandy invasion on D-Day. An appraiser valued it as "

A family had a very old rustic rocking chair with a worn seat. The odd part is that one of the rockers was much shorter on one side. I found out that this rocking chair had been made for a man with only one leg. After further research, it was found that a 16-year old Confederate Army son from this family had lost his leg in combat. Someone made the chair to make it easier for the boy to rock. That