Items That Sell

We are often asked what are good items to sell. The following are examples of items that seem to sell well.

  • Advertising
  • Ammunition
  • Antiques
  • Architectural Salvage
  • ATVs
  • Audio (Good Quality)
  • Autographs
  • Automobile Items such as old car manuals or car parts such as shift knobs
  • Barntiques
  • Beer Items (Breweriana)
  • Boats
  • Books, if hard-covered and desirable. For example: WWII or Guns.
  • Bow: Long, cross, and compound
  • Canoes
  • Cars
  • Cast Iron Items
  • Clocks, Vintage
  • Coins
  • Collectibles
  • Crocks
  • Decoys
  • Ephemera
  • Equipment
  • Fishing
  • Furniture, Good Newer
  • Gasoline Powered Items
  • Gasoline Items
  • Gold and Silver
  • Guns
  • Hunting
  • Jewelry
  • Kayaks
  • Lawn Mowers
  • Mantiques
  • Military Items
  • Motorcycles
  • Motors, Outboard
  • Musical Instruments
  • Pottery
  • Primitives
  • Records, Classic Rock and Country (70s, 80s)
  • Records
  • Signs
  • Snowblowers
  • Snowmobiles
  • Stoneware, Name-brand
  • Tools, Power
  • Tools
  • Toys, Vintage
  • Trucks
  • Wrought Iron Items
  • WWI
  • WWII

Items That Do Not Sell

These items generally do not sell well. That is not to say they don’t sell at all. Rather it means that there is little consignment value in them. If you see any of these at our auctions, it is probably because we have agreed to do an entire estate auction and sell everything for our client. If so, we will usually put many of these low-value items in a group and sell them as a “box lot”. They will not be individually photographed or described.

  • Appliances, Kitchen
  • Appliances, Large
  • Appliances, Used
  • Artificial flowers and arrangements
  • Blankets (unless special like a Hudson's Bay blanket)
  • Books such as Text Books, Reader's Digest, Encyclopedias, and Books in Poor Condition. (Some coffee table books are still good)
  • Bowling Balls
  • Ceramic vases, bowls, and figurines (unless very old)
  • Chemicals
  • Christmas Decorations (unless very old)
  • Christmas Trees (artificial)
  • Cleaning Supplies
  • Clocks (unless vintage)
  • Clothing (unless vintage, collectible, or high end)
  • Collector plates of all kinds
  • Computer Desks
  • Computers, Desktop
  • Consoles (such as old stereo cabinets)
  • Cookie Jars (unless old or by a collectible maker)
  • Crutches
  • Dinner and Drink Ware
  • Dolls, Unless Old and/or Porcelain
  • Electronics with missing parts or that do not work
  • Entertainment Centers
  • Exercise Equipment
  • Fax Machines
  • Fruit Jars, Clear
  • Furniture (damaged, particleboard, or upholstered)
  • Fur coats
  • Garage Sale Items
  • Glassware including pressed glass and clear glassware
  • Housewares
  • Ice Skates
  • Ironing Boards
  • Lamps, Unless Unique or Antique
  • Luggage (unless high end or newer)
  • Magazines
  • Mattresses, Used
  • Meat grinders
  • Mirrors (unless unique)
  • National Geographic Magazines
  • Oil lamps (unless unique)
  • Paint
  • Pictures frames
  • Playboy magazine and the like
  • Pots and Pans
  • Printers
  • Records, Pre-Rock and Roll, Polkas, Lawrence Welk
  • Shower chairs
  • Tins
  • Tires, Used
  • Towels
  • Treadmills
  • TVs (unless they are LCD, LED, or plasma)
  • Vacuums
  • VHS Tapes
  • Walkers
  • Wall art (unless original or signed and numbered by a known artist)
  • Wooden chairs and highchairs