Estate Sale Tricks & Tips! | How to Turn Antiques & Vintage into Cash
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- Come with me to our estate sale this week in Tampa, Florida! Still in the original family, this 1959 house owned by an artistic lady is full of antique and vintage items of all sorts, from art and porcelain to costume jewelry, handsome mahogany and oak, elegant glass and a lot of fun surprises.
We get to preview the sale together, and talk about important tips and tricks of the estate sale trade. Then we’ll show the progress we make in clearing the house day-by-day, and even reveal our sales total for the weekend!
Bristol glass? Charlotte Byj? Shield mirrors? The great thing about a 60 year accumulation is the great variety of vintage goods and antique heirlooms we get to discover and learn more about as we prepare to send them off to new collectors. We’ll find out who Bijan the sculptor was, compare newer and older bird cages and learn about a Gibson Girl who went from model to sideshow attraction after a terrible scandal that captivated people in 1906.
For people wanting to hold (or hire someone) to do their own estate sale, this video is full of tidbits we use to make our sales work. How you display, where you advertise and what you do to keep people coming back and buying more makes all the difference, and the pointers we’ve learned over years of experience bear fruit in a nice pile of cash as we make this lifetime of antique collecting and artistry disappear into new collections.
Here's some more of what we'll find along the way in this video:
Fostoria glass, Hepplewhite and mahogany cabinets, vintage chickens, Duncan-Phyfe dining set, vintage kitchen, studio pottery, hand painted porcelain, Limoges, Belleek, Bing & Grondahl, paper ephemera, costume jewelry, perfume bottles, modern art, vintage mottos and prints, bird cage, marble MCM side tables, oak sideboard, cherry dressers, shaving mirror, framed painted tiles, Adams Calyx ware, cast iron, Monmouth pitcher, 1970s glassware, Waterford crystal, chandeliers, wall oven, Majolica plate, mustard pot, fish sets, silver plate, game table, parlor chairs, children's books, vintage Christmas, brass bed, boudoir boxes, etc.
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The tankard at 3:50 seems to be North Star Red Wing Soneware Grape Pitcher... probably from the neginning of the 20th c.
Oh, thank you! I'll have to pin this since I misidentified as Monmouth
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DRINK everytime he says "lady of the house" lol. I'm just playing... I loved watching this!! Makes me want to do an estate sale lol. Edit 23:25 LOL.. I'm having too much fun.. "by.... the woman who lived here".. You were like I gotta stop saying "lady of the house".
Lol yes! This was longer than my usual video and that would be an excellent drinking game! My other used too often word is "actually". You were the inspiration to show more estate sale stuff so thank you!
I love it! I'm going to start referring to myself as "Lady of the House" and I will have my family refer to me as such. Toodle-oo. *pinkies up
I am continually in awe of your extensive knowledge, George! So fascinating! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you! Keep watching and I'll tell you all I can so you'll know too
George, always enjoy these estate sales and thanks for giving us the background of previous owner! Lots of stories to tell and plenty of her painted porcelain pieces! 😃👍
You bet! I figure we get to bring this person 'back to life' one last time and celebrate their collections
Great job George on your sale! It's nice to see you price the items fairly. It seems like here in southern California a lot of estate sellers are selling at retail!
My mother had Haviland, but we were never allowed to touch and once she was gone, no one wanted it. It,s so true, to let it be enjoyed so people care about it. Love listening to you. So smart,so knowledgeable.
Absolutely right moms could make the fancy stuff scary
My word you are so knowledgeable.. I'm in awe. You've inspired me to know more. Thank you.
That makes me really happy! Knowledge is power, plus it makes collecting a lot more fun
George, thank you for another great estate sale. The lady's house was wonderful and her taste was fabulous! Thanks to you, I felt like I had travelled there!
Thanks George, I learned a lot from you about Estate selling. I believe you missed your calling as a teacher! You're just great!!!
So interesting to see the portrait of Evelyn Nesbit; Stanford White was a very famous architect - so many of his beautiful mansions and large public buildings remain today, including the Washington Square Arch in Greenwich Village. The homeowner was obviously a very talented artist. Did she paint the copy of the Girl with the Pearl Earring too? It looks like it's also very well done. I wish I had known about the sale! I have to get on the email list. Glad it went well! Thanks for another great video, I always learn so much!
She did! She was very talented and I imagine you'd have had a lot of fun at the sale. I'll look forward to doing more sales in Florida soon
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Totally wonderful...thanks ever so much. As things open up and all my responsibilities lessen....can not wait to join more..do you ever have someone buy who wants to ship furniture or is it just too hard...I need to make a storage display room and dream is that color of cases...not speaking of this time and need to map it out a bit better...thanks so very much. that was a miniature of my grandma's table that has really now been roughed up with kids and grandkids in a log house..lol...but it had it's fancy life and now it is having it's 3rd generation at granny's kitchen table life and that is cool too. You are very kind to share and educate and enjoy our chats..I used to shop at that Lafayette School house I think it came up when looking at joining rules or those 2 neat gals with channels I do no know but love seeing Portland in which your NW and cross country mix of things is so fun. so glad you did good for these people..that was a LOVELY Home...just how they had it..
Very interesting…thanks George…liked the three day showings👍from Minnesota ❄️😊
Iove allof your videos. Your manner to tell us or other vendor. You make NOT feel as ignorant
As we surly might be.like the estate shows fondly, mrs job
What porcelain stories? Stanford White was a very nasty man. Joan Collins played his girlfriend in the Velvet Swing. The objects in this sale are just lovely. She was very good at her craft from what l can see. It all depends on the era when you start collecting your antiques. Fun stuff for me to look at.💗🍀🦋🌺🦄💗🍀🦋🌺🦄💗🍀🦋🌺🦄💗🍀🦋🌺🦄💗🍀🦋🌺🦄💗🍀🦋🌺🦄💗🍀🦋🌺🦄 The Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by Veneer was in the metal frame. It was a movie to with Colin Frith and Scarlet Johansen.
I didn't recognize The Girl with a Pearl Earring, I'm not as well versed on fine art as I should be but I get to learn as well! She was a good porcelain painter. You're right about Stanford White from what I can tell
George, both of these stories were made into movies, and l do love art history. It was one of my majors at MSU. Thank you for all the kindness you have shown me. I would like to thank you for sharing all your wonderful knowledge. Stay safe everyone. 🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚💜💜💜
How many helpers help you hire to prepare and how much do you pay ? Is it by the hour or contract for the day?
I pay hourly and it varies by location. I usually have 3-5 people total
George keep that brass bed for me ...ohh noo it's gone ........ thanks for showing me the bird cage .....
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What a lovely, artistic collection of beautiful things.
I like the mahogany China cabinets, great size.
Me too! So did the buyer, one person bought both for that reason
That lady had amazing talent!! Loved this video!!
My mom & dad grew up in South Tampa. We just emptied my grandma's tiny 1950's house this summer after my uncle died. Then someone immediately tore it down. So sad. But I'm really writing to say that my mom was at the Kennedy speech in Tampa in the days just before he was killed in Dallas. Her middle school (Wilson?...near Hyde Park) got the day off so the kids could attend. It was a big "to-do" that the president was in town. My dad could've gone too, but being a guy (and not so studious), he & his friends found other things to do with their day off--probably play baseball, if I had to guess. Incidentally, he & his brothers & his friends played with and against Lou Piniella, who you may know was also from South Tampa (Jesuit High School). Love hearing bits of local interest in your videos, George.
Hope they dont tear down the hpuse. Shame
Great video George! Thanks for sharing!
In our little corner of New England, people can't even sell all these so-called "treasures."
One of my cousins works with a woman who runs estate sales in the "right" towns that have been havens for old money. The owner has been batting out time and again, with no one coming to free previews or buying. Money is tight here, and people are strapped to pay for high utility bills and groceries. The last thing they want to buy is someone else's castoffs---be it furniture (no market), glassware, and other "treasures." My cousin said the only thing people will buy are mattresses----the buyers (always immigrants/illegals) didn't want the bedframe. Just sell them the mattress so they can throw it on the floor for a place to sleep.
Whether it's antique "treasures" or simply old stuff, people here don't want it and are not going to pay for it. Tag sales used to be big business around here; now, even with extensive advertising online and in print, very few people bother with these sales. As the old saying goes, "The Brinks truck never follows anyone to the cemetery." That's a lesson for all of us about collecting things, the buying/selling of things, and then attempts to unload what we no longer need or want.
Wow, remember when we used to say: "Waste not, want not." "One man's junk is another man's treasure." "He who dies with the most toys wins." "You never see a U-Haul trailer behind a hearse." ??? : )
That was fun!
Thanks! I'm glad you commented and that you had fun like we did
Love this sale. My kind of items. Quality!
They were nice and well kept!
Great job. I loved that little house. I even liked the blue carpet
Glad you liked it!! I appreciated the commitment to color, I'm sure it was nice in its prime
So many beautiful pieces but such a shame that many of these are, in my opinion, valued at such a low price. I hope fashion will come full circle . The quality and workmanship of these antiques is remarkable. So sad. Most modern furniture is simply lacking, for me anyway! I hope these pieces went to people who will value them...they certainly seem to have gotten some good deals. As a viewer, it was lovely to see these treasures and hear your commentary.
Thank you, Tamara! I am happy that people are starting to rediscover them, I do think prices are starting to head up on a lot of things now
What happens to the stuff that does not sell. Does it all go to salvation 4
In this case mostly
Lady with head wrap is Girl with a pearl earring by Vermeer.
I watched all three parts of this video, as George set-up, and arranged, and then executed this LARGE Estate Sale. And wow, many tips here! Good ones! Anyhow, I really enjoyed this Estate Sale video w/ George! (George is soooo knowledgeable! Amazing encyclopedic knowledge and memory! George is great!)
Thank you so much! I hope you got to enjoy the most recent estate sale video
Fun
I have learned so much watching you, I have some very special things I’ve seen in your show, thank you so much!,,
I'm so glad!
I wish other sale holders could follow your guidelines. So many sales, at least prior to Covid, were 50% over retail.
It's so silly! Why do they think people will pay that? My theory is that the sellers want to buy at the end cheap and overprice deliberately
I've been hearing a high-end trend for Estate Sale Professionals is to rent a nicer home for the sale because they're excellent locations for staging everything. So, the next time you are at an upscale estate sale don't assume everything is from that particular home, everything could have been brought in from a combination of a dozen homes. I'm impressed by this level of marketing these estate sellers are doing. I'd want permission from the homeowner and proper insurance coverage if I were ever to try selling at that level.
I also read they are able to command and get much better prices for their sales by renting a nicer house to stage and hold the sale in. Good thinking!😊
I’ve done it both ways, have taken to better venues or from better venues that couldn’t have a sale to lesser venues that could. I figure the main thing is to get the stuff where it can be adequately displayed and arranged and the rest takes care of itself
Great George video to Share with friends !!
George, Please let us know the name of the cooking vlog where the family compares old recipes to healthier ones!!
We lived in Tampa and were on our way to Ft Worth when JFK was shot. I could have spent days in that house! What a talented woman. If I was related to her I would have to buy a bigger house to keep it all. Such a learning experience for all of us, thank you George.
Hey George, your cook book lady might like what I have. I have some cook books dated back to the 40’s and 50’s.
Sounds right up her alley!
It looks like a great sale. That woman was very talented.
I have a piece of the red anchor hocking. The berry bowl like she had. It’s nice to watch and see pieces that I have and what they’re selling for.
I love your videos.
Oh thank you! I always liked that set too
Goldfish watercolor was my favorite, so GORGEOUS, very talented artist!!!!!!!!!
That was pretty nice!
I have a love/hate relationship with these videos. Love to see and learn about everything. Hate not being there!!!!
What happens to everything that did not sale?
Family donating to three different thrift stores
I wished you did sales here. Prices in my area of NC are outrageous!
Me too! Maybe you'll hear of one coming up someday, stranger things have happened.
How can I get on your email list
For Florida sales, it's TampaBay-EstateSales.Com, you can sign up there
I enjoyed this video. Thank you!
I'm a Kindergarten teacher and those bells make me so happy! I can just imagine you doing that over and over again as a child - precious!!🤣
You clearly are meant to teach little kids! I’m not sure it was all that endearing lol
That was "Girl With the Pear Earring" by Johannes Vermeer, and it's lovely! (china painted)
Yes, a few people recognized it right away! I'm not so well educated in fine art.
Hey George! I like the old hen and rooster sets, and have several sets of them. Some were from my grandmother. Love those cabinets especially the Hepplewhite-style one. I really like Bristol Glass. It really doesn't matter to me if it's English or American - it's all pretty. If I had to choose one, though, I probably go with the English. It has more history and goes back much further than the American Bristol. I'd love to have that lap desk! Where was the fish platter from? Did she paint that one? If she did, she did a fantastic job on it! Those are a favourite of mine. That chandelier was a nice one. I tend to go for the more elegant ones over the styles today. That lady was seriously a good porcelain painter! Some of those pieces would make me do a double-take. I really liked her watercolours, too. Wow! Day two really showed how much was selling! Day three...it was showing on your face😏 You looked really zonked! That was a really interesting insight into what all goes into an estate sale. Thanks for sharing this!!!
I really wish I could permanently absorb your knowledge and wisdom, George! I have to admit I’m surprised you didn’t recognize the Vermeer Girl With Pearl Earring repro. Or maybe it’s something you couldn’t say. It was funny when you said “frankly” about Sinatra records. 😂
Lol I use "frankly" too much, I didn't even catch that! I should have recognized the Vermeer Girl with Pearl Earring but I honestly have only a sketchy art education and don't have great recall, I'm a better art researcher than I am an art appreciation expert
@@TheAntiqueNomad 😱😱😱 hard to fathom.
Did everything sell?
Not everything, but most things, it was a good sale!
One of the paintings that you showed in this video is kinda famous... google "the girl with the pearl earring" There is a movie about it by the same name.
This was really interesting. Thanks for taking the time out of your busy day to show us around.
Glad you enjoyed it!
No duel between Thaw and White.
This was a great video! I loved how you gave an update/tour after each sale day. As an avid Estate Sale fan, it was so interesting to see what happens behind the scenes. Thanks George.
I am loving the informative crawl on the bottom! Fun to be updated on sales!
Where are you located? I conduct them in Florida, Kentucky/lower Ohio River and Seattle-Portland.
Very fun, very informative. I look forward to the future when we can go back to business as usual and all of us start hitting estate sales again!! Fun video!!
Hello my friend. I hope you were able to pick up some nice things! I wish I was there. So many nice things!!!
Hi! Good to see you. I did have fun and you'd have liked this one in person!
Sales done right are fun to attend, so appreciate all your work!
Thank you! I try hard for the people I work to help
✌🏼💚✌🏼💚 4 feet of fresh snow ❄️ last, but weather is breaking, 50s all week. Getting the itch, I need an auction. 💚✌🏼💚✌🏼 Ty George for all your vast knowledge
Clear glas is so versatile.
Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Great video!
Thank you! I had fun making it go away
Love it all especially bristol glass china cabinets and perfume bottles
George takes out a very nice vase and inverts it to show, careful there, SHE may be inside. Also looked like it could be the urn!
Could be yikes! Lol. I've heard of such happening to dealers before
That was fun.. thank you for sharing the process
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow!!!👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed watching, we had fun doing it!
I liked the blue carpet. I guess I’m weird.
Actually, my mom's teal carpet is perfect with her white furniture! It's unconventional but it can work well if you put it together right
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I think I spotted you today at my favorite thrift store in St. Petersburg, can't wait to see that video.
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That's funny! I am working on that one for Monday
Thanks George! Great video!
Frame 32:55 What is that shell looking item between the chair & table ?? Is it real ?
It was a pillow! neat looking but not old
Great video
Wonderful information and fun to see the entire process of the sale. Thanks again George. Very talented lady of the house also.
She was! I’m conducting another sale in Florida next weekend that has nice antiques too
Edith, I wonder what you think of someone going through all your collectables and then them being sold? I always hope the buyer will love as much as the original owner....sigh!
Lol. I love the opening of this video with the bells. Lol 😂 The one’s your mother would pack first.
Love your channel!! Loved your remark on the rude woman and advised us resellers not to go there!! You go George!! Cleveland Ohio here!! We have a large antique mall here in Medina and numerous antique stores. Pls come visit us ok? Im a part-time reseller also. Pls help me get on the map!! 😅😊
Wow I could have spent my whole pay check at this sale💗
It was a big one!
Oh my goodness! I've been to estate sales and I think you can ask a premium just for how clean and well presented everything is! I would expect to pay a little more walking into that AND I would be very confident in whatever I bought. I do have a question about the gorgeous corsage clear glass from the 40's? I would swear that's Victorian, how do you know the difference? Was there a Victorian revival during that era? Also, this house was built the same year I was so, this was very nostalgic for me :)
There was a lot of interest in collecting Victorian/Early American pressed glass in the 1940s, the designs being made then were definitely influenced by the older pieces
There is a family home I have some tiny part of - built 1828 of solid cypress. The cypress doors were faux painted to look like oak, the large baseboards and mantle were faux painted to look like a pale pink marble. The original paint is still there.
😳 I have that Vine Rose Limoges.. I would love the serving pieces. 🤦🏼♀️
Such a lovely pattern! One gal bought all that wasn't damaged.
Thank you, I learn so much from you. I sell antiques at an antique mall but I usually like to triple price what I bought it for but depends too on the value and the demand just because of all the overhead taxes, storage, etc...
Interesting tips. Always wish I was there.
Maybe one day!
Knowles still collectible. Tiffany & company doing anything
I love Portuguese pottery! What are the better marks of it? Glad to learn that clear glass may make a comeback as I have a huge set of Cambridge Wildflowers. Some of it went through my mom’s first dishwasher (!) in the sixties and the gold is gone. I plan to dig out this crystal and use the damaged pieces and maybe sell the good stuff.
Good! I think people should use the stuff, that's how other people will get to see and enjoy it too. I really don't know of any scholarship on Portugese pottery marks, a lot was made in the last 25-30 years so it may be too fresh yet
Love your videos. I learn so much. This one was great, sale start to finish. Not many channels do that.
Haviland... his story is extremely fascinating.
Great video George. Thanks for sharing. How can I be added to your email list so I'm notified of your sales?
Go to TampaBay-EstateSales.com and you'll be able to sign up
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Did your Dad's VW have the flower pockets?
Thank you for being sensitive to things made in China and not discounting that there are things that are of quality and value. Other youtube thrifter's have an annoying stance to objects made in China which makes me unsubscribe them immediately.
that is a Vermeer tho a copy painted on porcelain with not only a neat frame.....but I think it is quite collectable. I love your videos.Barb
when would you date the spinet desk?
1940s
Woman, an adult female is a woman, not a gal.
Gal is a dismisive term. Take note, please. Thanks
Had I seen this episode in time I would have bought the miniatures of the squriel and the Bear ❣️
Hi George there Might be foster care people that will fit pick up some of the furniture for the young adults that are aging out of foster care and they have to move out and they have no furniture so I’m not sure about where you live but there might be someone at collecting for that I don’t know how to look it up but there’s a lady in the desert that does it in California
Were do you advertise your estate sales?
You may join my estate sale email lists, links are in the description. You also may look for me on estatesales.net, and in Craigslist if it's in your area. Where are you?
@@TheAntiqueNomad I'm close to Savannah ,but I have family in Tampa!
They can also subscribe to my TampaBay-EstateSales.com mailing list for free
Amazing sale thank you George California
George ! your a pro filming and walking backwards lol ! what a great video i learned so much in this one ! Thank you so much, i really enjoyed this video ! ! ! what a great job !!! i laughed out loud at horn of revelry !
Great video! Thanks for sharing, I love seeing all the items for sale. I too hope they dont tear the house down, just needs remodel and update.
Me too! I'm glad you enjoyed getting to see it through the lens of an estate sale guy