Selling Valuable Doll Collection
REM #F719
By Ilyce R. Glink
Summary: A reader would like to help a friend sell her valuable doll collection. Ilyce suggests working with one of the reputable auction houses.
Q: Someone I am counseling with would like to sell her valuable doll collection.
What are her options? What is the best/safest method? I don't know what to suggest.
A: How valuable is the doll collection? Are we talking $1,000 or $100,000?
Either way, you should call a local auction house and then talk to someone from
either Christie's, Sotheby's or one of the other top auction houses about the
collection. There may be a fee involved to appraise the collection (which they
may be able to do from digital photos sent through the Internet), but if the
collection is truly valuable, spending several hundred dollars is money well
spent.
Having an appraisal from a top auction house would then allow your client to
perhaps sell the collection her self on E-Bay, but I do think the best price
for a top collection would come from a nationally-known auction company.
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