Who can sell Victorian Stained Glass from the 1890's
 

A dear friend of mine has inherited nearly 200 pieces of stunningly beautiful Victorian red stained glass. She has no space for it so she asked me if I knew how or where to market it. The collection is about 135 years old.

I suggested eBay but she's not into doing the leg work to take the photos, list it, then pack it up and mail it out to individual buyers.

I also suggested the route of finding an antique shop which may take things on consignment or just purchase it outright from her.

She lives in the Lakes Region so she'd like a reputable someone local to help her out. Does anyone know of someplace where she can take this to have someone help her out with marketing it and finding a good home for it ?

Here's the first place .... www.restorationresources.com/stainedglass.html ...... that showed up for Boston. Click on other services and it says consignment and related resales. Is down the South End, somewhere.

Auctioneer
 

I'd find an auctioneer who specializes. Some will buy as well. They can give you an idea of value and which pieces to focus on. They have mailing lists of folks all over the country who are interested in specialties. Talk to a couple--they will give you different marketing strategies depending on your collection.
Google: NH Auctioneers

I wonder how many cool collections of interesting stuff will end up in landfills some day. I love antiques but a lot of younger people do not seem to have the same interests.

When my wife's mom passed away, she had a lot of nice things, like Lenox dishes, depression stemware, silver plated flatware, and some higher end jewelry items. Her sister and the grand children didn't want any of it. We ended up keeping it. We will probably end up having to sell a lot of stuff on eBay when I retire.

There is no sentimental value to things our parents and grandparents owned. I blame everything on the damn phones we have that seem to dominate our lives. I'm sure there are other reasons, but the younger generation seems to have no desire to learn about anything that came before them.

I have three generations of china in boxes collecting dust on the attic floor. Kids want nothing to do with it. Waiting for someone to come up with a craft idea that takes a service of 12


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Pull!
 

That’s what my says our duck hunting sons are going to do with her china and Spode collection.

you're absolutely right. Many older items like hot rods are slowly declining in interest

leaded stained glass? my wife and I still buy items thru Smiths Auctions in Plainfield NH. there one of if the last auctioneers around. We have interest in leaded stained glass if she wants to contact us? good luck