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Title: My great aunt is clearing house!Only 5 hours to claim valuable antiques!HELP PLZ
Post by: joe40001 on March 16, 2014, 05:00:28 am
My great aunt is moving into a much smaller place, she is clearing out everything from her place. I was just sent this huge list of items and I’m supposed to claim anything I might want otherwise it’s going to be tossed. I’m not an art/antiques/jewelry guy, what here has a chance to be valuable? Our great aunt is fairly wealthy but our family is fairly poor, so if there is stuff off here that could be valuable, please tell me which items it might be.

Any help is appreciated, I don't have much time but she's old and wealthy enough that one of these things could be super valuable.

3 Galleries of items, just scroll through and let me know what might be valuable:
http://imgur.com/a/y0QW3
http://imgur.com/a/RpvM0
http://imgur.com/a/AMbCg
Title: Re: My great aunt is clearing house!Only 5 hours to claim valuable antiques!HELP PLZ
Post by: Ipcress on March 16, 2014, 06:12:43 am
Gold jewellery, a mounted Thaler ( might be original but they have reproduced these, although still in silver ), a Japanned black lacquered cabinet.
A nice Longines watch, a good mixture of art glass, what looks like a musical box...

They look to the best of a decent bunch ! most of the porcelain and paintings looked quite generic to me - nothing nice.


For anyone else looking - click on an individual image. Hover the mouse arrow over it and a cross and cog should appear on the right. Click on the cog and select " full resolution " to zoom.
Title: Re: My great aunt is clearing house!Only 5 hours to claim valuable antiques!HELP PLZ
Post by: IlliniGuy on March 16, 2014, 08:38:04 am
Walnut Shelf Clock, Wedgewood plate w/JFK, Slag glass pitcher, possible? precolumbian pot under items 3 bottom of page one, 3 tables with inlay,
Title: Re: My great aunt is clearing house!Only 5 hours to claim valuable antiques!HELP PLZ
Post by: mart on March 16, 2014, 08:42:12 am
Haven`t seen the pics but from what I read from the others,, why not just take what she doesn`t want and go through it later !!
Title: Re: My great aunt is clearing house!Only 5 hours to claim valuable antiques!HELP PLZ
Post by: cogar on March 16, 2014, 12:12:07 pm
Huummmm, must have taken you more that 5 hours to take pictures and upload them to a web  site so you probably will have to salvage them from where ever your rich aunt tossed them.
Title: Re: My great aunt is clearing house!Only 5 hours to claim valuable antiques!HELP PLZ
Post by: Ipcress on March 16, 2014, 12:27:08 pm
Yes, Cogar - i was expecting an Ebay link


Maybe we're just too cynical !
Title: Re: My great aunt is clearing house!Only 5 hours to claim valuable antiques!HELP PLZ
Post by: mart on March 16, 2014, 01:00:28 pm
Cynical,,yes !! That was 7am and they haven`t been back !!  When someone takes that much time to take good pics, post them to an imaging site then move them here and say they only have 5 hours which has already passed,,I am wondering whats up with this !!
Title: Re: My great aunt is clearing house!Only 5 hours to claim valuable antiques!HELP PLZ
Post by: KC on March 17, 2014, 09:35:00 am
Something doesn't feel right about this one....