If you had a family heirloom that was worth money, would you keep it, or sell it?

I have several East Lake furniture pieces,,Settee, matching. rocker, marble top stand .

Would love to sell them as I'm sure our sons don't want them.

I did try selling on Craigslist,, got scammers tying to but sight unseen.

Replies ,, were truck driver will give you a check for it.

I haven't tried Facebook's Marketplace.
Guessing the same type of scammer is on there ,too.
 
Sliverfox said:
I have several East Lake furniture pieces,,Settee, matching. rocker, marble top stand .

Would love to sell them as I'm sure our sons don't want them.

I did try selling on Craigslist,, got scammers tying to but sight unseen.

Replies ,, were truck driver will give you a check for it.

I haven't tried Facebook's Marketplace.
Guessing the same type of scammer is on there ,too.
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Have you talked to interior decorators or real antique shops in larger town?
 

After three major wars there is not much old stuff left.

We found room for our artwork and some pieces my father bought for us. Somehow it decided to work together - Harland Holiday facing 18th carving of Saint Christopher:) It is our story and what happens to it after we are gone - out of my control.
 
Sliverfox said:
I have several East Lake furniture pieces,,Settee, matching. rocker, marble top stand .

Would love to sell them as I'm sure our sons don't want them.

I did try selling on Craigslist,, got scammers tying to but sight unseen.

Replies ,, were truck driver will give you a check for it.

I haven't tried Facebook's Marketplace.
Guessing the same type of scammer is on there ,too.
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I had a walnut Eastlake double bed in perfect shape that took me 6 months to sell. I only got 250 for it. Dealer’s or antique shops weren’t interested.
 
Teacher Terry said:
I had a walnut Eastlake double bed in perfect shape that took me 6 months to sell. I only got 250 for it. Dealer’s or antique shops weren’t interested.
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I feel your pain. Our grass guy was kind enough to accept a 5 year old off white custom built sofa which turned I to a queen bed by ways of ottoman from Custom Leather Store in Alliance, TX. Now I am looking to regime a Theodore Alexander table plus chairs for 6-10. Anyone?
 
We had a friend who was Godmother to our sons. She died unexpectedly and all her goods went to an auction house, she never had any siblings. We went along just to buy something in her memory. My husband bid on a small plate of the Mona Lisa which she bought in Italy, it cost him $10. 00.. Just as we were going down the stairs, he dropped the plate, and it smashed to pieces. He looked at me and said, "The old bi*ch never wanted me to have that". We had a good old laugh, because she was a very secretive person and never wanted anyone to know about her travels.
 
I inherited a goodly amount of expensive diamond jewelry from my mother and her mother, plus have a fair bit I bought in younger years. These days, nearly all of it sits in a bank safety deposit box. No clue what my daughter and sons will do with it when I pass.
 
StarSong said:
I inherited a goodly amount of expensive diamond jewelry from my mother and her mother, plus have a fair bit I bought in younger years. These days, nearly all of it sits in a bank safety deposit box. No clue what my daughter and sons will do with it when I pass.
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I talked to SO about my "box" the other day. He said wear it! Where? Grocery store! So I do.
 
When my great-grandmother died, my great aunt came over to give my GM (who lived with us) some of "Mama's things." My GM took one look at the box and said to her sister, "You take those right back with you when you go home. I dusted them long enough!"

Few people have interest in other people's Precious Moments or tchotchke collections.

There's a big difference between valuable heirlooms and junk.
 
my grandmother put together a list of her stuff and who should get it... well before anyone expected her to leave us. she just came out and asked people what they would like. she didn't have much with any serious monetary value. my aunt (her daughter) thought what she did was terrible. Nana's thought was if she decided who got what ahead of time there wouldn't be fights over stuff when she was gone.

my sister got her trusty little Singer sewing machine... still runs tho only one kind of stitch... straight. my brother got a "civil war" sword. had to be of that time but nothing to verify that. I got a "gold" pocket watch... no idea of the value... has to be civil war era.
 
My Wifes Mom died last spring after an extended illness. Her diamond rings and money had disappeared.
She was an insurance underwriter. Lived a good life, spent her retirement summers in Colorado Rockies.
Her dad had passed 5 years before. The trail was dry, she bedridden finally, but several years of immobility.
The usual people with repetitive entry to the home clammed up.

You know what goes around comes back around. It's those persons self-conscious.
 
papa tiger said:
My Wifes Mom died last spring after an extended illness. Her diamond rings and money had disappeared.
She was an insurance underwriter. Lived a good life, spent her retirement summers in Colorado Rockies.
Her dad had passed 5 years before. The trail was dry, she bedridden finally, but several years of immobility.
The usual people with repetitive entry to the home clammed up.

You know what goes around comes back around. It's those persons self-conscious.
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I had a similar situation when I did my father's sister's estate. Nothing of real value was to be found. The estate attorney asked a friend of my aunt's about the estate jewelry. She didn't even try to hide the fact she had taken it - "To pay for my expenses when I cared for her the last few years." I don't think the attorney pursued it - to my knowledge. At least no money showed up in the estate and my aunt left debts of nearly $40K.

If you're wondering what happened, somehow the attorney got the debts reduced, but not eliminated. In the end I did all the work (selling the contents of her house and the house and cleaning out what was left). By the time the dust settled, I had to split what was left with three cousins on that side of the family, pay the debts and the attorney fee, I got around $1600 and that included the executor fee.
 
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debodun said:
What else can I do? Can't sell it - even give it away. Goodwill and SA don't even want it.
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Take it to the senior center, ask at a yard sake if you can add a box of "free", park it at the curb with a sign "free". Goodwill does not accept very specific items only.
 

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