It starts with a meeting. We have seamlessly handled homes of all sizes, from 4,000 to 17,000+ square feet. Homes with high end, luxury items, designer decorated homes, and family homes with quality furnishings. We only do one auction at a time and we devote our attention and expertise specifically to your situation. We can appraise your valuable items and offer suggestions for the best way for you to make the most money. If you find you have suddenly sold your house that you have lived in for the past 30 years and the closing date is near, we can not only sell the contents, but we can provide services to make the house broom clean for the final "walk-through".
Our Auctions
How It Works
Whether you are moving, downsizing or responsible for the removal of a family member's belongings, Silver Creek Estate & Antique has built a reputation that assures a stress-free and profitable experience. It starts with a consultation where we discuss your items and their value and what we believe will sell. We review the higher valued items and potential alternative options for selling them for the greatest amount of money. When items are finalized, we then merchandise them to be visually appealing and photograph them for the sale.
How We Work
Discretion is our priority. We will list your sale, without listing your address or identifying real estate photos to protect your privacy. The sale will be nationally promoted for at least two weeks before the sale with upscale advertising and an editorial presentation.
The Auction Bidding starts when we post the sale and it goes "live" online. There is a clear closing date and time for all bids. There is a prearranged date and time for the winners to pick up their won lots. We do not permit anyone inside your home, our staff brings the won items to the bidders who wait in their car. We are staffed with educated sales people and security personnel and traffic attendants.
Our staff also has the ability to make deliveries in the immediate tri-state area to winner's homes.At the completion of the sale, anything that is left over, if appropriate, will go to our Consignment Shop or we will help you decide upon disposition of the remaining articles. If you require a complete auction clean out, we have a team of people who can load dumpsters, clean the house and make it ready for the closing.
What Sells
Antiques & Collectibles
Furniture & Home Decor
China, Silver, Crystal
Books & Art
Garden Furniture & Statuary
Advertising Art & Ephemera
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
Sports Equipment
Promotion
Nationwide Advertising
Shipping & Moving
Services for Buyers
Exclusive Contact List
of Collectors,
Dealers & Designers
Targeted Websites
Social & Print Media
Direct Mail
Antiques & Collectibles
We are well respected antique and art sellers. Our collectors and fellow dealers follow us and our sales. When we have an auction, more often than not, it is one of our followers who contact us immediately when we promote your items. Whether it be an antique, fine art, sterling silver, desireable china and glassware, quality rugs, garden statuary or rare books, we ensure your treasures will be shown in their best light and are sold for the most money.
Before the auction, we will appraise your items and give you guidance on their worth. For the rare and highly sought after collector's item, we will offer other selling opportunities outside of an auction so you will receive as close to market price as possible.
Fine Furniture
Beautiful furniture is one of the most popular items at a sale. After our initial consultation, we will research its value to help determine proper pricing. In preparation for the sale, we will stage your furniture, photograph it and attend to the cleaning or polishing where necessary.
For high value antiques, vintage period or designer pieces, we can also recommend other venues for selling including private collectors and the trade.
Childhood Collectibles
Everyone wants to recapture their happy childhood memories. Childhood collectibles are a specialty market that we don't exclude.
Collectors search to find the treasures they love. Through our wide ranging promotion of your sale - if we show it, they will find it and they will bid.
Never think that buyers won't be interested in "that old thing." You would be surprised what the value is of something that seems past its prime.
This is why it is vital that you do not throw anything away before we have our first consultation. Once we go through everything, we will guide you on what you should keep and what you can discard.
Private Sales for Collectors and the Trade
Private Sales are set up either by invitation only or by appointment only. This allows true collectors and high end designers to view your items in a more controlled and much more pleasant environment.
We Come Prepared
We've held auctions in homes from the 18th Century to ultra modern, and we have seen a lot and have the ability to find multiple ways to overcome whatever obstacle should arise.
Old homes are often updated without considering if the furniture can be removed once the renovation is over.
Over the years our staff has utilized many techniques to work around old homes that may contain furniture that is too large to remove in a normal manner. We take pride in protecting your home and only use professional, licensed movers to move the furniture in your home.
