NEED TO SELL? – Professional online selling services for vintage and antique items
Have vintage or antique items you’d like to sell, but don’t want to deal with the work involved in photographing, measuring, researching, pricing, cataloguing and listing them online?
European Vintage Emporium can help.
We offer online listing and selling services for vintage, antique and collectible items, helping individuals turn unwanted possessions, collections or inherited items into saleable online listings.
Depending on your requirements, we can arrange for a representative to visit, photograph your items, take measurements, document their condition, research and determine appropriate prices, and prepare professional online listings.
Items can potentially be offered through our own website or appropriate third-party marketplaces such as Etsy and eBay. The selling platform can be discussed as part of the service.
Our listing service is generally available in Northern France, although we can consider travelling further for larger consignments.
Whether you have a single interesting antique or a larger collection to sell, we can discuss what would work best for you.
VALUATIONS & ESTATES – Antique, vintage and collectible valuations
Knowing what something is worth can be important when you’re selling, insuring, dividing an estate or simply trying to understand what you own.
We provide official online valuations for vintage and antique items, with local in-person valuations available by arrangement.
We also provide valuation services for probate and inherited estates, helping establish the value of collections and household contents where a formal valuation is required for estate administration and inheritance-tax purposes.
For larger estates, we can visit the property and carry out a walk-around valuation, providing information about individual items and practical advice about the best ways to dispose of them.
Our valuation work can cover antiques, vintage items, collectables, furniture, decorative objects and other items where specialist knowledge of the vintage and antiques market is useful.
Online valuations currently start at £35, while larger probate and estate valuations are quoted according to the size of the collection, location and work involved. Fees are discussed before larger valuation projects begin.
Confidential. Practical. Based on decades of experience buying and selling vintage and antiques.
CONSIGNMENT SALES – Sell your collection without doing all the work yourself
Perhaps you have inherited a collection, are downsizing, moving house or simply have accumulated more vintage and antique items than you want to deal with.
Our consignment selling service allows you to hand much of the work over to us.
Depending on the arrangement, we can store your items, photograph them, measure and catalogue them, research and price them, create online listings, deal with customer enquiries, manage sales, carefully pack sold items and arrange dispatch.
You don’t need to become an expert in online selling or spend your evenings answering questions from potential buyers.
You have the things. We do the rest.
Consignment services are generally available in Northern France, with larger consignments elsewhere potentially considered by arrangement. Fees depend on the size and logistics of the consignment, with the current standard structure including a set-up fee and commission on successful sales.
Before any consignment project begins, we’ll discuss the proposed arrangement, costs and practicalities with you.
INVENTORY & CATALOGUING – Turn a collection into an organised, searchable record
A well-organised inventory can be useful for much more than selling.
We can create electronic or paper-based inventories and catalogues of vintage, antique and collectible items for a variety of purposes, including:
- selling and consignment
- collection management
- insurance
- investment
- estate planning
- research and reference
- museums and organisations
- private collections
Depending on the project, information can include photographs, descriptions, measurements, condition, provenance, valuations and other useful records.
We can produce information in a range of formats, including printed catalogues, databases and bespoke websites, and can maintain and update an inventory as your collection changes.
The technical and database side of our inventory services is supported by our own computer and business-services company, FRUKIT, allowing us to combine antiques knowledge with practical database and web expertise.
From a box of objects to a properly documented collection.
CONSULTANCY – Antiques and collectables consultancy from experienced specialists
Sometimes you don’t need someone to sell your things. You simply need someone who understands the market.
We offer confidential consultancy and training covering various aspects of the antiques and collectables trade.
This can include advice about:
Acquisition
Finding and purchasing vintage and antique items for a collection.
Collecting
Building, managing or developing a collection.
Investment
Understanding markets, values, risks and opportunities.
Leasing
Advice relating to the use of vintage and antique objects in commercial environments.
Business development
Practical guidance for people considering entering or developing a business in the antiques and collectables trade.
We’ve also helped local individuals who wanted to learn more about the trade and establish their own businesses.
Consultancy can be provided remotely or, where appropriate, in person. Fees depend on the nature of the work and logistics involved.
Decades of practical experience, available when you need it.
SOMETHING ELSE IN MIND? – Tell us what you’re trying to achieve
Not every project fits neatly into a list of services.
Perhaps you’ve inherited a large collection and don’t know where to start. Maybe you’re downsizing, looking for help selling an unusual group of objects, building a collection, researching a particular area of the antiques market or simply have a problem that requires a little specialist knowledge.
We’re happy to discuss it.
Our physical services are primarily available in Northern France, with larger projects elsewhere considered by arrangement. Our online consultancy, valuation and cataloguing services can be provided much more widely.
Tell us what you’re trying to achieve, what you have and where you are.
We’ll tell you what we can do.
