Items of Value Inc

    This sale is in a mansion in Great Falls.  It has 4 floors, 2 staircases, and garage parking for 5 cars.  You will thoroughly enjoy walking through the house, seeing the interior views up and down the stairs and from the balcony. 

     This is a downsizing sale encompassing items from three generations.  You will find a rather large assortment of framed pictures/prints/paintings, several antiques in the way of porcelain and glassware.  Antique furniture includes a dry sink that has been expertly refinished, an antique oak-veneered china cabinet, wall clock, 7 side chairs.  Other furniture is 20th century, including 2 bedroom sets, office furniture, baby grand piano.  We have put the Kirk vintage "Mayflower" pattern sterling silver in one of the two display cases that we brought in, along with costume jewelry.  The other case displays a small collection of compacts, ceramic boxes, plus leather holsters (sorry the firearms stay with the heirs) and knives.  The swords are on a display table in the basement.

     Of great interest to some of you will be the period vintage Lionel train cars and apparatus, most in their original boxes.  Take time to note the particular train items in our photos and do your on-line price research before coming to the sale.  Of interest especially to the women and somewhat to the men are FINE clothes.  You will discover 2 evening gowns hanging in a closet.  Men will find approx size 42 suits, jackets, ties, shirts.

     You will find a pair of antique girandoles flanking an antique (probably French) formerly gilt bronze mantle clock.  Small collections include salt/pepper shakers and animals from around the world made in a variety of materials.  There are 2 very nice white marble boxes with semiprecious stone inlay from India, some holiday items (especially Christmas).  We have set the dining table with a floral pattern dinnerware and vintage crystal goblets.  A large silverplate punch bowl sits in the center of the table flanked by clear pressed glass candelabra.  You will find more stemware plus cut crystal bowls in the china cabinet.  A special item for collectors of vintage smoking paraphernalia is the cigarette dispenser music box gondola.  It includes a ballerina who twirls on the front of the gondola as the entire gondola turns around to music.  Like other items in this sale, it was a travel souvenir that was purchased but never used.  You will find many travel books in the basement.

     This sale has a lot of silverplate.  We usually do not clean silverplate anymore because it is not cost-effective.  However, this time we made an exception because of nature of some of the silverplate items.  Note in particular a very heavy silverplate tea service on tray.  If you have space for it in your home, consider the fine work station with bookcase, cabinets, drawers.   Equally large is the reproduction dining table that sits six in reproduction chairs.

      You will find over 300 books for sale, most of which we have assembled on shelves in the basement.  There you will also find over 30 packed boxes.  Since our client is pressed for time to sort through these boxes before the sale, we are returning to the sale site on Wednesday, 21 August, to see what else she has had time to sort through and will give us for sale.  At that time, we will photograph those items and post them Thursday morning as part of our sale announcement.

     Please bring empty boxes and canvas tote bags with you because we have no boxes to offer for packing.  Look forward to another good sale by Items of Value.  NOTES:  We are not putting out a sign-in sheet for this sale because the house is large enough to accommodate a lot of people at one time.  Our client is still deciding on what to sell and what to keep.