Gold in any form
Scrap chains, dental gold, bullion, broken rings, class rings, coins. Weighed in front of you on a certified scale, priced against the spot on the day you walk in.
We come to the house. Gold, diamonds, jewelry, watches, coins, sterling and antiques get appraised on your dining table while you watch, priced against the market that same afternoon, and paid for before the truck leaves.
Sell a house piecemeal and you end up with the jeweler on Clematis, the coin man in Lake Worth, a furniture dealer who only wants two pieces, and three weekends gone. The things you know least about are exactly where that goes wrong. One appointment covers the whole range instead.
Scrap chains, dental gold, bullion, broken rings, class rings, coins. Weighed in front of you on a certified scale, priced against the spot on the day you walk in.
Loose stones and mounted pieces. We grade colour, clarity, cut and carat on site and explain what each grade does to the number we quote.
Rolex, Cartier, Patek, Omega and the rest. Box and papers help, but a watch without them still has real value — we price the movement and the case, not the paperwork alone.
Inherited albums, rolls of silver, foreign accumulations. Collections are sorted piece by piece, because one date in an otherwise ordinary album can carry the whole lot.
Flatware services, tea sets, trays, candelabra. Sterling gets weighed; makers such as Tiffany, Georg Jensen or Buccellati are valued well above melt.
Furniture, paintings, bronzes, porcelain, clocks, Judaica, militaria. If a specialist market exists for it, that is the market we price it against.
Clearing a parent's house is a job that arrives at the worst possible moment. There is a probate deadline, a closing date on the property, siblings in three states with three opinions, and a garage full of things nobody has looked at since 1988. The valuation is the easy part. The logistics are what keeps people awake.
That is the part we take off your hands. One visit establishes what is in the house and what it is worth. If the family wants to keep the dining set and the portraits, they stay. Everything else is priced as a single lot, paid for, and removed — including the pieces that carry no resale value at all, which is usually most of the volume.
Choosing an estate buyer and estate liquidator is usually the first real decision a family makes here, and it sets the tone for everything that follows. Where an item needs a specialist market it goes to one — including our own antique and collectibles desk. A signed piece of studio pottery, a period Rolex, a run of early Florida land maps: these do not belong in a weekend tag sale, and pricing them as though they did is the most common way an estate loses money.
We work regularly with estate attorneys, trust officers and realtors who need a property emptied before a listing goes live. If you are administering an estate from out of state, the whole process can run on photographs and phone calls.
Houses keep producing more gold than any one family needs, so some of it goes back out through us. What is on the shelf came out of estates in this county rather than from a wholesaler's catalogue.
Tell us roughly what is in the house. You do not need to know what any of it is — half our callers open with "there is a lot of old stuff and I have no idea."
Anywhere in Palm Beach County, and down into Broward when it is a full household. Nothing needs to be boxed, sorted, cleaned or carried anywhere first. Leave it exactly as it stands.
Room by room, cabinet by cabinet, out loud. You hear what each thing is and what drives its price while we are standing in front of it, not in a report three days later.
A single figure for everything, or line by line if the family wants to keep some of it. Nothing is deducted afterwards and there is no consignment period to wait through.
Cash or a check before we leave, wire for larger estates. Then the truck comes and the house ends up empty — including all the things that were never worth anything, which is most of the volume.
The scale, the tester and the loupe sit on the table between us. Every evaluation is said out loud as it happens, and you can stop the process at any point to ask why.
The drive out is free, the appraisal is free, there is no commission and nothing gets deducted after the fact. Turning us down costs exactly nothing.
The person who walks your house is a licensed appraiser, not a driver with a price sheet. Ask what something is and you get an answer with reasoning attached.
What was in the house stays between us and the family. Every deal leaves with documentation the estate can file, and most of our week comes from families we served before or the attorneys handling their probate.
The office sits in Delray Beach; the work happens wherever the house is. Most weeks that means somewhere between Jupiter and Fort Lauderdale, and the drive costs you nothing.
Usually, yes. A three-bedroom in Boynton or Wellington takes one visit to appraise and one to clear, and both can happen inside a week if the family has decided what stays. The tight ones are houses with forty years of paperwork in the garage — sorting documents is slower than moving furniture.
Nobody, strictly speaking. We have done entire clearances with the family on speakerphone and a neighbour holding the key. Photographs go out as we work, the written valuation follows, and payment can be split between heirs or sent to the estate account.
Depends what it is for. For dividing property between heirs or for a probate filing, ask for the written valuation and we prepare it. For a straightforward sale the offer and receipt are usually all anyone wants.
They leave with everything else at no extra charge. The exercise bike, the tube television, the twelve boxes of Christmas decorations — none of it has resale value, and hauling it is part of the job rather than an add-on line.
Please do not. Every year somebody polishes the sterling before we arrive and takes value off it, or throws out the "junk" drawer that held a gold class ring. Leave the house as it is and let us go through it.
That comes up more often than you would think. We bring someone who opens it in front of you, and whatever is inside gets appraised the same as the rest of the house — or handed to you untouched if you would rather deal with it privately.
Yes, and plenty of families do it that way. Jewelry gets settled in twenty minutes at the Delray Beach office while the rest of the estate waits on probate, a sale date or a sibling flying in.
One ring can usually be given a range over the phone. A house needs a visit, and we will find a time this week — mornings are easier for us, but evenings happen when families are flying in and out.