Specialty Auctions and Collections
Note: If you want to auction your collection(s) online to help meet your financial needs or just create space, we can help. We can auction larger collections of coins, gold jewelry, diamonds, sterling silver, 1960’s baseball cards, comic books, or other valuable items that are easy to ship. If you have items you’d like to auction in a socially-distanced way, please contact Central Mass Auctions.
Do you have a serious, perhaps rare collection – built over years by an avid collector – that you think might be hard to sell?
That’s good news, because collections auction well. A collection may only appeal to a small group of buyers, but these buyers may be willing to pay high prices for your collection.
Central Mass Auctions can get your collection in front of the obsessed collectors. We hold what’s known as a specialty auction or collectibles auction. We’ve sold rare, niche, and unusual collections at auctions across greater Boston, all of Massachusetts, New England, and beyond.
Some specialty auctions consist solely of one type of antique item or other collection. For example, we have sold collections at auctions that focused exclusively on:
- Rare radios
- Art auctions, including online art auctions
- Coins (particularly gold coins and silver coins)
- Bullion (gold and silver)
- Estate jewelry and/or vintage jewelry (diamond, gold, and silver), including gold rings
- Sterling silver
- Comic books (DC and Marvel, and Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age comics – including Batman and Superman)
- Antique toys
- Sculpture auctions
- Classic cars
- Antique firearms
- Asian antiques & art
- Musical instruments
- Vintage toys
- Nautical / maritime collectibles auctions
- Airplane and aviation memorabilia auctions
- Motorcycle memorabilia auctions
- Political memorabilia auctions
- Ephemera auctions
- Firefighting memorabilia auctions
- Early baseball memorabilia auctions
- Historical photographs and antique or vintage cameras
- Movie posters and memorabilia
- Sports memorabilia auctions
- Boston sports memorabilia auctions
- Golf memorabilia auctions
- Rock n’ roll memorabilia
- Art pottery
- Antique paintings
- Folk art, including antique weathervanes, cavings, business signs, and gameboards
- Baseball cards
- Football memorabilia
- Antique cars
- Advertising signs
- Antique & Vintage Advertising Signs
- Hotel collectibles auctions
- Transportation memorabilia (railroad, nautical, motorcycle, and other collectibles)
- Holiday collectibles (e.g. Halloween, Christmas, and 4th of July)
- Pinback button auctions
- Antique sampler auctions
- Vintage posters
- Mid-Century Modern
- Antique telephone auctions
- Space memorabilia auctions
- Paper money auctions
- Neon sign & lighted sign auctions
At other specialty auctions several types of collections might be sold. At those multi-interest auctions we’ve sold collections of items like:
- Antique paintings by listed artists
- Antique and vintage posters
- Antique and vintage advertising signs
- Historical memorabilia
- Wartime memorabilia, including from WWII and the Civil War
- Militaria, including uniforms, badges, and medals
- 1960’s and earlier baseball cards
- 1960’s and earlier comic books
- Breweriana