Estate Auctions

Get fair market value for estate contents, including coins, estate jewelry, paintings, collections, memorabilia, and many more items at our estate auctions.

When you need the help of an auctioneer it may be under difficult circumstances. An estate personal representative (formerly known as an executor) has to handle a wide variety of tasks that they need to handle. Central Mass Auctions will manage the process of selling estate contents for you.

We can identify items of special value that perhaps should sell at our antique auctions. Selling other items, such as fine furnishings, at an estate sale, where all items are priced and sold inside the home may be a better method for those items. Other services, like online auctions, work well in certain situations. We can offer suggestions on everything from donating items to hiring a company for a clean-out. With over 25 years of experience, our advice can help you during this difficult time. See our page on Estate Sales vs Auctions: What’s the Best Way to Sell Your Items?

John Deere front-loader tractor
Harley Davidson motorcycle

Although Central Mass Auctions  can identify which items are more valuable and should be sold at an estate auction and when an estate sale might be a better alternative, typically a combined approach is best, with some items going to auction and others being sold at an estate sale. We also offer estate appraisal services when needed.

We work with estate personal representatives (formerly known as executors), attorneys and accountants. A well-publicized, well-attended estate auction is a proven method to ensure that your antiques, jewelry, collections, rare and valuable items sell for fair market value. A personal representative has a fiduciary responsibility to maximize the amount that the personal property in an estate will yield. Estate auctions are a proven way for a personal representative to meet these obligations.

Central Mass Auctions has auctioned estate contents for clients in and near Boston and Central Mass, and throughout Massachusetts and New England.

We have traveled to Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida. Clients have shipped antiques for inclusion in our antique estate from Kentucky, Texas and Washington State, among others.


Aircraft engine
1969 Volkswagen Beetle
Honda snowblower

Our estate auctions are well-promoted. We have an extensive email and U.S. mail list. We promote items through our website, paid and free websites, and social media. Our goal is to get serious bidders to our auction hall to competitively bid for the quality pieces that we sell resulting in getting the highest prices for our consignors. We also provide estate sales and estate appraisal services.

Call Central Mass Auctions at 508-612-6111, or email us through the contact form below.

 

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