Estate Auction Articles – By Wayne Tuiskula

Our estate sales services are offered throughout Massachusetts and surrounding states. But our services are more than just estate sales. We are also experienced antique dealers. We are licensed auctioneers and can sell items at auction.

Wayne Tuiskula

Wayne Tuiskula is the auctioneer and appraiser of Central Mass Auctions, Inc. of Boston and Worcester, Ma. He has over 20 years of experience in the antiques industry. He has had an interest in antiques and collecting from an early age. After college, Wayne worked full time in the software industry for nearly 15 years. In the late 1980’s he also started selling antiques. He formed a company that specialized in estate liquidation and assisted executors, attorneys, and others in finding the best channels to sell their items.

He was a dealer at the Brimfield Antique Show along with other New England antique shows. Wayne also conducted estate sales and managed an antique shop in Charlton, MA. He sold items using internet newsgroups prior to the creation of eBay and then became an early seller on eBay.

Wayne has been an appraiser at events at the Worcester Historical Museum, the Worcester Senior Center, and the Leicester Historical Society, along with many other civic and church groups. He designed and teaches the “Evaluating Your Antiques” class for the Worcester Public Schools “Night Life” Adult education program.

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