One piece, or the whole house.

What we buy

• Antique silver — tea and coffee services, trays and salvers, candelabra and candlesticks, bowls, pitchers and maker-marked hollowware. American, English and Continental. Monogrammed is fine. Good old plate too, priced as what it is.
• Furniture — 18th, 19th and early 20th-century case pieces, chairs, tables, desks and mirrors with good lines and honest wear. Painted, gilt and Continental pieces especially.
• Art — oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints; portraits, landscapes, still lifes and marine scenes; period gilt frames, even empty ones. More on art.
• Porcelain and glass — blue-and-white, export, Delft and faience, Continental and English porcelain, crystal and cut glass.
• Lighting, clocks and objects — lamps, sconces, chandeliers, mantel and bracket clocks, bronzes, boxes, books, garden ornament and the odd beautiful thing.

More detail on each: antique silver · antique furniture · paintings & art · porcelain, china & glass.

Jewelry, watches, gold, coins and bullion, diamonds, and sterling flatware or silver sold by weight are bought by our jewelry branch, Naples Estate Jewelry. If you have both, one visit covers everything.

How an offer works

We look at the piece — in the shop, from your photographs, or at the house — and tell you what it is and what we'd pay. The offer is in writing, it's explained, and it stands for a reasonable time so you can think it over. If we think a piece would do better at auction or on consignment, we'll say so, even though it means we don't buy it today.

If you accept, you're paid immediately and we handle pickup. No fees, no waiting for a sale, no storage.

Antique silver: tea services and hollowware

Silver is where we see the most confusion. Solid silver is marked — "sterling," "925," or a row of hallmarks — and an old, well-made piece is valued for its maker, its period and the quality of the work. Plated silver, "EPNS," "silverplate," and unmarked pieces are a different thing, though good old plate is still handsome and saleable. Weighted candlesticks are mostly filler, and are priced on their looks. Keep a service together — pots, tray, liners — and please, don't polish it first. More on the antique silver we look for, and how to read the marks.

House calls

For anything too large to carry or too much to move, we come to you: Naples, Marco Island, Bonita Springs, Estero, Fort Myers and Cape Coral, by appointment. For a whole house, see our estate services — the walk-through, the written evaluation and the plan for everything that isn't a straightforward sale.