About Consigning
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The Auction Process
Consigning an item, collection, or estate with Blackwell is straightforward and secure. Our public auctions on multiple online platforms let consignors see their items’ presentation, descriptions, and sale prices.
Step One: Evaluation
Blackwell examines items to determine if they’re suitable for our auction. If accepted, we provide estimate ranges after researching the pieces.
Step Two: Agreement
We itemize the accepted consignment and provide a detailed consignment agreement outlining our responsibilities.
Step Three: Preparation
Blackwell takes possession of the items, cleans, photographs, researches, and catalogs them. All items are insured against loss and damage.
Step Four: Selling at Auction
Blackwell operates on five online platforms: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Bidsquare, HiBid, and the Blackwell mobile app. About two weeks before the live auction, we upload the catalog with photos, allowing bidders to leave bids in advance. On auction day, our clerks monitor the platforms and bid on behalf of each audience, ensuring maximum exposure.
Step Five: Billing and Shipping
We invoice the winning bidders the next business day post-auction. Once paid, Blackwell or our third-party shipping partners send the items to the successful bidders.
Step Six: Settlement
Blackwell sends check payments (or ACH) to consignors, minus our commission, within 30 days of the auction (usually sooner).
What our Clients have to say:
Consignment With Blackwell Auctions:
We offer realistic market value estimates totally free of charge or obligation. Our commissions are competitive, and we don’t add fees for photography or storage or any of those other charges that make a seemingly low commission rate actually quite high. And we’ll work to ensure your items get maximum exposure so they can bring maximum prices.
Sometimes our clients are under time constraints or would simply prefer that we purchase their property outright. This is also an option we will discuss with you, depending on your circumstances.
If you are interested in finding out more about consigning or selling to Blackwell Auctions, please contact us at 727.546.0200 or email us. It would be most helpful if you sent images of the item(s) you’d like for us to look at.
Some of the items we take on consignment (or buy outright, depending on what works for you) include:
- Fine Art – Paintings, bronze sculptures, prints, photographs, old posters
- Gold and silver – If you have precious metals, we will help you realize the highest prices for it, period
- Jewelry – Fine gold and silver jewelry, diamonds, watches, and costume jewelry
- Coins – U.S. and world coins, gold and silver, rare coins, bullion
- Silver – Sterling silver flatware and serving pieces, some finer silverplate
- Pottery and Glass – Fine pottery, art glass, and other decorative items, Asian, European and American
- Collectibles – Old sports cards, stamps, militaria, old knives, lamps, golf clubs, books, fishing lures, figurines and more. Almost any kind of collection.
- Musical instruments – Guitars, brass instruments, violins, trumpets, any stringed instrument or woodwind … darn near anything but pianos or organs (but we’ll even help you figure out what to do with those)
- Firearms – Old and new firearms. We hold an FFL (Federal Firearms License) and will ensure that your guns are transferred to new owners safely and legally.
- Just about anything else – Cars, boats, RVs, motorcycles, houses … we’ve dealt with them all, and we’ll help you through the process of liquidating a single item, a collection or an entire estate.