About Estate Sales and Liquidations

We serve individuals, families, estate trustees, executors and attorneys. We are committed to helping people with the arduous and emotional task of liquidating personal property. We are a staff of caring professionals. We conduct our sales in a speedy and efficient manner with the goal of obtaining for you, our client the highest possible prices.

Here’s What We Offer: • FREE appointment/consultation to discuss the best means of liquidating your personal property. There are a variety of ways to liquidate personal property, aside from the traditional on-site estate sale. Let us explore the options with you. • FREE appraisal/evaluation of items by a certified and experienced appraiser should you choose our firm to liquidate your property. (Written appraisals for tax/estate/donation purposes are available on a separate fee schedule.) • FREE advertising of your estate sale in a variety of venues. (Antique News Publications, Local Newspapers, and Online Ad Services such as Craigslist, Fogster and Ebay.) • FREE promotion, we promote your sale on our website in addition to advertising. We also prominently place signs guiding people to the sale. • FREE credit card processing. Sometimes, a sale would be lost if the customer couldn’t pay with a credit card. We never want our clients to lose a sale due to their inability to accept all types of payment. Our company absorbs the high cost of credit card processing and you benefit from increased sales. • Event hotline and email newsletter: We have a number where the public may call to ascertain information on our upcoming sales and we also regularly send out information in our online newsletter and daily blog. • We work on commission. It is in both our best interests to garner the maximum prices for your merchandise while still maintaining its salability. • We will sell everything possible from the muffin papers in the kitchen cabinet to the family car in the garage. • We conduct on-site or online estate sales. Sometimes due to inclement weather it would better serve our clients to have an online estate sale. (Ask us for our flyer detailing both.) • We give you a clear list letting you know which items sold and for how much and you’ll have your check by Certified Mail within 14 days of the close of the sale. • Items not sold, if salable will be picked up and donated to a local charity. • Broom-Clean, we will leave your home clean and free of debris generated from the sale. If you require additional removal or clean-out of non-salable items we offer clean-out services.

The Do's and Don'ts Before Downsizing or Liquidating an Estate

Do’s and Don’ts Before An Estate Sale

• DO NOT, DO NOT throw anything away. Even if you think that old Hershey’s chocolate box holding dad’s nails in the garage is nothing but rubbish, LEAVE IT BE!!! You would be surprised at how many times we’ve had a buyer come looking for a specific item only to be told by the owner that it had been thrown out. Please do not clean or throw out anything. We are professionals and know what buyers are looking for as well as how to best clean and present the items to potential buyers.
• Do NOT sell anything prior to the estate sale or have your own yard sale without first consulting with an appraiser. We are professionals and know which items are valuable and which are not. We can liquidate the entire contents of the home quickly and efficiently without the emotional strain placed on the owners/family.
• Do NOT sell piece-meal to dealers. When doing this it allows the best pieces to go before the sale opens leaving the less desirable objects behind. This will deter buyers from even looking.
• Do Cover the property with insurance.
• Do tell friends and family about the sale and the dates available for shopping. If two or more family members want the same item leave it in the sale. The family member that wants it the most will purchase it from the sale and eliminate all of the fighting.

Victorian Floral Symbolism

A
• APPLE BLOSSOM - Preference, Better Things to Come, Good Fortune
• ARBUTUS - Thee Only Do I Love
• ARUM - Ardor
• ASPARAGUS FERN - Fascination
• ASPHODEL - My Regrets Follow You to the Grave
• ASTER - Symbol of Love, Daintiness, Talisman of Love
• ASTER (CHINA) - Fidelity, Variety, I Will Think of Thee
• AZALEA - Take Care, Temperance, Fragile, Passion, Chinese Symbols of Womanhood
B
• BABY'S BREATH - Innocence, Pure of Heart
• BACHELOR BUTTON - Single blessedness, Celibacy
• BALM - Sympathy
• BALSAM - Ardent Love
• BEGONIA - Beware, A Fanciful Nature
• BELLS OF IRELAND - Good luck
• BIRD OF PARADISE - Often given today from a woman to man as a symbol of faithfulness
• BITTERSWEET - Truth
• BLACK BRYONT/LADY'S SEAL - Be My Support
• BLUEBELL/BELL FLOWER - Humility, Constancy, Gratitude
• BROOM - Humility, Neatness
• BUCK BEAN - Calm repose
• BUTTERCUP - Childishness, Riches
C
• CACTUS - Endurance, My Heart Burns with Love
• CALYCANTHUS/CAROLINA ALLSPICE/SWEET SHRUB - Benevolence
• CALLA LILY - Magnificent Beauty
• CAMELLIA - Admiration, Perfection, Good Luck Gift for a Man, Gratitude
• CAMELLIA (PINK) - Longing
• CAMELLIA (RED) - You're a flame in my heart
• CAMELLIA (WHITE) - Adoration, Perfection, Loveliness
• CANDYTUFT - Indifference
• CANTERBURY BELLS/BELL FLOWER - Gratitude
• CARDINAL FLOWER/SCARLET LOBELIA - Distinction
• CARNATION (GENERAL) - Fascination, Devoted Love
• CARNATION (PINK) - I'll never forget you, Women's Love
• CARNATION (RED) - My heart aches for you, Admiration
• CARNATION (DEEP RED) - Alas! for my poor heart
• CARNATION (PURPLE) - Capriciousness
• CARNATION (SOLID COLOR) - Yes
• CARNATION (STRIPED) - No, Refusal, Sorry I can't be with you, Wish I could be with you
• CARNATION (WHITE) - Sweet & Lovely, Innocence, Pure Love, Woman's Good Luck Gift
• CARNATION (YELLOW) - Disapointment, Rejection
• CATCHFLY (RED) - Youthful Love, I Fall Victim
• CATTAIL - Peace, Prosperity
• CATTLEYA - Mature charms
• CEDAR - I live but for thee, Think of Me
• CELANDINE/PILEWORT/FIGWORT - Future Joy
• CHAMOMILE/GOLDEN MARGUERITE/ANTHEMIS - Energy in Action
• CHERRY BLOSSOM (SINGLE) - Education
• CHICKWEED - I Cling to Thee
• CHICORY - Frugality
• CHRISTMAS ROSE/HELLEBORUS - Relieve My Anxiety
• CHRYSANTHEMUM (GENERAL) - Abundance & Wealth,
• Cheerfulness, You're a wonderful friend
• CHRYSANTHEMUM (RED) - Love
• CHRYSANTHEMUM (WHITE) - Truth
• CHRYSANTHEMUM (YELLOW) - Slighted Love
• CINQUEFOIL - Beloved Child
• CLEMATIS - Artifice (ingenuity)
• CLOVER (FOUR-LEAF) - Be Mine
• CLOVER (WHITE) - Think of Me
• CLOVER (RED) - Industry
• COLCHICUM (MEADOW SAFFRON) - My Best Days Fled
• COLUMBINE (PURPLE) - Resolved to Win
• COLUMBINE (RED) - Anxious
• COMPASS FLOWER - Faith
• CONVOLVUS MINOR/BINDWEED - Uncertainty
• CORCHORUS - Impatience of Happiness
• COREOPSIOS - Always Cheerful
• CORNFLOWER - Delicacy, refinement,
• CORONILLA/CROWN VETCH - Success to You
• COWSLIP - Rusticity, Winning Grace, Healing, Youth, Pensiveness
• COXCOMB - Foppery, Unfading Love
• CROCUS - Cheerfulness, Abuse not, Gladness
• CROWN IMPERIAL/FRITILLARIA - Majesty
• CYCLAMEN - Resignation and Good-Bye
D
• DAFFODIL - Regard, Unrequited Love, Sunshine, Respect, The sun shines when I'm with you
• DAFFODIL (YELLOW ) - Chivalry
• DAHLIA - Dignity and Elegance, Forever Thine
• DAISY - Innocence, Loyal Love, I'll Never tell, Purity, Beauty
• DAISY OX-EYE - Patience
• DAISY (RED) - Beauty Unknown to Possessor
• DANDELION - Faithfulness, Happiness, Love's oracle
• DAPHANE CNEORUM/ROSE DAPHANE - I Desire to Please
• DAPHANE ODORA/WINTER DAPHANE - I Would Not Have You Otherwise
• DRACAENA/DRAGON'S BLOOD/DRAGON LILY - Inner Power
• DEAD LEAVES - Sadness
• DELPHINIUM - Big-Hearted, Fun
• DILL - Lust
• DIOSMA - Your Simple Elegance Charms Me
• DOG ROSE - Pleasure and Pain
• DOGWOOD (FLOWERING) - Am I Indifferent to You?
• DRAGON ROOT/GREEN DRAGON (Arum draconium) - Ardor

E
• EDELWEISS/ALPINE CUDWEED - Daring, Courage, Noble Purity
• EGLANTINE/SWEET-BRIAR/ROSA EGLANTARIA - Poetry, I Wound to Heal
• ELDER FLOWER - Zeal
• ENDINE - Frugality
• EPIGAEA, REPENS/MAYFLOWER/TRAILING ARBUTUS - Budding
• EUPATORIUM/HARDY AGERATUM - Delay
• EREMURUS - Endurance
• EUPHORBIA - Persistence
• EVERLASTING - Never Ceasing Memory
F
• FERN - Magic, Fascination, Confidence, Shelter
• FERN (MAIDENHAIR) - Secret bond of love, Discretion
• FERN (ROYAL) - Reverie
• FILBERT - Reconciliation
• FIR - Time
• FLAX - Domestic Symbol
• FLORA'S BELL - Without Pretension
• FLOWERING REED - Confide in Heaven
• FORGET ME NOT - True Love, Memories
• FORSYTHIA - Anticipation
• FOXGLOVE/FAIRY THIMBLES/DEAD MEN'S BELLS - Stateliness, Youth
• FOXTAIL GRASS - Sporting
• FRAXINELLA/CULTIVATED DITTANY/GAS PLANT - Fire
• FREESIA - Innocence, Trust
• FUCHSIA (SCARLET) - Confiding Love, Taste
• FURZE - Love for All Occasions
G
• GARDENIA - You're lovely, Secret love, Purity, Refinement
• GARLIC - Courage, Strength, Get well, Ward Off Evil & Illness
• GENETIAN (FRINGED) - Intrinsic Worth, I Look to Heaven, Autumn
• GENTIAN (CLOSED) - Sweet Be Thy Dreams
• GERANIUM - True Friend, Stupidity, Folly
• GERANIUM (APPLE) - Present Preference
• GERANIUM (IVY) - Your Hand for Next Dance
• GERANIUM (LEMON) - Unexpected Meeting
• GERANIUM (NUTMEG) - I Expect a Meeting
• GERANIUM (OAK-LEAVED) - True Friendship, Lady, Deign to Smile
• GERANIUM (PENCILED) - Ingenuity
• GERANIUM (ROSE) - Preference
• GERANIUM (SCARLET) - Consolation, Melancholy
• GERANIUM (SILVER-LEAF) - Recall
• GERBERA - Innocence
• GLADIOLI - Generosity, I'm sincere, Flower of the gladiators
• GLOBE AMARANTH - Unfading Love
• GLOXINIA - Love at first sight
• GINGER - Strength
• GOLDEN-ROD - Be cautious, Encouragement
• GOOSEBERRY - Anticipation
• GOOSEFOOT - Goodness
• GORSE - Endearing Affection
• GRASS - Submission
• GRASS/CITRONELLA/CAMEL GRASS/LEMON GRASS/GINGER
• GRASS - Homosexual Love
• GUELDER ROSE/SNOWBALL - Winter
H
• HAREBELL/CAMPANULA - Humility, Grief
• HEART'S EASR/PURPLE/JOHNNY JUMP UP - You Occupy My Thoughts
• HEPATICA (Anemone nobilis) - Confidence
• HEATHER (LAVENDER) - Admiration, Solitude
• HEATHER (WHITE) - Protection, Wishes will come true
• HELIOTROPE - Devotion
• HENBANE - For Males to Attract Love from Females
• HIBISCUS - Consumed by Love, Delicate Beauty
• HOLLY - Defense, Domestic Happiness, Am I forgotten
• HOLLYHOCK - Fruitfulness
• HOLLYHOCK (WHITE) - Female Ambition
• HONESTY/LUNARIA/DOLLAR PLANT/MONEY PLANT - Sincerity
• HONEYFLOWER - Sweet, Secret love, Generous Affection, Sweetness of Disposition
• HONEYSUCKLE - The Bond of Love
• HONEYSUCKLE (CORAL) - I Love You
• HOUSTONIA/BLUET/QUAKER LADIES - Content
• HOYA/WAX PLANT - Sculpture
• HUCKLEBERRY - Faith, Simple Pleasures
• HYACINTH (GENERAL) - Games & Sports, Rashness, Flower dedicated to Apollo
• HYACINTH (BLUE) - Consistency
• HYACINTH (PURPLE) - Sorry, Please forgive me, Sorrow
• HYACINTH (RED OR PINK) - Playful Joy
• HYACINTH (WHITE) - Unobtrusive Loveliness, I'll pray for you
• HYACINTH (YELLOW) - Jealousy
• HYDRANGEA - Thank you for understanding, frigidity, heartlessness
I
• IPOMACA - I Attach Myself to You
• INDIAN CRESS/NASTURTIUM - Resignation
• IRIS - Faith, Wisdom, Promise in Love, Hope, Wisdom & Valor
• IRIS (YELLOW) - Passion
• IRIS (GERMAN) - Flame
• IVY - Wedded Love, Fidelity, Friendship, Affection
• IVY (SPRIG OF WHITE TENDRILS)- Anxious to please, Affection

J
• JAPONICA - Sincerity, Symbol of Love
• JASMINE (INDIAN) - Attachment
• JASMINE (SPANISH) - Sensuality
• JASMINE (YELLOW) - Modesty, Grace, Elegance
• JASMINE (WHITE) - Amiability
• JERUSALEM OAK - Your Love is Reciprocated
• JONQUIL - Love Me, Affection Returned, Desire, Sympathy
K
• KENNEDIA - Intellectual Beauty
L
• LADY'S SLIPPER - Win me, Capricious Beauty
LANTANA - Rigor
• LARKSPUR - Levity, An Open Heart, Lightness
• LAURISTINUS - Cheerful in Adversity
• LAVENDER - Love, Devotion,
• LEMON BLOSSOM - Fidelity in Love; I Promise to be True
• LILAC (GENERAL) - Beauty, Pride
• LILAC (PURPLE) - First emotions of love
• LILAC (WHITE) - Youthful Innocence
• LILY (GENERAL) - Majesty & Honor, Purity of Heart
• LILY (ORANGE) - Hatred, Dislike
• LILY (WHITE) - Virginity, Purity, Majesty, It's Heavenly to be with You, Youth
• LILY (YELLOW) - I'm Walking On Air, False, Gay, Gratitude
• LILY (CALLA) - Beauty
• LILY (DAY) - Coquetry, Chinese Emblem For Mother
• LILY (EUCHARIS) - Maiden Charms
• LILY (TIGER) - Wealth, Pride, Prosperity
• LILY OF THE VALLEY - Sweetness, Tears Of The Virgin Mary, Happiness, Humility
• LIVERWORT - Confidence
• LOVE IN A MIST - You Puzzle Me
• LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING/AMARANTHUS - Hopeless, Not Heartless, Desertion
• LOTUS - Estranged love, Forgetful of the Past
• LUCERNE - Life
• LUNGWORT - Thou Art My Life
• LUPINE - Imagination
• LYCHNIS/CAMPION/MALTESE CROSS - Religious Enthusiasm
M
• MAGNOLIA - Nobility, Perseverance, Nobility
• MAGNOLIA (CHINESE) - Love of Nature
• MALLOW - Delicate Beauty, Sweetness
• MARIGOLD (COMMON) - Pretty Love, Sacred,Affection, Caress, Sorrow
• MARJORAM - Joy, Happiness
• MARVEL OF PERU/FOUR O' CLOCK - Timidity
• MEADOW SAFFRON - My Best Days Are Gone
• MIGNONETTE - Your qualities Surpass your Charms, Health
• MEZEREON - Desire to Please
• MILK VETCH - Your presence softens my pain
• MIMOSA - Secret Love
• MINT - Virtue
• MISTLETOE - Kiss me, Affection, Difficulties, Sacred plant of India,
• MONKSHOOD - Beware, Danger is near
• MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED - Simplicity
• MORNING GLORY - Affection
• MOSS - Maternal Love, Charity
• MOTHERWORT - Secret Love
• MOONWORT/HONESTY - Forgetfulness
• MUGWORT/WORMWOOD - Tranquility, Happiness
• MULLEIN - Good Nature
• MYRTLE - Love, Joy, Hebrew Emblem of marriage
• MYRTLE (WAX) - Discipline, Instruction
N
• NARCISSUS - Formality, Stay As Sweet As You Are
• NASTURTIUM - Conquest, Victory In Battle
• NUTS - Stupidity
O
• OAK LEAVES - Bravery
• OLEANDER - Caution
• OLIVE BRANCH - Peace
• ORANGE BLOSSOM - Innocence, Eternal Love, Marriage, Fruitfulness
• ORANGE, MOCK - Deceit
• ORCHID - Love, Beauty, Refinement, Chinese Symbol for Many Children, Thoughtfulness
• ORCHID (CATTLEYA) - Mature Charm
P
• PALM LEAVES - Victory & Success
• PANSY - Merriment, Thoughts (You Occupy My Thoughts)
• PARSLEY - Useful Knowledge
• PASSION FLOWER - Faith, Religious Fervor
• PASQUE FLOWER - Unpretentious, You Have No Claims
• PEAR - Affection
• PEACH BLOSSOM - I am your Captive
• PEONY - Shame, Happy Marriage, Compassion, Bashfulness
• PEPPERMINT - Cordiality
• PERIWINKLE/VINCA/MYRTLE - Early Recollections, Pleasures of Memories, Sweet Memories
• PETUNIA - Your Presence Soothes Me
• PHEASANT'S EYE/ADONIS - Sorrowful Memories
• PHLOX - Our souls are united, Unanimity
• PIMPERNEL/POOR MAN'S WEATHER GLASS - Change
• PINE - Hope, Pity
• PINK- Pure Affection
• PINK (MOUNTAIN) - You Are Aspiring
• POPPY (GENERAL) - Eternal Sleep, Oblivion, Imagination
• POPPY (RED) - Pleasure
• POPPY (WHITE) - Consolation
• POPPY (YELLOW ) - Wealth, Success
• POMEGRANATE FLOWER - Elegance
• PRIDE OF CHINA - Dissension
• PRIMROSE - I Can't Live Without You, Woman
• PRIMROSE (EVENING) - Inconstancy
• PRIMROSE (RED) - Unpatronized Merit
• PRINCE'S FEATHER - Unfading Love
• PUSSY WILLOW - Motherhood
Q
• QUAKING GRASS - Agitation
R
• RAGGED-ROBIN - Wit
• RANUNCULUS - I am Dazzled by your Charms
• REEDS - Music
• RHUBARB - Advice
• RHODODENDRON - Danger, Beware, I am Dangerous
• ROSE (BRIDAL) - Happiness
• ROSE (BURGANDY) - Unconscious Beauty
• ROSE (CHRISTMAS)- Relieve my anxiety
• ROSE (CORAL) - Desire
• ROSE (DAMASK) - Freshness, Persian Ambassador of Love
• ROSE (DARK CRIMSON) - Mourning
• ROSE (DOG) - Pleasure & Pain
• ROSE (GREEN) - I am from Mars
• ROSE (HIBISCUS) - Delicate, Beauty
• ROSE (LEAF) - You may Hope
• ROSE (LAVENDER) - Enchantment
• ROSE (ORANGE) - Fascination
• ROSE (PINK) - Perfect Happiness, Secret Love, Grace & Sweetness, Indecision
• ROSE (DARK PINK) - Thankfulness
• ROSE (PALE PINK) - Grace, Joy
• ROSE (PEACH) - Immortality, Modesty
• ROSE (RED) - Love, I love you, Respect, Beauty
• ROSE (DEEP RED) - Bashful, Shame
• ROSE (TEA) - I'll Remember - Always
• ROSE (THORNLESS) - Love at first sight, Early Attachment
• ROSE (WHITE) - Innocence, Purity, Humility, I am Worthy of You, Secrecy, Silence
• ROSE (WHITE & RED TOGETHER) - Unity, Flower Emblem of England
• ROSE (WHITE-DRIED) - Death is Preferable to Loss of Virtue
• ROSE (YELLOW) - Joy, Jealousy, Friendship (one yellow rose with 11 red ones means love & passion)
• ROSEBUD - Beauty & Youth, A Heart Innocent of Love
• ROSEBUD (RED) - Pure & Lovely
• ROSEBUD (WHITE) - Girlhood, Heart Ignorant of Love
• ROSEBUD (MOSS) - Confessions of Love
• ROSES (Bouquet of full bloom) - Gratitude
• ROSES (Single full bloom) - I truly love you, Simplicity.
• ROSES (GARLAND or CROWN OF) - Beware of Virtue, Reward of Merit, Symbol of Superior Merit
• ROSE (MUSK CLUSTER) - Charming
• ROSE-OF-SHARON - Consumed by Love
• ROSEMARY - Remembrance
• RUSH/HORSE-TAIL - Docility
S
• SAGE - Wisdom, Great Respect, Speedwell Female Fidelity
• SATIN-FLOWER - Sincerity
• SENSITIVE PLANT - Timidity
• SHAMROCK - Lightheartedness
• SLOE - Difficulty, AusteritySMILAX - Loveliness
• SNAPDRAGON - Gracious Lady, Strength
• SNOWBALL - Thoughts of Heaven
• SNOWDROP - Hope, Consolation
• SPEARMINT - Warm Sentiment
• SPIDER FLOWER - Elope with me
• SOLIDAGO - Success
• STAR OF BETHLEHEM - Atonement, Reconciliation
• STARWORT - Welcome to a Stranger
• STEPHANOTIS - Marital Happiness, Desire to Travel
• STOCK- Bonds of Affection, Promptness, You'll Always Be Beautiful to Me
• STONECROP - Tranquility
• STRAW FLOWER - Agreement
• STRAW (BROKEN) - Broken agreement
• SYTINGIA/MOCK ORANGE/LILAC - Memory
• SUNFLOWER (TALL) - False riches, Pride
• SUNFLOWER ( DWARF) - Adoration
• SWEETPEA - Good-by, Departure, Blissful Pleasure, Thank You for a Lovely Time
• SWEET-SULTAN - Felicity, Happiness
• SWEET-WILLIAM - Grant me one smile, Gallantry
T
• TEASEL (Dipscaus) - Misanthropy
• THORNAPPLE - I dreamed of thee
• THRIFT (ARMERIA) - Sympathy
• TRAVELER'S JOY - Rest, Safety
• TRUMPET FLOWER/ANGEL'S TRUMPET/DATURA - Separation
• TULIP (GENERAL) - Perfect Lover, Fame, Flower Emblem of Holland
• TULIP (RED) -Believe me, Declaration of Love
• TULIP (VARIEGATED) - Beautiful eyes
• TULIP (YELLOW) - There's Sunshine In Your Smile
• TURNIP - Charity
V
• VALERIAN - Accommodating Disposition
• VENUS FLYTRAP - Caught at Last
• VENUS' LOOKING GLASS - Flattery
• VERBENA - Pray for me, Sensibility
• VERONICA SPEEDWELL - Fidelity
• VERVAIN - Enchantment
• VINE - Intoxicating
• VIOLET - Modesty, Virtue, Affection
• VIOLET (BLUE) - Watchfulness, Faithfulness, Love
• VIOLET (WHITE) - Let's Take A Chance On Happiness
• VIRGIN'S BOWER/CLEMATIS - Filial Love (Filial: referring to a son or daughter)
• VISCARIA - Will You Dance With Me?
W
• WALL FLOWER/GILLY FLOWER - Faithful in Adversity, Fidelity, Lasting Beauty
• WINDFLOWER - Sincerity, Symbol of Love
• WINTERGREENS - Harmony
• WISTERIA - Welcome
• WITCH HAZEL - A spell
• WOLFBANE/ACONITE/TURK'S CAP/FRIAR'S CAP/BEAR'S FOOT - Misanthropy, Chivalry, Knight
• WOODBINE - Fraternal Love
• WORMWOOD/ARTEMISIA - Absence, Do not be discouraged
Y
• YARROW - Cure for heartache
Z
• ZEPHYR FLOWER- Sincerity, Symbol of Love
• ZINNIA (MAGENTA) - Lasting Affection
• ZINNIA (MIXED) - Thinking (or in memory) of an Absent Friend
• ZINNIA (SCARLET) - Constancy
• ZINNIA (WHITE) - Goodness
• ZINNIA (YELLOW) - Daily Remembrance

Alphabetical Listing Courtesy of Victorian Bazaar

Johan Viktor Aarne

Johan Viktor Aarne was born in Tampere, Finland in 1863. He was an acclaimed gold-silversmith who worked both in Finland and for Faberge in Russia. He did his apprenticeship with Johan Erik Hellsten. Hellsten was a gold-silversmith in Tampere Finland. Aarne became a journeyman in Hameenlinne in 1880. Aarne worked in August Wilhelm Holmström's Faberge studio for ten years between 1880-1890. He returned to Tampere in 1890 to obtain the title of Master and stayed there in his own studio for a year before returning to Russia. Between 1891 and 1904 he worked for Faberge in St. Petersburg. During this time period he used his Cyrillic signature, BA. In 1904 he sold his workshop to Karl Gustaf Hjalmar Armfeldt. Aarne returned to Finland and opened a successful workshop which he ran for over 30 years. During this time period he used the signature of J.V.A. He passed away in Vyborg, Finland in 1934. Johan Viktor Aarne is most renowned for his enameled and bejeweled photo frames.

The Do's and Don'ts Before Downsizing or Liquidating an Estate

Do’s and Don’ts Before An Estate Sale

• DO NOT, DO NOT throw anything away. Even if you think that old Hershey’s chocolate box holding dad’s nails in the garage is nothing but rubbish, LEAVE IT BE!!! You would be surprised at how many times we’ve had a buyer come looking for a specific item only to be told by the owner that it had been thrown out. Please do not clean or throw out anything. We are professionals and know what buyers are looking for as well as how to best clean and present the items to potential buyers.
• Do NOT sell anything prior to the estate sale or have your own yard sale without first consulting with an appraiser. We are professionals and know which items are valuable and which are not. We can liquidate the entire contents of the home quickly and efficiently without the emotional strain placed on the owners/family.
• Do NOT sell piece-meal to dealers. When doing this it allows the best pieces to go before the sale opens leaving the less desirable objects behind. This will deter buyers from even looking.
• Do Cover the property with insurance.
• Do tell friends and family about the sale and the dates available for shopping. If two or more family members want the same item leave it in the sale. The family member that wants it the most will purchase it from the sale and eliminate all of the fighting.

Tatting...A Nearly Lost Art

Tatting is a technique to make lace. It is a beautiful handmade product that can be used on anything that you would normally use lace on. It can also be used by itself for doilies. Beautiful and sadly a nearly lost art.