Expert advice for selling on Jasper52

Jasper52 experts in antiques, art, collectibles, and luxury curate auctions for more than 1,200,000 collectors.

Choose a Category for Auction Expert Tips:

Americana

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Period Weather Vanes
Patriotic Material including American Flags
Textiles including Quilts, Samplers, Needlework, Hooked Rugs
Folk Art Sculpture, Paintings and Other One of a Kind Items
Game Boards
Tramp Art
Cast Iron – Signs, Door Stops, Other Accessories
Whimsical Items
Signs Trade and Other
American Indian Blankets, Pots, Baskets and Misc.
Outsider Art
Decoys
Pottery
Ceramics
Stoneware
Carnival & Circus Items – Shooting Gallery Targets, Signs, Etc

To attract interest from expert collectors, please indicate in the description the:

Date
Size

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Americana Sales Results

Asian Art and Objects

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Authentic Japanese Antiques
- Meiji Period
- Showa Period
- Edo Period
Vintage or Antique Artwork/Works on Paper
- Scroll paintings
- Fan paintings
- Lacquer paintings
- Textile art
Authentic Southeast Asian Antiques
- Tibetan, Burmese, Nepalese, Vietnamese
- Sculptures, Buddhas, Thangkas, etc
Authentic Antique Ceramics – 19th century and older
- Vases
- Incense burners
- Plates

To attract collectors, please be sure to indicate the:

Country of origin
Date
Material

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Asian Sales Results

Books & Ephemera

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Classic Literature (Hemingway, Nabokov, Aesop’s Fables, Ulysses, A.A Milne Winnie the Pooh, etc)
Art Books, by well know artists & photographers
First Printing, First Editions, and Signed
Ephemera: Music and Movies, Political/Historical, Letters and Autographs

To attract collectors, please be sure to provide:

Photos of the front and back cover, spine, title page, and any interesting pages
Photos of any significant damage (e.g., wormholes, torn/missing pages, cover separation)

To view best selling books:

Book Sales Results

Decorative Arts, including Art, Porcelain, and Glass

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Glass from well known manufacturers or glass artists
Bronze sculpture
Lighting
Porcelain in high-end patterns
Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Mid-century Modern

Gravures and Black & White Photography

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Gravures & Photos from well known Photographers
- Including but not limited to Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Yousuf Karsh, Andre Kertesz, Edward Weston, Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Robert Frank
Gravures & Photos from no reserve to $200 reserve

To attract collectors, please be sure to indicate the:

Dimensions
Framing/mounting, if any
Age
Edition/run size

Japanese Woodblock Prints

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Prints by modern masters (names listed below)
Subject matter is of women (bijin), temple, or landscape
Prints by non Japanese artists with an established secondary market, like Paul Binnie, Paul Jacoulet, Kevin Clark, Tom Kristensen

Names: 18th-19th C:

Names: 20th-21st C:

Names: Non-Japanese Woodblock Artists:

To attract interest from expert collectors, please indicate the:

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Jewelry

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Signed Designer Pieces with boxes
Cartier and Tiffany pieces
Period/Vintage Jewelry, eg. Art Deco, Art Nouveau
Figural Jewelry

To attract expert jewelry collectors, please be sure to indicate in descriptions the:

Material specifics (e.g., metal purity)
Carat weights
Sizes (e.g., bracelet length, ring size)
Brand/Designer (e.g., Tiffany, Line Vautrin)
Date/Period (e.g., Art Nouveau, Edwardian)

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Jewelry Sales Results

Maps

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Pre 1900s maps, especially older and/or less common and in good or better condition,
Maps covering the Americas, especially North America and the Caribbean
Unique maps relating to Europe
Maps of Asia and China
Celestial maps

To attract collectors, please be sure to indicate the:

Date
Cartographer (if known)
Title of map
Size
Detailed condition

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Maps Sales Results

Prints

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Original impressions by modern masters and contemporary artists with established secondary markets
Prints “after” original impressions priced competitively
Other multiples like ceramics and watches

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Prints Sales Results

Religious Icons

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Ascension of Elijah Icons, Reserve $1800
Icons with little/no restoration
Icons with low reserves from $100 to $1000
Icons with detailed condition and photos of the back

To attract collectors, please be sure to include the:

Origin
Imagery title
Date/century
Dimensions
Detailed condition, any restoration notes
Photos of back and front

Rugs

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Hand-knotted, hand made, rugs – not machine made
Rugs that do not need repair and that can be used “as is”

To attract collectors, please be sure to indicate the:

Origin (city & country)
Material
Size/Format
KPSI
Condition

To View Best Selling Rugs:

Rugs Sales Results

Silver

These silver pieces are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Antique hallmarked silver pieces from the 18th to early 20th century, from small hand-held items to medium sized decorative pieces, specifically hollowware and flatware/flatware sets.
Unique vintage silver pieces from mid-20th century, in the Modernist and Mid-Century Modern styles

Region:

Russian silver
French silver
German silver (Goldschmidt)
Hungarian silver
Italian silver
Asia: chinese / archaistic / japanese / korean / persian silver

Makers & Styles:

Item Types:

*Item types*
figural silver / silver animals
silver miniature novelties
Rock crystal + silver
silver boxes, cigarette cases & ashtrays
silver coffee and tea pots/sets
silver enamel clocks
silver trophies
silver vases

To attract expert silver collectors, please be sure to indicate in descriptions the:

Silver type (e.g., 0.925 sterling)
Weight
Dimensions
Origin/date/period
Hallmark details

To View Best Selling Silver Items

Silver Sales Results

Toys

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Tin toys
Wind-Up Toys (working)
Vehicle Toys (including Trains)
Dolls
Japanese Robot Toys
Toys with reserves of $100 or less (ideally no reserve)

Tribal and Ethnographic

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

Native american
Pacific/oceanic
Pre-columbian

Watches

These are in HIGH DEMAND and will be promptly listed:

High quality watches with reserves equaling the expected auction price, typically under $500
20th century Military and Marine Timepieces in original condition, including pocket-watches, Reserve price $1-500
Designer Watches, Reserve price: $1000 and under. Especially those with the original boxes, instructions, and/or sales materials
1920s Style Watches: Rolex Oyster, Cartier Santos, Patek Philippe Tonneau, Gruen Tank Style, Minerva Chronograph, Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Ultra Thin Duoface Blue, Jean Dunand Shabaka, Longines Evidenza, Bell & Ross WW1, Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921, Gübelin circa 1925

To attract collectors, please be sure to indicate the:

Case size
Bracelet length
Movement type / jewel numbers
Brand
Date (very important to vintage collectors)
Model name
Condition (e.g., is it in working condition?)

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Watch Sales Results

Jasper52 Auction Experts

All auctions curated by experts with decades of experience at art and collectibles institutions like Sotheby’s, Christies, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Bauman Rare Books, and Guernsey’s, as well as degrees from the Tisch School of Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and Harvard University.