Inherited and mixed collections
For rooms, estates, and overlapping categories where the right answer may be keep some, document some, and route some.
Read first steps →The collection decision desk
A collection became your responsibility. See what you have before deciding what happens next.
What this is
Private, group-level decision support
Not an appraisal or purchase offer
Compensation disclosed before referral
One inventory / six possible decisions
You do not have to decide to sell today.
Five collection desks
You do not need to research every item.
The first job is to protect what matters, identify which groups deserve attention, and make the next reversible decision—not commit everything to one outcome.
Sports cards
Sort bulk from stronger material, decide whether grading is worth it, and compare consignment, auction, or direct sale.
Start with cards →Sports memorabilia
Preserve provenance, identify authentication needs, and prepare stronger pieces for specialist review.
Review memorabilia →Stamps and postal history
Keep albums and groupings intact while separating ordinary accumulations from material that may justify an auction specialist.
Start with stamps →Antique arms, firearms, and militaria
A controlled educational route with no private-transfer mechanism. Any future firearm referral would be limited to an appropriately licensed specialist.
Read safeguards →Decision guides
Choose the question in front of you.
Start with the collection’s immediate constraint: estate responsibility, scale, preservation risk, selling-route tradeoffs, or a category-specific first pass.
Executor first-pass checklist
Secure the property, map groups, preserve custody, and separate estate records from offers and appraisals.
Print the checklist →Large collection, group first
Map rooms, shelves, boxes, and coherent groups before deciding which items justify deeper work.
Use three passes →Preservation before intervention
Pause cleaning, separating, reframing, repair, and disposal while evidence and material risks are unclear.
See what to pause →Compare four selling routes
Use the same workload, timing, uncertainty, custody, fee, and contract questions across each route.
Compare the routes →Inherited sports cards
Preserve sets and organized groups, identify exact cards, and screen grading decisions before submission.
Start with card groups →Inherited stamps
Keep albums, covers, labels, certificates, and collector order intact before specialist screening.
Start with stamp groups →Private collection inventory
Start with boxes, binders, shelves, and groups.
Create a useful evidence packet without pricing every object. It saves only in your browser, asks for no contact information, and downloads as a CSV when you are ready.
How it works
Three steps before anyone asks you to sell.
Turn an unfamiliar collection into a small evidence packet and a defensible next decision.
Describe the groups
Record boxes, binders, shelves, rooms, or categories. Rough quantity is enough.
Protect the context
Keep notes, labels, provenance, and organized groups together. Flag anything fragile, uncertain, or regulated.
Choose what happens next
Keep, insure, review with family, donate or give, or compare a suitable selling route—group by group.
Clear boundaries
The value is the next decision—not a made-up number.
A purchase offer, auction estimate, appraisal, and realized sale are different. The guide explains why their incentives differ.
What we do
- Structure a first-pass collection inventory
- Flag preservation and evidence priorities
- Support keep, insurance, family, donation, and sale decisions
- Prepare a clearer specialist inquiry
- Disclose possible referral compensation
What we do not do
- Buy collections or hold inventory
- Issue formal appraisals or authenticate items
- Guarantee a value, buyer, or sale
- Rank a destination solely by payment
- Arrange private firearm transactions
Future referrals may earn a fee. It must be disclosed before an introduction.
No referral or introduction is active in this prototype. If routing is activated later, category, value band, geography, timeline, service model, and evidence must be evaluated before compensation is considered.
Read the routing and compensation standard
Some businesses may pay SellingCollectibles if an introduction becomes an accepted consignment, purchase, or sale. Payment does not guarantee placement and does not turn a triage result into an appraisal.
Begin before you clean or separate anything