Hello,
I’m offering a bulk antique collection — travel-curated artifacts — gathered from world travels — for sale as a single lot.
Nearly every item is photographed and available at:
The collection includes a wide variety of pieces with strong resale appeal:
- Antique Church Pews & Dining Table
- Vinyl Records — 45s (with and without jackets), LPs with jackets, and 78s
- Pewter Collection
- Silver and Silver-Plated Items
- Salt & Pepper Grinders
- Global Stamp Collection
- Nutcrackers
- Historical Newspapers
- Antique Rug (10’ x 7’3″)
- Miscellaneous Antiques
- Video walkthrough available on the site
I am ideally looking for one buyer to take the entire collection. Pick up is available in Wyoming, MI, and delivery can be arranged.
Please visit the website to get a full look at what’s available, and don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or to discuss pricing. I’d love to find the right home for these pieces with someone who will appreciate their value.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you!
The Back Story
While visiting my mother in Garden Grove, CA, I was introduced to her neighbor across the street. We did a lot of tourist activities together, and I felt confident that my mother was in good hands with such a good neighbor nearby if the need ever arose. A few weeks after I returned to Texas, he called and asked if I wanted to come back and help him pack up both of his houses. He was moving because his lover, a male friend, had died, and he did not want to deal with everything on his own. He flew me in, and I stayed at my mom’s house across the street. In two weeks, one home and a cottage were packed up, cleaned up, and ready for the moving trucks. As we waited for the truck to arrive, he looked at me and said, “Connie, you can have whatever you want.”
To say the least, I was stunned. Having packed up these remarkable collections gathered during the world travels of a famous musical couple was just wow.
My mother had everything crated and shipped to my ranch in Texas. Not long after, I was diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer, which is rare and has a low survival rate. I eventually lost my ranch because I was so sick from chemotherapy and radiation that I could not function, much less work for an income. These beautiful pieces went into storage until I could get myself back on my feet. It took over five years, and I moved numerous times and lost almost everything in the battle to survive. But I did it. Six years later, I am in a small condo in Michigan, caring for my 86-year-old father, who has advanced dementia.
I do not know much about the couple who collected these items. I know he was a jazz clarinetist who traveled through Germany to perform with various groups and at solo events. I could not find anything while Googling because I do not know their names. I also know that the wife dealt with breast cancer because I found many clipped articles about promising research. I believe she was the one who dabbled in collecting these beautiful items during their world travels. Perhaps these pieces were even meant to find their way to me, given my own personal experience with breast cancer.
Included in the collection are hundreds of pewter pieces, numerous pepper grinders, some with and some without matching salt shakers, nutcrackers, and the most beautiful custom table and bench set made from old church pews that you will ever see.
I also picked up a unique collection of vinyl records from the mid-1980s that I found at a Texas property I flipped. I suspect the previous owner was a DJ, as these are not average records. Some are 45s, and some are 7-inch records; those are also featured here.