How it works

We accept thousands of items. Just dispatch them using our free and insured postage labels or arrange your free home collection.

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The journey of your valuables

Send your box to us

Take your box to a local Post Office or arrange for it to be collected from your home. On entering our HQ, our logistics team will scan the barcode to log its arrival.

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Appraisal and offer

Our vintage valuers will carefully appraise your items, and then our friendly buying team will call you with an offer for everything. We'll send the money to your bank account within 24 hours of accepting our offer.

Preparing items for their next life

We'll review your items one more time and then prepare each piece to be photographed. Finally, we'll package each piece carefully before shipping it to its forever home.

Here's what happens to your items

After purchasing your antiques, we could sell them anywhere in the world. Our network spans auction houses, museums, schools and independent makers throughout the UK. With that in mind, our most common methods of rehoming are...

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Most items are prepared for online and offline auction houses as single pieces or bundles.

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Items that can't be fixed may be dismantled into individual components to restore similar pieces.

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If an item has historical value, we'll contact a relevant museum.

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