hi guys welcome to another short video
by antiques arena my name is Walter
O'Neill and in this video I'm going to
talk to you a little on some ways you
can value your items as antique dealers
and the dealers of collectibles and
things we don't always know the value we
have a good idea from years and years
and years of experience as to what we've
sold stuff in the past and what we've
seen other selling things for and we do
tend to remember that but prices change
every single day what could be worth a
hundred pound today could be worth
twenty pound tomorrow so every time we
buy an item we have a certain amount of
research to do whether it's an 18th
century drinking glass the bronze
figurine a piece of porcelain it doesn't
matter now some of the ways I do
research obviously I have all my
specialist box know the books are
brilliant as in they'll help you
identify if something's real or if it's
fake and they'll tell you what to look
for on how to identify different things
so you don't need your box
parisa to be honestly it's not what you
can't find online if you do whatever dig
in so if you can't afford the books or
you upcome find the books you can get
90% your research online but once you've
got an item in you're confident it's is
real how did you go about volume in the
item there's a number of ways you can go
on to eBay some what i recommend you do
is you don't look at what people are
asking those people can ask the earth
while you'd always go up on advanced
settings and you look at soul prices and
then you look at the top and bottom and
the average and work out of there the
price the items apollomon then you have
people with websites like myself now we
tend to be specialists in the area I
I know wanted to
websites that deals purely in
eighteenth-century glass and the places
they achieve is unbelievable
I can never achieve anywhere close to
what they get purely because they are
specialist site and people got them
because they are specialists so they
were willing to pay more for the for the
help or for the authentication whichever
way you want to put it so you gotta be
careful when looking at other people's
websites while you looking for ideally
it's all prices you want to know what
people have paid for the items now you
can buy Millers or you can buy guides
price guides the only downside is as I
said prices change daily let's say for
example the Millers is printed at the
beginning of this year what's to say
what's worth 300 pound list at the
beginning when they print it it's still
worth 300 bum at the end 10 trends
change the prices change as with book
guides in the beginning I used to buy
book guides on bears work on weight on
store evil fingers on porcelains and he
would say this storybook figure produced
in such-and-such base such-and-such is
worth this much you'd never get half the
book value so where did you place your
like I'm not a ticket out to the market
so people just run away from here at the
same time you're not giving it away well
as they say one of the ways is looking
at the song lists on eBay
another would be to skull leave a Google
and finds sold items not selling items
but there is a third way and that is
using a website called the Salem
now the Salem is a really good website
gives you the actual prices sold in
auctions right throughout the country it
shows you the auction estimate the
description of photographs and then the
price achieved now I'm going to show you
a search in just a moment on the sale
owner show you just what you can do but
you can't just put wanna save them
because auctions as I'm already talk to
you in another video of our auctions
auctioneers tend to tape stuff in
at a price that well let's be honest
protects the auction house I watched a
bargain and this mornin
and to be totally honest with him she
valued a 19th century cranberry and
solid silver double-ended perfume bottle
for eight to ten pound hope you funny
she paid that for a burger and a cup of
tea let's have some common sense these
auctioneers are another time have put in
valuations on the staff a five and ten
pound and it's just not really it's not
it's not sensible so you can't always go
on the auctioneers guide but what you
got to do is you've got to take it you
got to look at the auction price is
achieved get an average look at ebay
sold prices again average and then you
have to come up with a happy medium that
gives you a good profit but also makes
you feel they're not giving the item
away and you know getting robbed so I'm
gonna bring the computer over now and
I'm gonna show you how to do a completed
search on ebay how to do a search for
the same item on the internet and show
you the comparison on the prices there
and then I'm going to pull up the sale
room and I'm gonna give you a comparison
on the prices of the three of them and
then hopefully you can get a rough idea
then on valuations and how I tend to
work it's a lot of things I say we buy
by Gatto by ie we know if something's
worth that money then ask him we may not
know the exact figure is gonna sell for
but we know if something's cheap enough
that is a profit on there so I hope you
find the video interested I'll do some
close-ups view now okay guys so what I'm
gonna do first is type in the sale room
which is the website and registered with
and you'll see they comes up first of
all now this website you can use for
online bidding at auctions you can use
for searching up and upcoming items if
you're a collector you can get your
price guide and so forth so for the
price guide which is what this video is
about
we come across here I'm obviously signed
end I'm already signed end this site is
five pounds sixty-five of its less than
six pound a month for this so it's value
it's well worth doing so you've got the
prices then the price guide first
example I'm going to search for an 18th
century rise into war fail now dwarf
failed glasses eighteenth-century
glasses is something I do a lot of so
now I felt that the results you come
here you can fill up the results
I want to know what the highest salt
prices are obviously we all want to
achieve the best money for our items so
as you can see estimate years one
hundred two hundred fifty price achieve
two hundred and fifty estimate here but
there's a group of eleven drinking
glasses than not and the only achieved
under neatly common so you work that out
thus you know cheaper you talking 14
pound the glass someone like that
thirteen body upon the glass single when
you but that looks like the flaw me form
is in the the Ryden or the Spyros on the
outside of the glass but they achieved
hundred and fifty therefore one but what
you gotta do is come down until you can
find a single this one here has a folded
foot I've talked to about folded feet on
glass before in my 18th century glass
guide so I'm gonna come down this fall
here pretty standard dwarf ales they
were 80 to 120 le achieved eighty-five
again you have a single it's all for ten
pound 2250 so this gives you an idea now
of the price range everything from a
Tanner up to my 80-foot 80-ton so let me
come across to ebay no free day I wanna
do
so this research again 18th century ride
the dwarf a Laplace the exact same
search now I'm going to look first of
all at asking prices there's your first
one there with a spiral in the body 29
pound there's another there and they 125
pound see what I mean about the there's
no comparison on a skin prices there
again another ride on dwarf ale 45 pound
same again 40 pound so the basic price
that a skin for this well there is a
Flannery form again I don't if you can
see it the actual ribbon or spiraling is
actually on the outside of the bowl if
you like is raised and we just saw one
of them achieve 150 and the auction that
asking 3 to 5 on you
the Rylan's standard drive-ins did ask
him as much as 120 150 and on the sale
room than as much as 10 pounds so what
we gonna do now is we're gonna scroll
down to sold listings down here on the
left hand side click on soul we want to
see what people have sold this one so
there's one sold at seventy six seventy
nine we come down we have one it's a
very mild one is normal are spiraling
with 29 pounds is 132 so
of those two now you do a rough idea you
can get 30 35 pound for arrived and will
fail
you could ask more but a realistic price
is going to be 35 40 pound now I what I
do now is go to Google and I'll run the
same search eighteenth-century aim there
we go to or fail glasses
and there we have it if they got any
prices on them right well private
website two hundred and fifty pound for
a dwarf ale 325 but that is a fly me
form one again like we just spoke about
there so fair enough with our one
standard 145 pounds so that's quite
realistic that's pretty much in line
with eBay prices this obviously you can
search anything these are the three
things I use to value my items so guys
they love it and as a dealer you'll go
out and you'll buy things and you'll buy
from experience and you'll know what
places you can achieve on a lot of
things but if you use the three three
things there the Google search the sale
room six pound month is so cheap is
unbelievable and it gives you access to
online auctions and everything else and
then you have the you got the Google the
online option and the based searches you
know comparison of the three and you're
gonna get an average valuation let's pay
to you onto the buyer as I say the key
point is to sell you want to make money
you don't want to lose money you don't
want to be stuck with the item for yours
so I hope this video has helped you I
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