Reaching out to Silklist for help. I grew up as one of five people living in a house in Bangalore built for at least 10, with endless space for hoarding the knick-knacks of four separate households from three generations. Constantly dusty, a nightmare to clean and maintain, and stuffed with things from ceiling to floor.
Among other things, we have paper-thin painted and gilded bone china, lacquerware, ivory dolls and toys, carved wooden perfume boxes, obsolete (but working!) radios, cassette players, video cameras, cameras and goodness knows what else that I can't begin to describe, all piled up in chests or gathering dust on shelves. (This has arisen as a consequence of the quarantine, come to think of it. Opening chests restlessly and promising ourselves that THIS time, we will deal with all this.) We would like to sell them, if anyone is willing to buy them. Not throw them away, because then they're sure to be sold one way or another, except not by us. Has anyone here tried to do, this, too? I would be so grateful for advice on how to value items like this, especially in India. We're willing to sell outside India, too, except we don't know how and if we can. Thoughts? Pooja
