Built for executors and families
Settling an estate usually means dealing with a house full of items nobody can value, on a deadline, often from another city. That is precisely the situation our mail-in model was built for. You don't need to identify anything, sort anything or drive anywhere: photograph what's there, send one form, and get one written offer covering the whole lot, with every item listed.
We buy estates in bulk, and bulk is where the value is
Buyers who cherry-pick take the two best rings and leave the family to dispose of everything else. We do the opposite: we want the entire lot, jewellery, silverware, coins, watches and bullion together, because volume is our business. One transaction, one itemized offer, one payment, and nothing left over to deal with.
- Complete jewellery boxes: gold, silver, the tangled and the broken
- The silver cabinet: flatware sets, tea services, serving pieces
- Coin accumulations: albums, tins and safety-deposit boxes of coins
- Watches, dental gold, bullion and anything else precious-metal
The carve-out: sell the metals before the liquidators arrive
Estate liquidation companies earn their keep on houses full of furniture, tools and general contents. But their fee stack, seller's commission, buyer's premiums that suppress bids, and tax on all those fees, can consume up to half the value of the estate's most valuable, easiest-to-price items: the gold, silver and coins.
The smarter sequence, and the one we help families run, is a carve-out. We appraise the precious metals within the estate first, from photos or an in-person visit, and make a firm written offer on the jewellery, silverware, bullion and coin collections. Those items get direct, spot-anchored pricing at 80–90% of value with zero commission and zero buyer's premium. Then the liquidators or auction house handle what they're actually good at: everything else in the house.
- More money on the items that matter: direct pricing instead of a 40–50% fee stack on the metals
- Faster: a written offer in days, versus consignment queues that run weeks or months
- Cleaner for the estate file: one itemized document showing exactly what was sold and for how much
- No conflict with your liquidator: they keep the whole-house job; the metals simply never enter their commission pool
Three ways to get an estate assessed
1. By mail: for most estates, photos plus our prepaid insured kit work exactly like any other assessment.
2. In person, locally: within about a one-to-two-hour drive of Napanee we can often come to the house, walk the lot with you, and assess on site. Tick the in-person box on the form.
3. Large estates anywhere in Canada: for major lots we build a custom plan around specialist insured shipping, and travel when the size of the estate justifies it.
No pressure, on a timeline that respects the situation
Your items remain yours until you accept the offer in writing, and the offer holds while the family or the other executors consider it. If you decline, everything comes back fully insured. Nothing about this process asks you to decide on the spot, because that's exactly the pressure we built this business to remove.
Common questions
We're not sure what's real and what's costume.
Perfect, don't sort it. Send photos of everything together; separating the valuable from the sentimental-only is the free part of our job.
Can you deal with multiple executors?
Yes. The written offer can go to all parties, and we don't need a decision until everyone has signed off.
How fast can this happen?
Photos to preliminary range: usually one business day. Mail-in lots typically complete within a week or two; local in-person visits can be faster.