About This Forum

This snuff bottle community forum is dedicated to the novice, more experienced, and expert collectors. Topics are intended to cover all aspects and types of bottle collecting. To include trials, tribulations, identifying, researching, and much more.

Among other things, donations help keep the forum free from Google type advertisements, and also make it possible to purchases additional photo hosting MB space.

Forum Bottle in the Spotlight

Charll shared this beautiful Xianfeng (1851-1861) dated bottle depicting NeZha combating the Dragon King amongst a rolling sea of blue and eight mythical sea creatures.


Chinese Snuff Bottle Discussion Forum 中國鼻煙壺討論論壇
March 28, 2024, 06:06:54 am
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
 
  Home Help Search Contact Login Register  

How to Value Bottles for Sale from a Newbie

Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: How to Value Bottles for Sale from a Newbie  (Read 413 times)
0 Members and 5 Guests are viewing this topic.
forestman
Private Boards
Hero Member
***
Gender: Male
Posts: 826


« on: July 10, 2017, 12:28:53 pm »

Hi Oliver,

The simplest answer may be to let the market value your bottles for you. There are enough knowledgeable buyers watching Ebay that good bottles do achieve good prices. I would add that you might need to be known as a seller of better bottles to get the best prices.

It's a question of how much confidence you have to let the auction process work as opposed to trying to sell for a fixed price which may be set higher than is realistic or lower than it may achieve through the auction process. You can always set a reserve price.

The problem with comparing prices achieved by the major auction houses is that they can achieve premium prices which, had the same bottle been sold through a lesser auction house, wouldn't be achieved. There is also provenance to consider which can add considerably to the price achieved if it is solid and reliable.

A good source of prices achieved is through liveauctioneers which has records going back a number of years. What is interesting when you look through past prices is how varied they can be. You see crap selling for far more than it should and, probably to a lesser extent, good bottles going for less than they should. I guess some crap bottles can catch out the less knowledgeable buyer but more normally a smaller auction house with crap bottles at high estimates fail to achieve any bids.

Regards, Adrian.




Report Spam   Logged

Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by EzPortal