A private collection · Offered directly
Decades of deliberate collecting — instruments, objects, coins, and curiosities that stopped me cold when I first found them. Each one described exactly as it is. Each one priced once, at the right number.
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On collecting & what it means to pass something on
There is a particular kind of object made before the world got fast. Built by hand, by people who assumed their work would outlast them — and were right. You can feel it the moment you pick one up. The weight is different. The fit is different. Something in it knows it has been somewhere.
I have spent decades finding these things. In estate sales, in back rooms, in the collections of people who didn't quite know what they had — and some who knew exactly. Every piece I kept taught me something. About craft. About restraint. About what it actually means for an object to earn its existence.
"I think of selling less as letting go, and more as finding the right next keeper."
Objects don't belong in the dark. A guitar sealed in a case is a quiet tragedy. A blade that never opens. A coin that no one handles. These things were made for someone's hands. That is the entire point of them — and the reason I'm offering them now rather than holding on forever.
When something leaves here, it leaves with everything I know about it. Where I found it. What I paid attention to. What it needs. I put it all in the description because that history is part of what you're getting — sometimes the most valuable part.
I list honestly. I price once, at the right number, without the theater of negotiation. The right person for one of these pieces isn't just a buyer — they're the next chapter in a long story. I take that seriously.
If you've read this far, you already understand what I mean.
Get in touch
Questions about a piece — its history, condition, how it was found, what it needs — ask anything. I would rather tell you too much than leave you wondering. No pressure, no sales pitch.
authenticandrare@gmail.com
Usually back within 24 hours.
Happy to meet in person. Let you hold it, play it, look it over. Cash deals welcome for local buyers.
Everything ships fully insured. Guitars double-boxed in hardshell. Heavy or fragile items go freight when needed. Worldwide.
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