Limited Engagement Posting - Estate Sale of books and miniatures

This post will be deleted!   Fairly soon but not immediately.  These photos show the volume of miniatures and books at an estate sale in Sacramento, vast numbers of both miniatures and books.

Above, a lot of Dinky vehicles.

And more Dinky vehicles.

Miniatures.

Miniatures.

Miniatures.

Miniatures - box after box after box of unpainted Napoleonic miniatures, 25 or 28 mm, needs to be looked at to know for sure.: below.

More.

And more.

All those green boxes are Britains, many in true mint condition.

And all those red boxes are even more Britains.

And some more Britains - and other stufff.

And other stuff.

Some sort of cars.

Miniatures not in the garage.

Mostly colonials and WWI (German East Africa) that I will be sorting into a more marketable setup.  Again, like most of the stuff 25 or 28 mm.

Books, lots and lots and lots of books.

The Ospreys. Above.

Mostly, I think, 1/35th models.  Didn't look too close.

This one box by itself is in the $150 - $250 range, Britains.

By far, the largest part of the miniatures are Napoleonic, but also a lot Franco-Prussian and some other stuff like ECW.  A very small bit of 15 mm for SCW or FPW - unpainted.  Rather a lot of varied 54 mm figures, but mostly Napoleonic - as far as we could sort out.  Lots of Colonials which, as stated above, I will be sorting through - wrong scale for my own use.

The volume is just astonishing.  Mike O'Brien and myself will have access to just the miniatures, not the books (those have to await return of the family in May/June time frame).  

First there is a great need to sort figures before doing a lot of selling.  Just so very much stuff.  I am almost 8 hours from walking in to the collection and I'm still absorbing what I saw.  Yes, that much.

edits: A further note, there are a large quantity of painted figures of varied quality, 3/4 to 7/8 quality range, and almost none of the painted figures are based so easy to adapt to whatever system someone is using.

I can't speak to pricing but family, in general, is more interested in getting stuff sold than getting top dollar.  There are exceptions - like those Britains or the replica full-size MG42 ($800, half of original price apparently).  The Britains may be over half the total dollar value if the market can handle so much being flooded into it.  And the books - oh, my gosh, the books.  Apparently the deceased was in the used and rare book business.

I only acquired one figure - as part of a book buy so no idea at this time of per figure prices.  I do know that it will be about buying 'lots' of figures rather than picking through to just get a few figures you want.  That would take forever and diminish the value of the remaining figures - unfair to the family.  

One important word: Neither Mike nor I are going to be in the business of posting lists of what is there.  We might post broad statements but no specific lists.  You will need to come and see the collection for yourself.  

I, personally, might make an exception for the Colonial stuff but it is, relatively, a minor portion of the total - though there is a LOT of colonial figures, sizes vary.  Much in unopened packaging.

Last, the nephew and main point of contact is a miniatures gamer himself so not ignorant of the hobby and its realities.

       ...stay tuned!