Someone just asked me if we have any collections for sale, and I answered “Are you kidding? All we have is collections, since we closed our gallery in town when Covid hit!”
The problem is, selling the items one at a time would take years in a shop and even more when I have to photo every item, describe the item and post the item. It’s very time and effort consuming, and with the amount of material that sits in a storage unit in town doing absolutely nothing, I thought I’d trot them out here and try to categorize them in more or less reasonable divisions of interest, just to settle my own curiosity.
This is a GREAT time to be buying art and other collectibles, when currencies are relatively stable. At the worst levels of inflation and deflation you get riots.
At periods where a loaf of bread is a billion dollars, the only way to get any trade done is by barter, and we’re back where we were 10,000 years ago, in the New New Stone Age, or Neo-Neolithic.
In that scenario, art and collectibles tend to hold up pretty well, and cash doesn’t, not even silver coins, because number one, nobody knows that today’s silver coins aren’t silver, and the majority of people don’t care, and in addition, they don’t believe you when you tell them that silver isn’t silver and that silver is any more valuable than silver, if you’ve been keeping track.
Art does well, but not just any art. I’ll quote every major art dealer on the planet:
“There’s always a market for Great Art, but never a market for junk.”
Keep that in mind. I’ve spent many decades finding Legacy Collections, and the closing of the gallery offers me the opportunity to provide you with literally a store, shop or business practice of your own, with everything you need to operate it successfully, including personal instruction on how to sell it once you’ve got it in stock.
The collectible nature of each item depends entirely upon three factors:
- CONDITION
- CONDITION
- CONDITION
Sorta kidding, but that old collectibles saying does accurately reflect the attitude of any great collector or dealer. “It’s all about condition, condition and condition.”
However, there are other conditions that are mightily important, so the traditional trilogy goes like this:
- Scarcity — The more of them there are, the cheaper they’ll be.
- Desirability — The more that everybody wants one, the easier you can sell it.
- Condition — Even the smallest dent can take the price down a lot.
The bottom line of all of this is “Condition”, without which the other factors are basically worthless.
When collecting, each item is determined eachly, as it were, but when buying a collection or an entire storefront shop or online source, you save at least half the market value, and often even more, if you’re willing to take a chance.
A collectible is worth only as much as YOUR customer is willing to pay for it, and finding customers for really important art and collectibles is not easy.
For one thing, you don’t read the same magazines, like Forbes, and the right newspapers, like the Wall Street Journal.
Unless you’re a member of a Rich Man’s Country Club, you probably won’t get invited to their homes, where you can suggest an original Matisse for their entryway and an original Gauguin Tahitian masterpiece for the den and perhaps a JazzArt stage decoration for their three-story high main room with the double staircases and the Louis Quatorze crystal chandelier.
If you’re like most people, you’re rubbing elbows with people who buy art at the museum gift shop, and hang it on the wall with a couple of thumbtacks.
Normally, you’d be Shit Out of Luck, as they say in the country clubs of which I am a member, or used to be a member since I had to leave those clubs, on the basis that I refuse to be a member of any club that would accept me as a member.
But all that falls to the wayside at the advent of the internet.
Because of the internet, you can now rub electronic elbows with the Very Rich, although you won’t be aware of the interaction unless it results in a sale.
Most people don’t have anything like the resources we have as an organization, and there’s no opportunity to sell what you don’t have and can’t get.
Here is an opportunity to acquire an entire business or part of a larger business or even several businesses, along with all the inventory you need, plus advice on how to turn that into a livelihood.
It takes time and effort and money to accomplish this, but first you need inventiory, so here is a list of the items or collections we are offering today, slightly modified from the listings in 2021, leaving out the items or collections that have sold since then:
- EJ Gold Tattoo-Fashions Garments, Uniques – 1/1 — Many fine garments, leathers, suede jackets, vintage dresses, skirts, slacks, jeans, shorts, tee shirts, hats and more.
- EJ Gold Architectural Scale Murals — These are large paintings for very large homes of 10,000 feet or more and lots of height.
- EJ Gold Designer Video Games — The GoDD team will design a 3D GoDD game for you with your name on it. You can sell as many as you like. Price is negotiable and involves the work of four programmers over a period of about a month.
- Jerry Hodges Jurassic Paleontology Collection — $4,500.00 — an enormous collection of Jurassic and other fossils, including some very fine specimens, all of which are eminently salable, but I just don’t have the time. Includes color photos of all items, hundreds of them, from our exhibitions!
- 18k Gold Granulation Earrings Collection — includes all information necessary to learn how to get more of the granulation gold beads, and how to use them to make more earrings!
- Renoir Collection Works on Paper Including 1 Unique Original one of a kind, featured in the catalogue raisonne and guaranteed authentic — $1,400,000.00
- Ancient Faces Collection — Terra-Cotta heads and faces — $100,000
- American & German Abstract Expressionists Works on Paper — $12,000
- Schwaderer Collection — $8,000
- Hudson Valley Painters Collection — $8,500
- Cedar Bar Celebrities 1950s Vintage Paintings by E.J. Gold — $1,400,000
- Chagall Litho Collection — $12,000
- Miro Litho Collection — $12,000
- Picasso Litho Collection $50,000
- Dali 1934 Maldoror Etchings Collection — $50,000
- Matisse Collection — $18,000
- Rembrandt Collection — $120,000
- van Ostade Collection — $65,000
- Dutch & Flemish Masters — $155,000
- Ancient Reconstructed Jewelry in Solid 24k Gold Granulation made with ancient glass or stone, dated about 3,500-4,500 years ago. They were made for Isis Gallery on Wilshire & Rodeo Drive, and are worn by very famous women, some of them Royals in Europe and the Middle East. This collection is what are literally Crown Jewels, these unique and incredibly rare works of personal adornment cannot be obtained elsewhere for any price. Queen Noor owns one of my pieces. Price on Request.
- Ancient Glass and Stone Bead Collection — $3,200
- Degas Cancelled Etchings, RARE plates from the Vollard Collection — $220,000
- JazzArt Marsalis Performance Backdrops & Monumentals — $2,400,000
- Golden Age Comics — H.L. Gold Collection w/Jor-El Superman Story — $8,000
- Theodora van Runkle Islamic Gold Collection — $125,000
- The Donner Original Signed Unpublished Private Letters, Photos & Artifacts — $1,000,000.00 Absolutely unique collection of Donner Party private letters, unpublished photos and biographical Memorabilia with a COA directly from a descendant of the Donner family.
- The Spencerian Handwriting & Photo Collection —$100,000 — Unique historical documents from Platt Rogers Spencer, inventor of handwriting penmanship technique taught in schools for almost 100 years. His handwritten documents appear in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building. COA from a descendant.
- Legacy Lincoln Cent Collections with Keys Complete 4 Sets, $8,500 each.
- Legacy Ancient Jewish Coins — Mint Error Coins Very Rare — $8,000
- Ultra-Rare Greek Miniature Terra-Cotta Theater Masks & Statuettes of Actors, one as Socrates — $50,000.
- Artist’s Books Collection — $100,000.
- Chagall & Miro Complete Unplundered Catalogue Raisonne. $45,000
- Werkman Holocaust Museum Exhibit with Original Works on Paper — $8,000
- Claude Needham Stone Sculpture Garden — $450,000.
- EJ Gold Bronze Sculpture Collection — $450,000.
- EJ Gold Architectural Mural Installation — $350,000.
- EJ Gold Handpainted Original Terrarium Backdrops entire collection —$8,000.
- EJ Gold Designed Tiny House Furnished with original paintings on canvas, sculptures, ceramics and accessories, hand-built on your property, all codes and permits included. Your Tiny House is specially designed and fully engineered and professionally architected to be environmentally friendly with all the amenities but none of the hassle of a full-sized house. The Tiny House is built on your property, to your written approval. Special non-offgassing flooring, wallboards, paints and carpeting are used. Price including all artwork is only $2,440.000.16, the sixteen cents is for my agent.
- Domain Names — Fabulous four-character domain names, many very short very high traffic sites that are now quiescent since my retirement. Prices will vary, NO ownership, copyright or trademark violations are guaranteed, all sites are up and working, many gathering very good traffic and interest. These domain names are realistically and competitively priced from $1,000 to $1,500,000.
- Antiquarian Bookshop — Incredible collection of rare artist’s books, Price on Request.
There’s more, so much more, but I’ll get to it a chunk at a time. Meanwhile, I have a good idea how we can turn our side-hustles into hustles.
One way is to sell our artwork. Another is to sell our jewelry, fashions and creative handmades. Still another is to teach skills.
It’s up to you, but you should take the attitude of a designer — no price is too high for your stuff!
Perfumes are a big part of fashion. I’m selling off my entire perfume production along with a lot of very rare fragrances, for a tiny fraction of what I have in it. You’ll have to ask if you really want to know the price, because I still haven’t figured it out.
I have in my storefronts a complete gallery of WPA New York School art, hundreds of pieces of original art from the most famous NY School artists of all time, made DIRECT TO PLATE by each of the artists and signed in the plate with the rarest of signatures, and they’re for sale, with a huge potential for retail.
I also might have a few trillion coins for you to peddle, if you’ve got a LOT of time and numismatic inclinations.
There’s more. Stay tuned.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby