about us
At Found Stuff, we specialize in certified appraisals, estate sales, moving sales, liquidations, consignment and online auction sales. Our credentials include the Certified Appraiser designation from the Certified Appraisers Guild of America. With years of experience in the antique and appraisal professions, we offer real world value appraisals and professional estate liquidation services.
Founder of Found Stuff Estate Sales and Appraisals, Robin Caton, has been a full time antique dealer and certified appraiser since 1988. Her years of experience have given her a broad knowledge base of art, antiques, jewelry and collectibles. Robin grew up in the antique business, where she learned from her parents and grandparents, who owned antique shops in Oregon. Robin has personally owned several antique shops over the years including a 44,000 square feet antique gallery. Appraisals, antiques and estate/moving sales are her full-time business.
To insure the highest professional service to her clients, Robin attends additional training seminars and accreditation courses every year. Robin has completed training for the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, enacted to promote and preserve the public trust inherent in professional appraisal practice. The standards require that an appraiser must observe the highest standards of professional ethics in conduct, management, confidentiality and record keeping.
Found Stuff is comprised of a long-tenured, experienced team. The Found Stuff staff is focused on ensuring top notch service for you.
Found Stuff is licensed, bonded and insured in Oregon, Washington & California
Our Services
Certified appraisals
Only full-time, certified professionals can accurately provide real world values for your items.
Professional Estate/Moving Sales
Our team has years of experience and can get you top dollar for your items. We handle everything from beginning to end, including sorting, pricing, merchandising, advertising and conducting the sale. There are no up front fees and no hidden costs. Fees are based on a sliding scale, decreasing as total sales volume increases. We never buy at our sales; it's not ethical for us to price it and then buy it. For accountability, after the sale we provide you with a detailed computer generated report listing every item sold and how much it brought.
Online Auction Sales
Since 1996 our team has sold over 10,000 items on eBay and has been awarded the designation, eBay Power Seller.
Consignment Sales
In addition to eBay, the Found Stuff team sells at five or more antique shows each year, giving consigned merchandise maximum exposure for maximum return.
Found Stuff has a long history of satisfied clients and customers. References are available upon request. Found Stuff is honored to be listed on the Oregon Bar Association website as a preferred estate sale company.
rates
Appraisal Rates:
Verbal Appraisals
On site: $100 per hour
Written Appraisals
Charge by the hour for on-site time, research, and preparation: $125 per hour
Minimum: $250
Expert Witness
1-4 hours : $500
4+ hours: $125 per hour
Estate Sale Rates:
Found Stuff utilizes a sliding commission rate based on gross proceeds from the sale. The more we sell for you - the less you pay us! There are no additional charges.
Upcoming Estate SaleS:
Salem Estate Sale
Friday 9 - 4
Saturday 9 - 3
Sunday 10 - 2
Selling the complete contents of a three bedroom house and garage. EVERYTHING must go this weekend!
We have beautiful antique and vintage hand woven 100% wool Turkish rugs. Not just one or two, but over 20! Unfortunately, only one room size Kalim. The rest of the rugs are smaller area rugs, mats and 5 runners. Gorgeous patterns in a variety of colors. Our client hand picked all these years ago while living in Turkey!
19th century French Renaissance hand carved Black Forest cupboard with barley twist details, matching small server, fantastic Danish Modern Mid Century (MCM) teak wall unit that I believe is by Paul Hundevad (sorry - thing is huge and I haven’t had the manpower here this week to see if it’s signed on the back), two antique clocks, dozens of antique pieces of beautiful brilliant cut crystal including a punch bowl, antique Armand Marseille 971 bisque head German doll, Lladdro figurines from Spain - most have their boxes, 19th century dining room table with eight barley twist chairs and two newer custom made leaves, vintage brass pots and containers from Turkey, large set of Wedgewood Wild Strawberry dinnerware with some serving pieces, Franciscan Maytime dinnerware, over 100 piece set of Community silverplate with lots of serving pieces, antique large oak roll top desk, two antique oak 4 drawer filing cabinets, lots of antique photos, antique postcards including a few hard to find Halloween ones and some Santa ones, some antique Oregon picture postcards, small amount of jewelry and foreign coins, books, linens, hand and power tools, like new in the box Troy Bilt power cultivator, STIHL GTA26 battery operated hand saw, antique DuPont dynamite box, vintage Japanese glass floats, few pieces of yard art, Lustre Craft pots and pans, Filter Queen Princess II vacuum, glassware, kitchenware, wall decor and much more!
NO earlies. NO list. NO checks. We do accept debit, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express with a $20 minimum purchase. Cash is always welcome.
CONTACT US
FoundStuff
Phone: (503)784-6559
Email address: robin.caton@gmail.com
Business hours:
Monday-Sunday: 8:00am to 8:00pm