However, something else is surprising - now many of our old Soviet things are really expensive. Collectors are ready to offer a round sum for such things - from several thousand rubles to several thousand dollars. So maybe it's worth taking a closer look at the old sideboard?

Crystal

Crystal vases and decanters seem to many a relic of the Soviet era. The Soviet people considered crystal an investment, so an incredibly large amount of it accumulated in apartments and in Russia it lost its value.

However, in the west it has become surprisingly popular. Europeans are looking for it in commission shops, and the mass market copies motifs in ordinary glassware. First of all, collectors are interested in pre-revolutionary crystal - its cost will reach up to 50-60 thousand rubles. Among Soviet products, blue or red crystal is the most interesting - products from it can be sold for up to 5 thousand rubles, and a whole set for 10-15 thousand rubles.

Dulevo porcelain and LFZ porcelain

Such figurines can be recognized by the stamps "Dulyovo" and "LFZ". At antique dealers, such items have risen in price significantly, and in Europe they are considered a rarity at all, although earlier such figurines could be found in every apartment. Now, the design of such figurines is copied, and new products are produced based on their motives. A simple figurine can be sold for 10 thousand rubles, and the cost of some rare items reaches fifty thousand rubles.

It turns out that metal toys also cost a lot. Collectors appreciate them for the quality of the material and workmanship. You can get up to ten thousand rubles for ZIL trucks, and you can also sell passenger pedal cars and spring guns at a high price.

For example, here is an offer on Ebay, where it is offered to buy a GAZ-M20 metal pedal car for $ 3,450

Metal soldiers are sold on the Internet for an average of 2 thousand rubles, and in the wake of the popularity of World of Tanks, the demand for metal tanks and toy military equipment has again increased - they are bought up at a price of a thousand rubles and more.

TV "KVN-49"

Not all Soviet TVs are now in price, but this case is an exception. The great-grandfather of TVs today is willingly bought up at a price of 10 thousand rubles or more, and if it is also working, then it is twice as expensive.

SVD radio receiver

Another Soviet miracle technology today is also valued by antique dealers. Its price also averages from 15 thousand rubles, depending on the condition.

Bronze figurines

Bronze figurines from the Soviet era are also valued by collectors, though much less than the works of the 18th and 19th centuries. Figurines made in Kasli, Chelyabinsk region, are especially valued. On the Internet, Kasli casting can be found at different prices, but on average, such figures cost from several thousand to several tens of thousands of rubles. Figurines of the 50s are sold expensively - on average for 25-50 thousand rubles. But this horse with a foal is offered to be bought for 48 thousand rubles.

old perfume bottles

In Russia, they are not yet highly valued, but Europeans buy them very willingly in commission shops. Ideally, these are crystal bottles with a worn cap. They are sought not so much by perfume lovers as by interior designers. Pre-revolutionary products are especially valued. Their cost can reach hundreds of thousands of rubles.

Who among us did not have multi-colored glass cones and balls. The same type of houses, owls and dolls that were in every family, and now they are gradually growing in price. Of course, so far they are unlikely to be sold at a high price, but toys from an earlier period before 1960 are now very much appreciated, but their appearance should be taken into account. On average, they cost from 5 to 10 thousand rubles. Moreover, much more valuable toys are not made of glass, but of cotton wool. Here is such an unsightly harlequin costs about 15 thousand rubles.

Old Pyrex cookware

The heat-resistant dishes of this French brand are still popular with housewives. However, for culinary specialists, dishes of twenty years ago or more are of particular value.

Lithographs

Lithographs often adorned the walls of Soviet people's apartments. Many of them cost nothing. However, there are certain series that are highly valued by collectors. For example, in Europe, early 20th-century lithographs from the Currier and Ives series are sold at auctions for an average of $100,000.

This is not a complete list of what else is valued by collectors. It is quite possible that an expensive rarity is hiding on your farthest shelf.

You can find out where and for how much to sell antiques both online by sending a photo in any way, or come to the office. Here you can sell porcelain, silver, coins, icons, orders and medals, watches, antique books and jewelry. Buying antiques is our guideline! Therefore, we have the best conditions for the evaluation of antiques.

Antiquities and household items of antique value. Jewelry, bronzes, crystal, porcelain, silverware, paintings and wristwatches, antique crockery, silverware, ornaments, interior items, silver and gold jewelry, icons.

Free appraisal of the market value of any antiques

The evaluation of antiques allows you to determine the exact value and authenticity of the item. It includes the following criteria that affect the cost:

• Determination of the state of the product.
• Establishing historical value as in implementation chervonets sower, sell which can be done in the shortest possible time.
• The correctness of the content of metals, precious stones.
• Availability of documents for an award, medal, etc.

All these indicators are set by an expert during an individual meeting with a client or through a quick assessment of the value, for example, if you need to sell an icon.

We evaluate the following items for FREE:

• Antiques and antiques. This includes cigarette cases, boxes, icons, cutlery.
• Gold and silver products: candlesticks, foreign or domestic antique silver, gold rings, bracelets, pendants, watches.
• Wartime items: signs, tokens, orders and medals, edged weapons, etc.

The difference between a collection buyout and a pawnshop

The look of an expert is capable of appreciating a thing at its true worth, without at all diminishing its significance in material terms. When selling, you can be sure that the coin or antiques will be in safe hands, replenish a capacious collection of valuables, and possibly go to a museum or exhibition.

In addition, do not forget about security. The purchase is carried out only with the relevant documents confirming the value of the coin, order. When selling, the client receives the agreed amount strictly on time. All transactions are carried out legally with the provision of the necessary documents.

Buying antiques is one of the activities in which our professional club specializes. If you want to sell silverware, porcelain, antique porcelain quickly, profitably, anonymously, we will be happy to help you with this. Come to our offices, call or write for free consultations and discuss the details of a possible transaction. Thanks to a large number of clients among collectors, we will find a buyer for your rarity.

Catalog of antiques on the site

The antiques section of our collector's portal includes the following subsections:

The purchase of silverware, antique porcelain and glass has been carried out by our club for over 25 years. So, by contacting us, you can count on the professional provision of services.

How does a free antiques appraisal work?

To get a price on your rarity, you can use several options:

Send a high-quality photo of the product through a special form on this site, mobile messengers or social networks. You will receive an answer with the exact cost in a minute.

Come to one of our offices located in 4 cities of Russia and "live" to communicate with the appraisers.

When assessing, the presence of hallmarks and marks of the manufacturer, an indication of 84 samples (if we are talking about silver items), craftsmanship, and the state of today are taken into account. An erased pattern, gilding that has faded or lost over time, mechanical damage, deformation, traces of cleaning can reduce the cost of antiques by 20-30%.

How to recognize a fake

Whether you're just starting out with your antiques collection or you've found an old item at your grandma's house, it's important to acquire at least the bare minimum of skills to distinguish a genuine old item from a fake. Professional assessment of antiques and identification of authenticity is carried out by specialists with extensive experience, so if you have any doubts, come to our offices for competent advice.

First of all, it is worth making sure that the silver object is really made of silver. This can be done at home as well. For example, use a magnet: silver will not be magnetized. Also, silver quickly heats up even from the heat of the hand and cools down just as quickly. Under the influence of a simple sulfuric ointment or chalk, silver will turn black. More sophisticated verification methods are used by specialists.

There are cases when truly antique items grow old, adding several tens of thousands of rubles to the price. And it's not just about applying artificial patina, but also removing old coats of arms and soldering new ones, rubbing initials and applying others to silver dishes. On closer inspection, you will notice traces of stripping and thinning of the metal in the processing area. Even if it is carefully cleaned, it is enough to breathe on this place, and all scratches will be clearly visible.

Pay attention to the clarity and depth of the stamps - the original ones are made of hard metal, fake cheap ones are made of soft. There are cases when brands are cut from cheap antique items (spoons, for example) and soldered onto expensive ones (coffee pots, creamers, etc.). Carefully examine the area around the stamp to find the place of soldering. It is also worth comparing the brand of your item with the brand from the catalog - even many years after the release of the product, the brand on it retains proportions and lines.

Brands, stamps and others are also cleaned on porcelain and glass products. As the years pass, the stamps lose their clarity, so a “fresh” print should alert you. Examine the stamps of the factories - on the original product, all the proportions and nature of the lines, numbers and designations must be observed.

Remember that the more expensive the antique, the greater the temptation to fake it and sell it for a fortune. Therefore, when buying antiques from tsarist times or propaganda porcelain (and the cost of such items sometimes amounts to hundreds of thousands of rubles), do not take risks and contact professionals.

Our acquisitions

We are proud that our club has many clients who turn to us to sell porcelain, silverware, antique glassware. If you are looking to sell silver spoons or old jewelry, come to our offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh or Yaroslavl for a free live evaluation. You can also use the feedback form on this site or send a photo of the item through mobile applications, social networks. Free assessment of porcelain and silver is carried out by our specialists on an ongoing basis.

Do you know that

antiques are some of the most expensive things in the world

Even diamonds are cheaper! For example, the Guarneri del Gesu violin was once sold at auction for a record $4 million! The master who created it was considered one of the main competitors of Stradivari himself! By the way, many musicians believe that this violin still sounds better…

The most expensive antiques in the world! THIS IS INTERESTING

But here's the most expensive antique in the world, which you won't find in an antiques store, is

Leonardo da Vinci's handwritten book

- one of the greatest artists, poets, physicists of our time. This antique was sold at auction in 1994 for an unthinkable price of $31 million. By the way, absolutely everyone knows the person who bought it - this is the head and founder of Microsoft - Bill Gates!

The most expensive antiques in the world! THIS IS INTERESTING

He, in turn, keeps the manuscript in his home collection. But you can also look at this work! Bill Gates annually arranges an exhibition where this book is on display. On the way, you can go to the shops and buy maxi lift, which is an excellent remedy for wrinkles and is quite popular with women. It is known throughout the world as the Leicester Code. Why does she have such a strange name? Somewhere in the 16th and 17th centuries it was acquired (or inherited - currently unknown) by the Leicester family, after whom the chronicle got its name.

It is believed that this is one of the most important notebooks that Leonardo da Vinci kept. It has a huge number of sketches, drawings, formulas and so on. It can really be compared with a modern physics textbook! True, some pages of the notebook were never understood by scientists, which again confirms the amazingness of the nature of the great artist da Vinci!

Unfortunately, you will not be able to hold the book in your hands. Its pages are so shriveled that at the slightest touch they can simply turn into dust ...

In the military antiques market, there has always been, is and will be a demand for items produced in a single copy, many of which boast a unique history. Most often, these are weapons that belonged to great people or are associated with key events of the era. For example,

saber of Napoleon Bonaparte

was auctioned off at the Osenat auction in 2007 for €4.8 million, becoming the most expensive piece of antique European edged weapons. Eastern military antiques compete with Western military antiques. The most striking example is

Chinese saber from the Qing Dynasty

Sold for $7.5 million Forbes chose the 10 most expensive military antiques sold at auction sites over the past 13 years

Novel "The Sun Also Rises"

became a milestone in the work of Hemingway. Unfortunately, for his publishers, it was just another book by an aspiring author. The novel was released in a limited edition by Scribner's in 1926. The copy was sold at Sotheby's in New York in April 2004 for a record $366,400, more than three times the maximum estimated value. This will be explained simply: firstly, by the perfect preservation of the book, and secondly, by the author's signature on the inside of the cover. It was addressed to Dr. Don Carlos Guffey and stretched for as many as 20 lines, so it would be more correct to call it a letter rather than a signature.

The famous auction house Dallas Auction Gallery held its next auction, the main discovery of which was

sale of a pair of ancient vases from the era of the reign of Nicholas I.

This expensive antique, created by the masters of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, was found by accident in a private collection in America. Paired vases were supposed to participate in the auction with an estimate of one to one and a half million dollars, but the lot was sold a week before the auction day for two million seven hundred thousand dollars.

Expensive antiques were inherited by Randy Buttrem from his grandfather Frank Buttrem, who was the founder of a large American company. The previous owner bought the vases in the twenties in Munich and moved them to the United States. As a child, Randy saw these incredibly beautiful vases at his grandfather's mansion in Oklahoma, but he never guessed their real value.

The authenticity of expensive antiques was confirmed by a porcelain specialist from the Hermitage. One of the vases contains a famous eighteenth-century painting by a Dutch master called The Concert. According to data preserved in the Hermitage, in 1832 the canvas from the museum was sent to the Imperial Factory to create a copy of the painting on a vase. After the appearance in the press of information about such a magnificent find, collectors from around the world began to be actively interested in vases. As a result, the owners of expensive antiques agreed to a private sale.

Another interesting and expensive find of the year was

old painting "Victim of Polyxena"

Recently recognized as the work of the famous French master Charles Lebrun, who worked in the seventeenth century. Antiques were sold at Christie's auction, held in Paris. The lot brought its owner more than $1.8 million. The work was discovered on the eve of a major renovation that began at the most popular hotel in Paris, the Ritz.

One of Christie's specialists managed to attribute the canvas. The initials "CLBF", which belonged to Charles Lebrun, were found on the canvas. For many years, expensive antiques were in the room where his star guest Coco Chanel lived. The "Victim of Polyxena" was bought by representatives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in whose collection there was not a single work by Lebrun. This piece of antiques will be on display starting from the end of May this year.

Today, antiques are of interest not only for museums and art exhibitions. If for you antiques are not just interior and household items, if you understand how important it is to preserve these values ​​for our descendants, you will probably want to buy antiques as an original gift, indicating your special attitude towards a person, or to decorate your own home . Antique interior items are traditions in material form, which is why it is customary to pass them on from generation to generation as a great value. Each antique item expresses originality, cultural phenomenality and real history. These items are considered true works of art. They are able to create a special atmosphere in your home and emphasize the chosen style of decoration.

Old antiques

In the catalog of the online auction "ARTLOT24" you will find a large selection of antique items and contemporary art objects of high artistic and cultural value. On the pages of our site are the starting prices for antiques in the following categories:

• a collection of paintings and graphics by Russian artists;
• rare furniture;
• icons;
• lamps;
• antique decor items: candlesticks, candelabra, figurines;
• dishes;
• watch;
• mirrors;
• vintage and modern designer jewelry and other antiques.

All lots presented in our catalog of antiques are carefully selected by experts, so you can be sure of their authenticity. Each lot has a photo and a detailed description that will help you to get acquainted with the products of interest in detail and make your choice. Please note that the catalog contains starting prices for antiques. You can participate in the auction and purchase any lot you like, then pick it up at the showroom in St. Petersburg or order delivery to Moscow or any region of Russia.

1. This 32.01 carat square emerald cut diamond was sold at auction for $7.7 million. Billionaire and philanthropist Leonor Annenberg, who passed away in March, bought it for his 90th birthday. Auction house "Christie" s "did not want to disclose the name of the buyer. The ring was expected to sell at a price of 3 to 5 million dollars.

2. Painting by artist Lucian Freud "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" was sold at Christie's auction in London on May 13, 2008 for $33.6 million. The painting became the artist's most expensive work of art during his lifetime.

3. This globe, once owned by Adolf Hitler, was auctioned off by Greg Martin in San Francisco for $100,000 in October 2007. An American soldier stole this memento from the Fuhrer's house in 1945.

4. A rare stamp of Audrey Hepburn with a cigar went up for auction May 26 in Berlin for $93,800 - more than two minimum prices. There are only five copies of this stamp. Most of them were destroyed after Hepburn's son refused to sell the copyright to the image in 2001.

5. This 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, once owned by actor Steve McQueen, sold for $2.31 million to an anonymous buyer in October 2007.

6. This rare blue diamond of 7.03 carats was auctioned in Geneva on May 12, 2009 for a record price of $9.49 million. This lot has become the most expensive of the precious stones. The stone was discovered in 2008 in the historic Cullinan Mine in South Africa.

7. A rare Abraham Lincoln stamp went on sale in New York for $431,250 on June 13. The lot is known as the "Refrigerator Stamp" because the envelope containing this stamp was sent from Boston in cold stores to India in 1873. The stamp was stolen from its original owner in Indianapolis in 1967 and found 39 years later in a home in Chicago.

8. A rare miniature of Peter the Great in a frame encrusted with diamonds was sold at an auction in New York on November 2 for $1.3 million. George Roberts of Arizona bought it from a London dealer in 1951 and was unaware of its importance until he appraised it that summer.

9. A New York surgeon paid $12,713 for a September 1966 Datebook signed by John Lennon. The paper has Lennon's famous quote about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus.

10. A bottle of Lowenbrau beer and a milk jug from the wreckage of the Hindenburg airship, which burned down in New Jersey in 1937. Andrew Eldridge of the English auction house Henry Aldridge and Son says that about 80% of the drink is left in the bottle. This bottle is said to be the most expensive bottle of beer in the world.

11. An unused life jacket from the famous Titanic went up for auction in New York for $68,500 on June 25, 2008. The vest was found on the Halifax coastline after the ship sank off Newfoundland in 1912.

12. Claude Monet's Water Lily Pond went on auction in London for more than $80 million on June 24, 2008. This 1919 artist's masterpiece is one of four paintings in a series dedicated to water lilies.

13. This golden cup, stored for years under the bed of the grandson of a junk dealer, was sold at auction in the UK for $100,000 on June 5, 2008. This cup is a Persian artifact depicting the two-faced Roman god Janus.

14. A 1961 Ferrari California Spyder once owned by actor James Coburn was sold in Italy on May 18, 2008. The car left at a price of $10,894,900 and became the most expensive vintage car.

15. Claude Monet's painting "Railway Bridge at Argenteuil" went off Christie's auction in New York for $41 million on May 6, 2008. This price broke the auction record for a French impressionist painting. The previous record was set last year for painting "Nymphaeum" - she left the auction for 36.5 million dollars.

16. A rich man from Abu Dhabi forked out for a license plate for a car with a single digit "1". He paid $14 million for it, breaking the previous record of $6.8 million for a "5" license plate.

17. This copy of the Magna Carta of 1297 was sold at Sotheby's in New York. She left the auction for $ 21,321,000 in December 2007.

18. This prototype 10 cent coin was created by the US Mint in 1792. She left the auction along with other rare coins in the collection of a private buyer for $30 million in November 2007.

19. This 1804 Adams-Carter silversmith is one of 15 coins never minted. The coin, bought for 2 million at a private auction two years ago, left the Cincinnati auction on April 30 for 2.3 million.

20. This 1848 daguerreotype shows a lone house on what is now known as the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This one of the oldest photographs in the world was auctioned for $62,500 to an unknown buyer on March 30 in New York.