Sell Your Collection or Estate

Battling Blades buys whole collections and entire estates. If you are settling an estate, downsizing, or ready to part with something you spent years building, we will look at everything with collectible value and make one offer for all of it.

What We Buy

We focus on collections rather than single pieces, and we buy almost any collectible that has value, including:

• Swords, blades and armor: swords, knives, axes, polearms, helmets, shields and armor
• Coins and currency: coin collections, paper money, tokens and medals
• Stamps: albums, covers and postal history
• Art: paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture
• Memorabilia: military, sports, political and historical memorabilia
• Books, maps and documents: antiquarian books, maps, manuscripts, letters and photographs
• Musical instruments: antique and vintage instruments
• Antiques: clocks, watches, furniture, decorative arts and other antiques
• Other collectibles: if it is collected and has value, ask us

Mixed collections are fine. You do not need to sort the remarkable pieces from the ordinary ones before you reach out.

Whole Estates

We buy whole private estates, not just the highlights. We work directly with families, heirs, executors and estate attorneys, and we can make one offer for everything of collectible value in an estate, plan around probate, closing or move-out dates, and work with you on packing and transport so the house can be cleared on schedule.

Estate attorneys and executors handling more than one estate are welcome to contact us about ongoing referrals.

Why Sell Your Collection to Us

• One offer, one buyer. No breaking a collection into dozens of separate sales.
• No auction wait. Auctions can take months to settle and deduct seller fees. We make you a direct offer.
• A real business behind the offer. Battling Blades has been family-owned since 2017, with a showroom in Deerfield, Illinois.
• Discretion. Your details and your collection stay private.

How It Works

1. Tell us about the collection. Fill out the form below, then email photos to support@battlingblades.com with your name in the subject line. A few overall shots plus close-ups of the most important pieces is a good start, and an inventory list helps if you have one.
2. Receive an offer. We review everything and make an offer on the collection as a whole. If you have an asking price in mind, include it.
3. Arrange the move. Once you accept, we arrange and pay for secure shipping to us. For large collections we will work out the logistics with you.
4. Inspection and payment. We check the items when they arrive and pay once they match the description. Items that do not match are returned at the seller's expense.

Restricted Items

Some materials and artifacts, such as ivory and certain cultural objects, are restricted by law. If anything in your collection falls into that group, we will tell you up front.

Other Ways to Sell

Closing a library or clearing an institution's collection? See Library Buyouts.