Sell to Us · Burbank
Sell vintage in Burbank, where the studios sent things home.
Free visit · cash offers · no obligation
Burbank’s households worked in two great industries, and both left treasure. The studios filled local households with scripts, animation art, props, crew gifts, and department keepsakes that collectors now chase seriously. And Lockheed filled the other half of town with aviation history: badges, photographs, instruments, and the quiet souvenirs of the Skunk Works decades.
We buy both stories, knowledgeably. Animation cels are authenticated, studio paper is read for what it is, and aviation material is handled with the respect its security-minded keepers always gave it. House calls are scheduled, private, and concluded in cash.
What Burbank households hold
Animation art
Production cels, drawings, backgrounds, and model sheets, authenticated and priced properly.
Studio paper and props
Scripts, call sheets, crew gifts, department items, and the keeping of long careers.
Lockheed era pieces
Badges, photographs, instruments, and memorabilia from the aviation decades.
Household contents
Mid-century furnishings from the Rancho to Magnolia Park, kept original.
Collections
Cameras, records, toys: the off-hours passions of industry households.
Crew families hold the real history
Star memorabilia gets the headlines, but collectors and archives prize the working material: a painter’s department samples, a grip’s call sheets, an animator’s rough drawings. Burbank is full of crew families who assume their boxes are junk, and they are usually wrong. Before a studio career’s keepsakes hit the bin, let us look. Magnolia Park to the hillside streets, the visit costs nothing and respects everything.
How We Work
We evaluate everything in front of you, explain what we’re seeing, and pay cash before we leave. No consignment, no waiting on a sale.
How it works
Call or text photos.
A real conversation about what you have, no pressure to sell.
We come to you.
We look at everything, at your pace. We know what we're seeing.
Cash offer, same visit.
A fair price on the spot, or a full estate sale run for you.
Common questions
How do you authenticate animation cels?
Production characteristics: peg holes, paint style, studio markings, and provenance. Reproduction and sericel markets are full of confusion, and sorting it out is precisely the service we bring.
Are scripts and call sheets really worth money?
The right ones, absolutely: shooting scripts with revisions, early drafts, and paper from beloved productions all have markets. Even ordinary studio paper finds buyers when the title matters.
Dad worked at Lockheed and never said much. What might his boxes hold?
Badges, certificates, photographs, and sometimes remarkable program memorabilia. We will go through it respectfully and tell you honestly what history is sitting there.
What are the loose pencil drawings in Dad’s animation boxes, the ones next to the finished cels?
Those are usually production drawings: roughs, layouts, model sheets, or clean-up work from the same production as the cels. You can recognize production paper by the three peg holes along one edge and by the animator’s numbering in a corner. Do not trim them, tape them, or press them flat under weight, and leave any drawing still attached to its cel exactly as you found it.
Some of the cels are stuck to their painted backgrounds. Should we separate them?
No. A cel that stayed with its matching background is worth considerably more as a pair, and after decades the acetate has usually bonded or the paint has crazed, so pulling them apart lifts ink lines off the cel. Leave them as they are, keep them flat, and never store animation art in a hot garage or in soft vinyl sleeves, which cloud the acetate over time. Bring the box untouched and let us look before anything is moved.
There are aircraft gauges and instruments from Dad’s Lockheed years on the shelf. What should we do with them?
Very little. The data plate on the case carries the manufacturer, part number, and spec markings that identify the instrument, so photograph that rather than cleaning it up. Do not open a case or sand a dial: luminous markings on older aircraft instruments were frequently radium paint, which is fine sealed behind glass and not fine as dust. Polished cases and repainted bezels also read as restored, and restored lowers the price on program-era material.
One call. We’ll take it
from there.
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