Sell to Us · Pasadena
Sell vintage in Pasadena without renting a flea market booth.
Free visit · cash offers · no obligation
Everyone in Pasadena knows the Rose Bowl Flea. Fewer people want to spend a 4 a.m. Sunday selling at it. We are the other path: dealers who come to your home on a weekday, look carefully at what generations of good taste accumulated, and pay cash before we leave.
Pasadena rewards a knowledgeable buyer. This is a city of Greene and Greene shadows, Bungalow Heaven attics, Caltech bookshelves, and estates that collected in earnest when Colorado Boulevard still had department stores. We have the eye for what makes this city different.
What Pasadena homes are known for
Arts and crafts furnishings
Mission oak, art pottery, hammered copper, and lighting from the bungalow decades.
California art
Plein air paintings, etchings, and prints, signed or attributed, in original frames.
Books and libraries
Fine bindings, first editions, technical libraries, and the bookplates of old Pasadena.
China and crystal
Fine china, crystal, and the formal dining rooms of an entertaining city.
Estate contents
Complete households from Bungalow Heaven to Hastings Ranch, handled with discretion.
The flea market comes to you, in reverse
Here is the honest math: a booth at the flea costs money, a consignment shop takes up to half, and online selling trades your weekends for shipping problems. We pay a fair wholesale price with none of those costs, and for better pieces our price often beats what a long retail wait would net. From Madison Heights to Altadena and Sierra Madre next door, we make Pasadena calls weekly.
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 price against what I see at the Rose Bowl?
Flea prices are asking prices, not selling prices, and they include the seller’s whole weekend. We pay against what pieces actually trade for, and we explain the difference plainly while we evaluate.
We have a library of old books. Worth a look?
Often, yes. Pasadena libraries are among the best we see: science, exploration, California history, fine printing. We evaluate books by the shelf, not just the spine titles.
Can you be discreet? The neighbors notice everything here.
Completely. Unmarked vehicle, weekday appointments, no signage, and nothing posted publicly. Discretion is a standard part of the service, not an upgrade.
Our house is in Bungalow Heaven. Should we clean up the original hardware and fixtures before you come?
Please leave them exactly as they are. Craftsman hardware, hinges, and light fixtures carry a dark aged finish that took a century to build, and polishing or stripping it removes the one thing that proves the piece is original rather than a reproduction. The same goes for built-in cabinetry: no fresh paint, no new stain, no replacement screws. If something is already loose in a drawer, put it in a bag and keep it with the piece it came from.
We still have old department store boxes and hang tags from Colorado Boulevard. Are those worth keeping with the clothes?
Keep every one of them. Original boxes, hang tags, garment bags, and even the receipt in the pocket date a piece and prove where it was bought, and for good clothing that paperwork can add real money to the item it belongs with. Do not sort the tags into their own pile or throw the boxes out to save space. Bring the box and what was inside it together, and let us read them as a set.
One call. We’ll take it
from there.
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