The hunt
Tell us what
you're hunting
for.
We run the estate sales, auctions and barns of the tri-state and go find it.
Four more forks in a discontinued pattern. One replacement tumbler. Period drawer pulls. The lid to a crock. $20 buys a week of somebody else's walking, and a straight answer either way.
Pieces like these come through: pressed glass, plate sets missing four, drawer pulls, crock lids, linens, and dry-stored tools.
Three people nobody serves
The completer
You have eight of your mother's dessert plates and you need four more. Replacements, Ltd. only knows catalogued china. eBay makes you the hunter.
The inheritor
You are standing in a dead relative's house full of tools, linens and costume jewelry. Estate companies ignore anything under a truckload.
The repurposer
You want the incomplete set and the piece that comes apart. Dealers price those as if they were whole, so nobody buys them.
In every case the search lands on the customer, and nobody promises a result. We put both halves of the circle in one place.
The work is the walking, and the walking gets paid
- 1
You describe the piece
One screen. What you're hunting for, the pattern name if you know it, your ZIP and your email. Nothing else is asked.
- 2
You pick a tier and pay at intake
Week Run is preselected at $20. The fee buys the search, not a guarantee, and it credits against the piece when we find it.
- 3
You read the note from the road
Mid-week, a few sentences on where we looked and what we saw. It arrives whether the news is good or not.
- 4
We answer by day seven
Found: photos, the condition named plainly, and the price with your fee deducted. Empty: we say so, and your fee comes back.
Four ways to open a run
Quick Look
Common and easy. We keep an eye out on the next run, with no promised date.
Week Run
One small piece, hunted local, one week.
Long Run
One small piece that means going out of county. A day or three on the road, one week.
Quoted Run
Furniture, a whole set, a designer's brief. Free to ask, priced in writing within one business day, nothing charged until it's agreed.
The fee buys the search, not a guarantee. If we find the piece the fee comes off its price. If we come up empty it is refunded on request.
We never add to a price without asking you first. If a $40 run turns into a second trip two counties over, you get one number and a clean way to say no.
A vague want becomes somebody's job, with a date on it
“Four dessert plates, Fostoria American, to finish my mother's set.”
Note from the road by March 17.
Answer either way by March 21.
We look whether or not it is out there. If we come up empty, your $20 comes back.
Indiana
An estate sale off Highway 62 in Poseyville. Two crates of Fostoria, no dessert plates, but the woman running it gave me a name in Henderson. Going Thursday.
That is what a hunt fee actually buys: place names and specifics, not a status bar. It comes on every paid run, good news or not.
Show us what you've got
People around Evansville inherit a house full of tools, kitchenware, jewelry and linens, and have no idea what any of it is.
Send photos and one line on where it came from. We answer within two business days with an offer to buy, or a straight no and the reason for it. Silence is not one of the outcomes.
Nothing we take in is described as junk. That word is in our name, not in yours.
Piece Report
$20
Keeping it instead? We write up the maker, the era, the pattern name, the condition notes and a realistic local resale range.
In your inbox within one week.
Both doors are wired to the same list
A hunt request
The Want List
A bring-in
Every open request stays on the list. Every piece brought to our door gets checked against it. A request placed in March gets answered in June by a stranger's inherited box.
What comes through the door
Tools and metalware
Dry-stored inland, without the salt pitting that eats coastal stock.
Kitchenware and glassware
The tumbler, the lid, and the four plates that finish a set.
Textiles
Linens, ticking and feed sacks, with the wear named in the caption.
Housewares and oddities
Crocks, hardware, lamps, and the thing with no name on it yet.
Whatever is not matched to a request goes on The Shelf. Incomplete sets and pieces made to be taken apart go in The Salvage Bin, priced for people who are going to cut them up.
Straight answers, before you ask
- 01The fee buys the search, not a guarantee. We never write that we guarantee a find.
- 02A run that comes up empty is refunded on request, confirmed in writing within one business day.
- 03Every piece states both prices: Evansville pickup, and shipped with the shipping inside the price.
- 04We photograph the chip, the pitting and the repair, and we name it in the caption.
- 05No accounts, no passwords, no carts. Your run lives at a private link, permanently.
The doors are not open yet.
The two intake forms are being built now: one to tell us what you are hunting for, one to show us what you have. This page is the whole promise until they are here.
Keep the link. When it opens, $20 is all it takes to put somebody on the road.
See how a run works