Porcelain puffalumps figurines etc

[Pupp]

I have inherited a significant number of mid century decorative porcelain ornaments and figurines etc. All sorts of sizes and makers; I have no doubt some if not most would have been pricy to buy (the collector, my mother, was very adept at turning my father’s pension into dust gatherers).

I need to move this stuff on but am not sure the local auction house is the best bet, and it would be disrespectful (if not economically naive perhaps) to simply skip it all.

Rent a cabinet in a regional antiques centre for a while and see what goes? Vinted or EBay (please no)? Take it all to a couple of bigger antique fairs?

I have no illusions about achieving huge returns on this stuff (I realise most was made in industrial quantities) but am just looking to give myself the best chance of coming out with something and perhaps letting someone who will appreciate the items acquire them…

Anyone been down this road?

[Mr Pointy]

Have you worked out what they are actually worth, say from ebay sold for prices? If it's only a few hundred then the effort of flogging lots of cheap, fragile items simply isn't worth it. Just donate them to charity. Let them go.

[Pupp]

No, have not tried to compare with EBay etc, ‘though it’s probably the fist step. The fragility and relatively low value is certainly a factor that puts me off the single item listing route.