Montrose Auction Inc.

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Montrose Auction
*** View Our 2010 Auction Calendar! ***


Wednesday, February 10th, 10am-12pm:  Open Consignment Time
We are open during this time for you to pick up previously purchased items and to consign items for our upcoming auctions.


Tuesday, February 16th, 6:30pm:  Tuesday Night Auction     Doors open at 5pm for preview!
We begin with box lots and then move to the furniture on the stage.  You never know what treasure you'll find at a Tuesday Night Auction!


Friday, March 5th, 7:000pm:  First Friday Antique Auction     Doors open at 5pm for preview!
First Friday Antique Auctions may include collectibles, advertising, Persian rugs, coins, memorabilia, firearms, furniture and more!


Saturday, March 20th 10:00am:  Public Firearms Auction     Consignment deadline is Wednesday, March 3rd!
All types of firearms ... many new-in-the-box ... 700+ firearms to be sold.
This will be a 900+ lot auction; including ammunition, accessories and German WWII items.



We are open each Wednesday 10am - 12pm to accept consignments.
Now accepting consignments for our March 20th Firearms Auction and our upcoming antique auctions!


Invite your friends and enjoy some fun in Montrose!


 

Welcome to Montrose Auction!

Live auctions provide a unique forum in which to match buyers and sellers. It is the auction house that ensures a great environment, an interesting selection of items and a fun, successful auction experience.

Montrose Auction Inc is middle Georgia’s premier auction company. We are a full-service auction house committed to meeting the needs of both consignors and buyers. Established in 1977 and a federally licensed firearms dealer since 1993, Montrose Auction specializes in antiques, personal property, firearms and estate sales. With our full time staff and an impressive network of buyers, collectors and experts, we can buy, sell and auction individual items, collections or entire estates. Each year, our approximately 40 auctions attract a diverse group of buyers and consignors.

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Montrose Auction is going green!

In consideration of our Mother Earth and the 'going green' initiative, Montrose Auction plans to continue our own green efforts by reducing our printings and mailings.

By January 1, 2009 we expect to cease mailing more than 1000 postcards for our Tuesday Night Auctions. In addition, we will have fewer mailings regarding our First Friday Antique Auctions and focus on mailing notices about our specialty auctions that are outside our regular auction schedule.

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Fort Sumter Flag

We recently acquired a unique and historical item originating from the beginning of the Civil War.  Presented to “Peter Hart the flag of Fort Sumter. Piece of the Frt. Sumter flag staff & piece of the Frt. Sumter flag – presented by Robert Anderson Br. Gen. USA” This autographed page is torn from a gold leaf book with other signatures on three of the four pages. There is a great deal of history surrounding this flag, much can be learned by visiting the National Park Service website. pice of fort sumter flag

 

Below are excerpts from The National Park Service website.

The first shot of the American Civil War didn't hit anything. It was a 10-inch mortar shell, fired from Fort Johnson, that exploded above Fort Sumter as a signal for Confederate artillery to open fire on the Union-held fort. Fort Sumter National Monument, SC

Decades of growing strife between North and South erupted in civil war on April 12, 1861,

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Newsflash

An auction is the process of buying and selling goods by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the winning bidder. In economic theory, an auction is a method for determining the value of a commodity that has an undetermined or variable price.

The word "auction" is derived from the Latin augēre, which means "to increase" or "augment".

For most of history, auctions have been a relatively uncommon way to negotiate the exchange of goods and commodities. In practice, both haggling and sale by set-price have been significantly more common. Indeed, prior to the seventeenth century the few auctions that were held were sporadic and infrequent. ~Wikipedia