Hello All,
I just wondered if anyone out there had any advice on offering unwanted objects for sale? To be clear, we are not talking a financially-motivated disposal here, but rather a final solution for items which are collectable but have not found
other homes within the sector as part of our established curatorially-motivated rationalisation process.
We have a selection of old postcards (mostly foreign) and old bottles which have been marked for disposal for some years. We have tried and not succeeded in finding new homes for these items by free transfer to other museums or public bodies.
We are now in a position where they have to go. We are conscious that the items do have a small value in financial terms and it would make most sense to offer them for sale, ring-fencing the proceeds into our purchase fund for future acquisitions.
What we don’t know is how to manage this. Does anyone have experience of this sort of disposal – did you do it yourselves or through your Friends? how did you manage it from a reputational point of view?
Any advice, on or off-list, would be hugely appreciated.
Many thanks
Alexia
Alexia Clark
Documentation & Collections Officer
Stroud District (Cowle) Museum Service
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