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August 30, 2013

Win a Warhol Sweepstakes

Enter now for a chance to win this original Andy Warhol silkscreen! All you have to do to enter is one of the following: Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Leave us a review on Yelp Do all three and increase your odds of winning! Deadline for entry is September 15, 2013 Details: Campbell’s […]

August 27, 2013

Hughes Expertise on the Road: Appraisals at Royal Oaks

Todd, Kari, and Tony, our talented team of antique furniture appraisers, put on an exciting and informative show for the residents of the Royal Oak Retirement Community last week. We conducted value estimation antique appraisals on over 40 items, and then Todd and Tony got on stage and dazzled the audience with in depth historical […]

July 12, 2013

Mid Century Vintage Artwork, Rocket Science & Pasadena’s Mystical Past

Pasadena isn’t generally remembered as a player in the early 20th Century heyday of Southern Californian spiritualism and vibrant Mid Century art scene. That’s because most people don’t know about the artist Cameron and her strange, mystical spiritualistic collaborations with her husband and rocket scientist Jack Parsons. Cameron, who was making commercial art at the […]

July 10, 2013

Liquidating Self-Storage at the Hughes Showroom

As the first estate sales company in Southern California to offer a Showroom in addition to estate liquidation services, liquidating self-storage units had become a huge part of our business. We talk to people every day who, after years, are finally ready, either emotionally or financially, to liquidate items in storage. Self-storage is a relatively […]

July 9, 2013

Brunswick: Mid-Century Design Icon

In our minds, Brunswick is nearly synonymous with Mid-Century Design. We love finding their Mid-Century modern design streamlined furniture, especially their line of children’s school desks and chairs. We recently dug a little deeper and learned that the company, which opened for business in 1845 in Cincinnati, started out making horse-drawn carriages and billiard tables and […]