I have one small caveat to add to the idea of selling at auction. If you have anything other than very ordinary, using guns, it would be a good idea to use an auction house that has national exposure and some form of offsite bidding. A number of years ago, there was an auction held at the local fairgrounds. There were over two hundred lots, with many collector pieces. The night before the sale, there was an ice storm, and the roads were pretty dangerous. There were less than thirty bidders there, and everything went very cheap, probably less than thirty cents on the dollar.