Discovery Antiques & Jewelry — Local services in Bernardsville

In early 2016, my father died and left my stepmother with the overwhelming task of liquidating all of his and many other family possessions in a very large house. Discovery Antiques led and organized our estate sale, furniture and other items sold at auction and silver, paintings, and other valuables sold using various online venues. Angela and John, not only did a great job in getting us the most money possible for our family possessions, they treated my stepmother with fairness and much compassion for the sensitive situation around the loss of my stepmother's husband. Angela and John were totally trustworthy, as they had access to many valuable items, and never this betrayed this trust. Discovery Antiques is not your typical liquidation dealer who churns out run of the mill estate sales. They provided an "end-to-end" service, including complete clean out of the house. John and Angela are incredibly knowledgeable with the valuation of all types of antiques and have subject matter experts who they use as resources for anything that they may not know or may require confirmation of. Our experience with Discovery Antiques was first rate and I would highly recommend their services. You will be dealing with extremely professional,...

My wife and I stumbled on Angela and John near our house coordinating another estate sale. They were managing a brigade of house predators. We were so impressed by their intelligence and integrity and we retained them within 10 minutes.

The sale - We accumulated 25 years of valuable furniture and belongings. Amazingly, John and Angela handled everything the weekend of our estate sale. They helped us dispose of every item we wanted to sell. They buffered us from every problem. Their staff watched our belongings and protected our house. We didn't worry for a minute despite hundreds of people entering our home. Whatever didn't sell (very little) was taken on consignment by John and Angela.

Selling everything you own through a third party is a leap of faith. There was never a moment of doubt with Angela and John. Use...

We had Discovery Antiques & Jewelry conduct an estate sale for my husband and I a year ago. We have asked several times for an accounting of the items that were sold and how much they were sold for but we never received that information from John Conforti and his wife, Angela. I have talked to friends who hired other estate sale companies and they all received full written reports of their sale items and the sale price for each. I do not understand why Mr. Conforti would not reveal this vital information to us….. The only reason that we gave this business two stars instead of 1 is that the their two employees worked hard and did a good job with the presentation...