My thought would be to give the "big boy" examples to one of the major auction houses but don't have them put all of it in the same auction. Have them spread it out a bit. Outside of the top, say, 5 or 10% that you give to a major auction house, then send the rest to a lesser one that specializes in such things and can get good individual prices on $25-500 items. I used Sig Auctions for this purpose and they did very well for me. I was very happy with them. They will spread the collection out over a bunch of months or even a year or more if need be, and they get very solid prices on items within this price range.
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