Palmer, Michigan
Objects that have already lived somewhere.
Sally B Antiques is Sally Jo Burton’s shop at 204 Nicholas Ave. Furniture, silver, ceramics, pictures, and jewelry. Each piece is one of a kind, and priced as such.
The floor this week · 12 pieces, each one of one
How a sale works
Choose a piece, leave your name, and Sally holds it until the next shop day. Nothing is charged on this site.
What we sell
Documented decorative antiques. Not archaeological material, and not a story we cannot stand behind.
Who runs it
Sally Jo Burton, founder and the person who answers when you come through the door.
On the floor
A few to start with
SB-718 · Ceramics
Famille-rose palace vase
Qianlong period, 18th century · Chinese, for the Western trade
$164,000
One of one
SB-802 · Furniture
Florentine pietra dura table
c. 1700, stand later · Florence, the top; the stand is 19th century
$575,000
One of one
Selling
Have something she should see?
Sally buys for the floor. She does not appraise. If the piece fits, she makes an offer.
The proprietor
Sally Jo Burton
Founder and chief executive
Sally opened the shop because the Upper Peninsula keeps producing good things from houses that are being closed, and too many of them leave the county in an unmarked truck. She buys what she would put in her own rooms, writes down where it came from, and asks a serious price for a serious piece.
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