About Us

Antique Helper, Inc. is an auction company founded in 2001 with expertise in the Arts, Antiques and Collectibles categories of the Auction liquidation and Estate Settlement business. The company's president, Dan Ripley, is a Certified Estate Specialist, NAA member, and a third generation, internationally recognized, art and antiques expert with over 18 years of personal experience dealing at the highest levels of the antiques industry.

MISSION STATEMENT

Antique Helper Auctions will always conduct business as a trusted, experienced state of the art international marketplace achieving record results for arts, antiques and collections. We provide expert customer driven services to individuals, collectors and estates.

OUR SERVICES

Our company offers complete auction services, for estates, collections and personal property for individuals, heirs, executors, other legal representatives and commercial clients. We routinely participate in community appraisal clinics.

ADVERTISING AND MARKETING

We use fully cataloged, live auctions and list our sales on eBay Live reaching millions of bidders and allowing real-time Internet bidding. Antique Helper also offers eBay drop-off services. We use targeted print advertising in International trade papers to reach traditional markets. Our mailing list contains over 10,000 active buyers.

REFERRALS AVAILABLE

Antique Helper serves clients on a national level with major consignments coming from relationships developed in New York City, Florida and across the country. Local clients include The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, The Library of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Eiteljorg Family, First Indiana Bank, The Kokomo Historical Society, Riley Hospital for Children, The Farber Gallery of Art, and many well-known individual clients.