
How to sell camera lenses: value guide & tips
Wondering if your camera lenses are worth selling? Learn which lenses hold value and how to get the best offer for your optics.
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Take your box to a local Post Office or arrange for it to be collected from your home. On entering our HQ, our logistics team will scan the barcode to log its arrival.
Our vintage valuers will carefully appraise your items, and then our friendly buying team will contact you with an offer for everything. Once you accept, we’ll send the money to your bank account within 2 working days.


We'll review your items one more time and then prepare each piece to be photographed. Finally, we'll package each piece carefully before shipping it to its forever home.
After purchasing your antiques, we could sell them anywhere in the world. Our network spans auction houses, museums, schools and independent makers throughout the UK. With that in mind, our most common methods of rehoming are...

Most items are prepared for online and offline auction houses as single pieces or bundles.

Items that can't be fixed may be dismantled into individual components to restore similar pieces.

If an item has historical value, we'll contact a relevant museum.
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