Button, Button – Who’s Got the Button?

Button, Button – Who’s Got the Button?

Green Valley Auctions, That’s Who! -Kent Botkin, Auction director at Green Valley Auctions The Mt. Crawford, Virginia based firm recently held an impressive online auction for a superb grouping of 19th & 20th c. buttons. The wide-ranging collection was...

Depression Glass

Green Valley Auctions is staffed with collectors and gurus who love the thrill of antique discoveries as much as any customer. Kent Botkin, GVA Auction Director, is a Depression glass collector and aficionado. “The knowledge has come from years and years of dealing...

Historical Items and Valuable Friendship

It isn’t often that important historical items such as Civil War letters, local manuscripts, and other ephemera are available to the public. We were very blessed to bring-in the New Year with an incredible estate auction on January 12, 2018, and such items were just a...
Finding Home: The Story Behind a Photo

Finding Home: The Story Behind a Photo

-Kent Botkin Being in the auction business is something akin to a detective. You pick up an object, turn it over and over in your hands. The clues are there, you just have to invest the time to interpret them correctly. Recently I worked on sorting items that had...