Bill's Bio
What started as a penny collection has grown into my life's work.
I was born in Chicago, but when I was five, my family moved to a small town in Western Michigan. My parents gave me their penny collections, and that's where my interest in collecting first began. When I was 12 and old enough to get a job, I worked summers on local farms. I spent my earnings at auctions, accumulating a collection mostly of depression glass, primitives, and small pieces of furniture. A special gift at that time was meeting a local antique dealer who became my mentor and shared with me her knowledge, experience, and reference library.
In 1983, just after I turned 16, I borrowed my Boy Scout troop leader's van and set up and sold at my first antique show. I continued to sell at shows through high school and college, using my hard-earned money to pay for my tuition at Michigan State University.
Now armed with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business, I left the world of entrepreneurship and entered the corporate scene. In the following years, I held a variety of positions in accounting, real estate sales, management, and as executive assistant to a high-net-worth individual. All were enlightening, but I was always drawn back to the more interesting world of buying and selling antiques.
In 2005, I said goodbye to the corporate world to concentrate on what I loved: buying and selling higher-end items in various genres. My focus now was buying and selling Chinese porcelains and other antiques, fine and costume jewelry, antique silver, coins, and rarer pieces of porcelain, crystal, and other art.
Finally, in 2018, I made the decision to stop buying and selling antiques and to launch my own estate sale company. I assembled a team of professionals that I both trust and respect. And together, we provide the best service possible to both the clients who hire us to sell their cherished belongings and to the customers who buy them. We take great pride in the quality of our work and the success of every sale. A Little Unlimited Estate Sales is licensed, insured, and bonded in the State of Illinois, and I am a Certified Personal Property Appraiser through the Certified Appraisers Guild of America.