By Mikayla van Loon
One of the biggest clearing sales Pakenham has seen in many years is happening right now.
Over 600 items are for sale from a 70 year old collection on the Williamson property in Pakenham.
Peter Rollason from Elders Pakenham said although clearing sales are quite common, this is the largest sale he has seen in his time working in the area.
“You won’t see a sale like this regularly, I’ve been involved in clearing sales for 35 to 40 years and I’ve never seen a sale like this,” Mr Rollason said.
Having collected cars, tractors, machinery and trucks for all those years, Jeff and Gary Williamson are going through the process of selling all the items their father collected through an online auction system.
“We decided a fortnight ago to just go online because it was very uncertain what was happening with COVID and we were receiving a lot of inquiries from interstate, so we’ve had inquiries from all states of Australia and also some overseas inquiries,” Mr Rollason said.
“So in the interest of everyone being able to bid we thought we would just make it online bidding.”
Crowds came by the hundreds to view all the items, with 650 people visiting the Williamson property over two days last week.
With the property recently sold, this clearing sale is an ‘all must go,’ with anything not sold planned to be used as scrap metal.
“The bidding will go until this evening and I would be surprised if we don’t get 100 per cent clearance,” Mr Rollason said.
For those who know collectables, tractors dating back to the 1920s, rare machinery, horse-drawn buggies and cast iron items, are just some of the things up for grabs.
To view any of the items, potential bidders can check out https://gjwilliamson.com/ where photographs have been displayed under each category.
Bidding ends at 6pm tonight, 1 March.
To place a bid, go to https://auctionsplus.com.au/auctions/ and register as a bidder.
Goods can be collected from Tuesday 2nd March to Monday 8th March either by appointment or head to the Elders Pakenham Facebook page for more details.
