California Auctioneers

Biography

California Auctioneers & Appraisers has served Ventura county since 1964, selling estates, collections, businesses and ranchos. We are happy to announce celebrating 55 years in business.

We specialize in estate auctions featuring Early California paintings, fine art, Native American, Rancho and Western, estate jewelry, watches, coins, modern and antique firearms (we are FFL and Ca CFL), vintage cars, collectibles, antique furniture, fine china & glassware, Orientalia, musical instruments, celebrity memorabilia, important collections, garden statues, sculpture, mid century modern, architectural, lighting, Oriental carpets & textiles plus select items of interest.

Our auctions now stream live on our website, and we use third party Auction Platforms; allowing international and national bidding with our catalogs being published on internet platforms Liveauctioneers and Invaluable/Auctionzip/Ebay Live. We have reached audiences globally and set records for a number of unusual items.

California Auctioneers was founded in 1963/4 by John W. Eubanks Sr. and Jewell B. Eubanks and remains a family business.

To inquire about consigning please send us an email with photo's of your items. [email protected]

John Eubanks Jr. M.F.A University California Berkeley. John has over 40 years of experience selling. He is a master appraiser, has traveled the country buying and selling antiques in the 80's and has been auctioneering since 1976. [email protected] or call us 805-649-2686

Mary Eubanks has traveled the east, buying and selling antiques since 1977. She is an appraisar and opened Home Sweet Home Antiques in 1977. [email protected]

Jewels Eubanks is the third generation auctioneer; first selling with his grandfather at age 9, and at California Auctioneers at age 10. Educated in the theater Jewels has a Fine Arts Conservatory degree in Performance from UCSB and studied, performed, produced and directed with some of the brightest minds in American Theater. Becoming the Artistic Director of I.C. Theater he directed (off) Broadway, and locally specializing in new works and modern adaptations of the classics. He has played music, starting his own group (The Family Jewels) and Designed Sound for Theater and Film projects.