“I purchased the contents of an estate in Harrison Township,” explained Holly Moyer to DuMouchelles’ appraiser Renee Fessel. A longtime antiques lover, Moyer works as an interior designer for residential and commercial properties and owns the Conservatory, a popular antiques mall with 58 vendors in Clinton Township. Her St. Clair Shores home was featured in The Detroit News in 2019.

“The items were set aside with a bunch of other boxes that were going to be thrown out,” she explained. “I told the owner that I would take the boxes and go through them just in case there was anything of value. He said ‘I doubt it. It’s all trash.’ His father had passed away and he had no attachment to any of it,” she added. “He just wanted it all gone.”

When she later went through the boxes, she was glad sh

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