TOOLS - Key Persons

Martin J. Donnelly Auctions is the largest marketer of antique tools in the world. Through the medium of Martin J. Donnelly Auctions, a total of nine auctions containing approximately 120,000 total antique tools, are held each year. Our auction locations of Nashua, New Hampshire and Indianapolis, Indiana had been antique tool auction locations for many years before our business began. In addition, we conduct a massive three-day auction at our Avoca, New York World Headquarters Complex that attracts hundreds of people as we sell more than eighty tons of tools over the course of the event. Martin J. Donnelly Auctions began in 1983 as the then twenty-nine year old Martin J. Donnelly held a "yard sale" to investigate the possibility of selling tools as a business. The sale was scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m., but when all of the tools had been sold by 6:30 a.m., the viability of such a business was confirmed. From this small beginning, the business has grown and prospered, first as a single person operation selling at shows throughout the country; then, from 1993 to 2002 as the publisher of "The Catalogue of Antique Tools"--the recognized preeminent value guide to antique tools; and continuing with Martin J. Donnelly Auctions, which began in Nashua, New Hampshire in September of 2000, expanded to Indiana in 2002 and added the Avoca location in 2003.