Meet The Great American Tag Sale Experts Team
James “Jim” Klinko
James “Jim” Klinko started Fine2Consign stores to provide a truly interactive experience to his customers. Furniture on Consignment 2 and Premier Consignments in Westport, CT are more than furniture. This is where you go when you wish to decorate your home, buy a gift, piece of art, or one of our many treasures. Jim is an expert at identifying items of value including high-end furniture, jewelry, antiques, etc.
Jim Klinko has known Martha for about 33 years. His store in Westport was on Turkey Hill, near where she lived. She came in and they struck up a good friendship. With two locations in Westport, Connecticut Furniture on Consignment 2 and Premier Consignments his clients have included Ann Hathaway, Martha Stewart, Diana Ross, Joanna Gleason, Wentworth Miller and many more celebrities.
Frank Kaminski
Frank Kaminski has over 40 years’ experience in the antiques and auction industry. He started Kaminski Auctions in the 1980s. His business and clientele grew working with companies like Brooks Brothers and Abercrombie and Fitch, and a landmark estate auction on site for Mayor James Michael Curley, the former mayor of Boston. In recent years Kaminski Auctions has held prestigious auctions for Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse, and most recently the iconic Waldorf Astoria Hotel, NYC, and the estate of Mrs. Henry Ford II. The main auction gallery is at 117 Elliott Street in Beverly, Massachusetts. Kaminski Auctions now boasts two new galleries on Antiques Row on the Dixie Highway in, West Palm Beach, Florida. Kaminski Auctions hosts over 26 auctions per year and has a West Coast branch featuring representatives from Santa Barbara and Palm Desert, California.
Vincent Manzo
Vincent Manzo has over 35 years of experience identifying and
appraising antiques and objects of art. For 20 years he has
operated a store called Yard Sale in East Hampton, New York with Alexis Stewart, Martha Stewart’s daughter. Martha Stewart recognized Vincent’s talent
at identifying objects of value and offered him a partnership with her daughter Alexis creating Yard Sale. He went to FIT The Fashion Institute of Technology, for display and exhibit design. He has also worked for Sacks 5th Ave, Hermes, and
Tiffany & Co. as display director from 1989-1995. He is always surrounded by luxury items and is knowledgeable of their value.
"Martha puts small businesses on the map" (Jim Klinko) or in the forefront of people’s minds. She loves people who work hard and who run a small business. She promotes so many stores in the antiques, food, and wine industries.
The three experts were discovered by Martha and brought together to help her organize and value endless antiques, furniture, porcelain, and other items of value from her collection for the first episode of “The Great American Tag sale” featured on the ABC Network on June 25th, 2023! You too, can have the experts help you!