Antique touch
19.05.08
AMESBURY — When John McInnis was a youngster, his pals would go off to play baseball while he'd look around for an auction to attend.
Now, decades later, few of his friends are romping on the athletic fields, but the 51-year-old McInnis is going nonstop as one of the most successful appraisers and auctioneers on the North Shore.
As owner of John McInnis Auctioneers, he hosts scores of auctions and real-estate foreclosure sales each year, and it's the rare day when he isn't traveling to appraise an estate or hustling around his auction house to prepare a preview for his many regular customers.
"I enjoy working with people, and helping them get what they want in terms of a transaction," said McInnis, a Hampton, N.H., native who was one of 10 siblings in a family in which his father sold cars and later antiques and his mother was a homemaker.
"There are peaks and valleys with everything, from quality antiques to vintage automobiles. New England rates as one of the top spots in the country for antiques; everyone wants a bargain."
Source: The Daily News of Newburyport