Clements

In 1938, Charles W. Clements Sr. began selling antiques bought from local estates in his teenage years. It wasn’t long before Mr. Clements became the most well known antique specialist in the region. He opened up one of the first auction firms in the Southeast, holding the Tennessee Auctioneer license number 13. In the early 1960s, Mr. Clements became one of the first importers of fine English furnishings and antiquities. By creating the South’s first antique wholesale operation, he began traveling across the globe, amassing a collection of treasures over 75,000 square feet in size. It was then Clements Antiques established itself as an iconic figure in the antique auction industry