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Property and Equipment | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract] |
Property, Plant and Equipment Disclosure [Text Block] | Note 5 – Property and Equipment Property and equipment consists of the following:
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Building and improvements |  | $ | 1,676,942 |  | $ | 1,580,584 |
Machinery and equipment |  |  | 1,518,938 |  |  | 1,456,314 |
Furniture and fixtures |  |  | 563,782 |  |  | 570,889 |
|  |  | 3,759,662 |  |  | 3,607,787 |
Less: accumulated depreciation |  |  | (2,068,790) |  |  | (1,942,684) |
Total property and equipment |  | $ | 1,690,872 |  | $ | 1,665,103 |
We owned a 20,456 square foot facility at 11311 Reeder Road, Dallas, Texas, which housed our largest retail operation. The land and buildings were subject to a mortgage maturing in August 2016, with a principal balance outstanding of $1,587,106 as of July 26, 2016. We sold that facility on July 26, 2016 for $2,250,000 to 2 DAK Investments, LLC. The land was recorded on the books at $1,160,470 and accompanying buildings were recorded at $2,142,530. Both were retired along with the accumulated depreciation of $401,724 upon the sale of the assets. After all the fees were recorded, DGSE posted a loss of $1,156,135 upon the sale of the Reeder Road location. Depreciation expense was $320,744 and $403,716 for Fiscal 2017 and Fiscal 2016, respectively.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Includes, but is not limited to, accounting policies and methodology, roll forwards, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, including composite depreciation, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, useful lives and method used, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 360 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2155823 + Details
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