WORK WITH EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS
NATIONAL
Markets and participants are no longer strictly local. You need to have expertise and experience on a national and global basis, including research and analysis. Our appraisers travel and reside across the country bringing their highest credentials to bear on every situation, whether it is large or small, regional or national, for individuals or institutions to bring training, thought, and skill in resolving personal property assessments.
APPRAISAL
All types of appraisal functions are accomplished at the highest level, whether it is a simple task of providing market value for a senior citizen seeking to divide their treasures among their children or replacement costs for a vast archive at a corporate headquarters. Our appraisers are trained, qualified, and certified to provide our clients with the latest in appraisal methodology and standards. Reports are easy to read, definitive in nature, and complete in scope.
CONSULTANTS
We work in tandem with other professionals, whether it is attorneys, accountants, trust officers, adjusters and claim managers, or even other appraisers to offer guidance, support, analysis, and documented help in unusual or complex valuation problems. This includes market evaluations, broad evidence reports, multiple valuations, blockage discounts, and advice on a host of appraisal related predicaments.
NEWS
ROADSHOWS BATTLE IT OUT!
Thank goodness we don’t call our radio show “The Value This Roadshow.” If we did, we’d be in for big trouble, and at least one lawsuit if not two.
On Feb. 25 a lawsuit was filed by WGBH Educational Foundation, producers of PBS’s The Antiques Roadshow (1)against Treasure Hunters Roadshow(2), an Illinois based variation of the popular antiques television show. The suit claims that Treasure Hunters Roadshow is infringing on the goodwill, trademark, and logo of the Antiques Roadshow.
The Treasure Hunter’s Roadshow is decidedly different in scope. The name of their game is buy. Their “appraisers” or dealers examine items and offer a price to the owners. Take it or leave it. Who cares what the item might bring elsewhere, auction or otherwise. It’s cash on the barrel, the oldest antiques game in town.
The Antiques Roadshow, on the other hand, does not buy merchandise. Each “appraiser” must refrain from private offers. They provide estimates based on either past auction sales or what they think the item might be worth in a gallery setting. The numbers flashed on the screen are usually ranges from what the appraiser has said. People go their way, often disappointed, sometimes surprised, but armed with information that might prove valuable in making a decision about their item. (Business cards from the appraisers may be picked up in the lobby on the way out.)
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