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Choosing an Appraiser—Essential Questions to Ask: Part I

Art Advisor's Blog

There are many reasons you might need an appraisal of personal property. Your insurance agent has suggested that you need your art or jewelry appraised in order to put them under rider coverage. Your client with the large estate has just died and her personal property must be appraised. But where to begin? What’s USPAP?

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Thoughts on Things

Artifactual History Appraisal

This is a brief snippet of a much longer monologue that runs continually in my head as I work professionally in the world of things and help guide people through the process of dealing with material objects. I can't imagine how much more wrenching it must feel for family members.

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Introducing ISA’s Updated Antiques, Furnishings & Decorative Arts Course Manual

International Society of Appraisers

After a thorough evaluation of the current material, discussions with students about what they’d like to see purged or added, input from the AFDA committee and consideration of current trends, the AFDA instructors have developed the latest version of the course manual.