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Appraisal Before Selling: Why Knowing Market Value Protects You – Insights from Ray at ValuePros

ValuePros Appraisal Services

Thinking of selling valuables, collectibles, or inherited items? An appraisal before selling protects your value. This post is for anyone thinking of selling personal property, downsizing, or liquidating an estate. Before you let anything go, its critical to understand what you actually have.

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How to Sell Your Jewelry: Get the Best Value with an Expert on Your Side

La Jolla Gem Appraisal

This provides: A baseline value to compare against offers Clarity on market value vs. liquidation value Insight into stone quality and metal purity A professional’s perspective on where to sell An appraisal is especially helpful if you plan to sell to private buyers, go through consignment, or consider auction.

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Office Hours Information from March 2025

International Society of Appraisers

Q: In a damage claim, what's the most common marketplace for determining the fair market value of diamond jewelry? Is it the orderly liquidation market, retail market, retail replacement market? The process for determining fair market value for a damage claim would be the same for any other intended use.

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Australian Black Opals: Making Waves with Collectors

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Less valuable than black opals, they make for a more accessible, mid-range collecting price. While Ethiopian opals have grown in popularity, in a market sense, they’re still ranked as a lower grade investment than opals sourced from the prominent mining areas in Australia.

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Strategic or speculative? Once again, art investment funds are on the rise

The Art Newspaper

His previous funds only dealt in a small amount of primary market material, and in those cases it was done in partnership with galleries, which would then receive a share of any profits made. While the idea is a worthy one, this investment fund, like all others, faces three structural frustrations of the art market, as Glauber outlines.

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Estate Tax Planning Strategies for Art Collections

Art Appraisal Resources

Incorporating art collections into estate planning presents some unique challenges or considerations due to the nature of valuing and distributing art assets. Valuation of Art Collections Determining accurate valuations for art pieces can be complex and subjective, therefore it requires expertise from a certified appraiser.

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Jewelry Appraisal Guide: Understand & Find Jewelry Appraisers

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Maybe you inherited a collection of bracelets from a relative, or you found a few second-hand watches and don’t have the history of what you’ve bought. The goal of an appraisal is to be as objective as possible, so that a well-informed jewelry expert can tell you with reasonable certainty what your collection is worth.