Phone Contact
What is an Appraiser?
Types of Appraisals?
Suggested Reading
USPAP
College for Appraisers


Valid HTML 4.0!

SUGGESTED READING
For anyone planning to become a serious collector in a particular area, research is crucial. Start out by buying a price guide that focuses specifically on the items you wish to collect. Learning as much as you can about your pieces is the most cost-efficient way to become a collector. Always buy the best possible piece you can afford for your collection. High quality will stand the test of trends and time.


click on titles for more information
These guides are available from your local bookstore or on the internet. A great source for ordering out-of-print price guides is Powell's Bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Shop their website at www.powells.com
By Chuck Miller, and published by Krause Publications, 2001. The perfect guide for the Baby Boomers who are wondering what their record collection is now worth. They also have an earlier time period price guide that starts at the turn-of-the-century.
Edited by Sharon & Bob Huxford, and updated annually to current prices. Published by Collector Books. After years of study, I still recommend this general price guide that gives an overview of just about anything in the antique collector's world.
If you are going to be donating items that didn't sell at an estate sale, or for any situation where you'll be donating items worth more than $500, consult and get the workbook:
"It's Deductible" Tax Year 2005 Workbook
Published by Intuit® and available
in a downloaded version at their website:

www.itsdeductible.com