Appraisals, including at your kitchen table
Written appraisals for insurance, and at-home visits for the collections that are too large, too heavy or too scattered to box up and carry into a shop.
Knowing what it is worth, and knowing what to do with it
Insurance appraisals. If a collection is going on a policy, the insurer wants it described and valued in writing. That is a different exercise from selling: the point is documentation you can file, not a transaction.
At-home appraisal visits. Some collections cannot reasonably come to the shop. Decades of accumulation, heavy bulk silver, a house that is being cleared, or an owner who simply should not be driving across town with it. In those cases we come to you.
Decluttering. Often the real problem is not value, it is volume: boxes, tins, folders and envelopes with no order to them. Sorting that into what is collectible, what is metal, what is ordinary and what is genuinely junk is a service in itself, and it is usually the thing that unsticks the whole situation.
- Written appraisals for insurance
- Valuations for estate and probate
- At-home appraisal visits
- Collections too heavy to transport
- Houses being cleared
- Family divisions of a collection
- Decluttering an accumulation
- Sorting unlabeled boxes and tins
- Coins, currency and bullion
- Gold and silver jewelry
- Advice on what to keep
- Advice on what not to refine
Four steps, at the shop or at your table
Call and describe it
Roughly what there is and roughly how much. That decides whether this is a counter job or a house call.
We agree the scope
What you need out of it: an insurance document, a plan for an estate, or simply order out of chaos.
It gets gone through
Sorted, identified and separated into collectible, metal, ordinary and keep.
You get it in writing
Where a written appraisal is the point, that is what you are left holding, whether or not you ever sell.
An appraisal is not a sales pitch
Plenty of people who need something appraised have no intention of selling it, and should not be pressured into it. An insurance appraisal exists so a collection can be scheduled on a policy. An estate valuation exists so a family can divide things fairly.
Those are legitimate reasons to want a number, and they deserve to be handled as their own job rather than as bait.
If you do decide to sell, afterwards or years later, the counter is here. That is your call and not part of the appraisal.
Questions we get about this
Yes. If a collection is being scheduled on a policy, the insurer needs it described and valued in writing, which is a different job from buying it.
Yes, for collections that are too large, too heavy or too scattered to bring in. Call 910-520-4708 and describe roughly what there is.
Sorting an accumulation into what is collectible, what is valued as metal, what is ordinary and what is not worth keeping. It is usually the step that makes everything else possible.
No. Many appraisals exist precisely so somebody can keep a collection and insure it properly.
Yes, and executors and families dividing a collection are regular customers.
Ask when you call, so the arrangement is clear before anybody spends time on it.
It depends entirely on volume. A shoebox is an afternoon; forty years of accumulation is not. Describing it on the phone lets us plan properly.