Jewelry, art, and collectibles
Diamonds and gemstones, watches, gold and silver, paintings and sculpture, coins, memorabilia, antiques.
Fields on every file
You record metal, purity, and carat weight for jewelry, artist, medium, dimensions, and edition for art, and provenance for everything, since ownership history is often the largest driver of value. You attach grading reports and certificates of authenticity to the facts they support, which is what an insurer or estate attorney asks about first.
- Certification or catalog number
- Metal, purity, carat weight, gemstone grading
- Artist, medium, dimensions, edition
- Provenance and ownership chain
- Condition and conservation history
Governing standard
USPAP Standards 7 and 8
The report states the market level the opinion rests on, retail replacement against auction against private sale, and the rationale for choosing it.
Credentials
- Required to practice
- ISA accreditation
- Optional designations
- Accredited Member, Certified Appraiser of Personal Property
Source documents
Grading and certification reports, provenance and ownership records, purchase receipts, prior appraisals, insurance schedules.
Report types
- Insurance scheduling
- Estate
- Fair market value
- Donation
The finished report
The report states current use and alternative use side by side, and names the market level the value opinion rests on.
Every report prints the cover, letter of transmittal, executive summary, subject identification, assignment and scope of work, condition analysis, methodology, comparable analysis, reconciliation, certification, signature, sources, supporting documents, the legal notice, the appraiser certification appendix, and a verification page whose QR code resolves to the record.