Wilcox & Hall have known "What it's worth" since 1959 and have a highly recommended service. They can offer you quick answers for your antique appraisal questions or a standard appraisal, ready in only 2 days. They have a fantastic do-it-yourself appraisal tutorial they offer at community colleges for only $2.95. |
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| Most people will start their search at eBay. You can search through their completed listings to see if your item has sold recently, and see for how much. | |
Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2010: America's Bestselling and Most Up-to-Date Antiques Annual Get the most accurate prices and hottest trends in collecting today. Searching for unusual treasures, inexpensive trinkets, exceptional Americana, and everything else that comes across a collector's path? Kovels' price guide has it all, along with all the info you need to identify your collectible and instantly determine the right price. America's most trusted collecting resource since 1953, Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2010, is an all-new edition! "The Kovels' ... published guides to antiques and collectibles are considered the bibles of the field." New York Times |
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| WhatsItWorthToYou.com offers a variety
of appraisal options. For instance, for $4 you can "Unlock
their Database" and spend a day searching through
over 10,000 past appraisals. They have another service they call getting a "Second Opinion." For $9.95 their appraisers will check out an item for sale online - whether it’s in an auction or on a website and and give their opinion on its authenticity as well as its fair market value and replacement value. |
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| More than 600,000 prices for antiques and collectibles sold in the United States are listed here. Each entry gives a description, price, and year of sale so the information can be used to price items today, track trends, or for tax and estate purposes. | |
| Country Living's "What Is It? What Is It Worth?" appraisal column is a favorite among readers. Let the experts from the leading auction houses in the country determine the value of your favorite collectible or prized family heirloom for free. | |
| You can read some good information about antique appraisals at the Antique-Antiques website. | |
| Prices 4 Antiques is a searchable database which provides past auction prices for antiques, collectibles and fine art. | |
| You can chat with antiques expert Doug Robinson at LivePerson. | |
| Bath Antiques offers extremely reliable, highly accurate and completely impartial antique appraisals as well as a free searchable antiques price guide with over 120,000 items. | |
| You can find a few ways to do some research at collect.com. They link to all kinds or resources, have a nice forum and a offer a weekly newsletter. | |
| PriceMiner is a service from the combined efforts of eBay, GoAntiques and the Internet Antique Shop. You get instant analysis in the form of graphs and charts including average price, number of items included in the average, range of price from highest to lowest, and a current estimate based on today’s market conditions with a confidence factor. | |
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Try doing some research at The Antiques & Collectibles Pricing and Reference Database. They provide detailed descriptions, prices based on condition, thousands of photos and a database searchable by keyword or category. |
| Try an extensive search at ArtPrice. They have searchable information on 306,000 artists, 21 million auction results and 36,000 signatures & monograms. Wow. |
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