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Artwork appraisals in New Hampshire for donations, estate tax, insurance, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises paintings, sculptures, prints, photography, and mixed media across New Hampshire, including Manchester, Nashua, and Concord.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT ARTWORK APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NEW HAMPSHIRE COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member with 30 years in the trade, from running estate sales and an auction gallery to appraising luxury apparel, furniture, artwork, antiques, and business assets, primarily for IRS tax filings.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member specializing in Asian art, with a Master's from SOAS and a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. Ashley chairs the ISA's Antiques, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts committee and appraises for charitable donation, insurance, and equitable distribution.
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Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
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The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises artwork in New Hampshire for gifts to museums and other charities, for estate filings, for insurance schedules and for property divided in a divorce. Granite State collections run from nineteenth century White Mountain landscape painting through studio craft to contemporary work bought in Boston, and those markets rest on different bodies of evidence. The work runs online from photographs and documents, with a visit where a collection is large.
Regional painting
Nineteenth century views of the notches and the Presidential Range trade heavily with collectors who know the subject, so the evidence for one comes from New England salerooms and dealers rather than from national records alone.
Condition
Unheated winters, wood heat and damp summers show up as foxing, cockling, lifted paint and corroded frame fittings. Each of those is priced rather than noted in passing, because a condition problem moves a figure further than scale does.
Whole households
Paintings usually sit beside silver, clocks and country furniture. The art is measured here and the rest of the contents move through our New Hampshire personal property work, so an executor files from one consistent set of figures.
Fair market value answers both a gift and a death, but never on the same day, and an insurance schedule answers neither. Naming the standard and the effective date is the first thing a report does, because every sale it then cites is chosen to sit around that date.
Fair market value
Each asks what the open market would have paid for the work on one particular day, the first being the day of the gift and the second the date of death. Neither is answered by what the owner paid, however well documented that purchase was, and a retrospective date is written back to the day it happened.
Replacement value
An insurance schedule is written at retail replacement, which lands well above the figure the same painting carries on a tax return. Where a work has no equivalent on the market, the schedule says so and sets out what acquiring a comparable piece would involve instead.
New Hampshire put its consignment rules into statute in the late nineteen eighties and gives its museums a route to title over property nobody claims. Both answer the question that comes before value: whose asset is this.
Consignment
The contract value
is what a New Hampshire dealer answers for if a consigned work is lost or damaged
When a New Hampshire art dealer accepts a work from the artist who created it on a fee or other compensation basis, the dealer becomes that artist's agent, holds the work in trust until it sells to a good faith buyer or returns to the artist, and holds the proceeds in trust until the artist is paid. The dealer answers for loss of or damage to the work while it is in the dealer's possession, and the measure is the value stated in the written contract the statute requires before the work is taken in. That contract must also record whether the work may be sold, the minimum price it may be sold for, the dealer's share, when the artist is paid and when the arrangement ends. A consignment file therefore already holds a stated value and a floor price, and both are evidence a report reads rather than invents.
Creditors
Beyond reach
is where a consigned New Hampshire work sits when the gallery's creditors arrive
Property held in trust under the consignment sections, and the artist's share of the proceeds of a sale, is not subject to the claims, liens or security interests of the art dealer's creditors, and the statute says so notwithstanding any other law. A waiver of the chapter is void. When a gallery closes with unsold work on the wall, that puts the work on the artist's side of the ledger rather than into the dealer's estate, which decides whether there is an object to appraise at all or only a claim to file.
Museum loans
5 years
is how long unclaimed property can sit in a New Hampshire museum before it is treated as abandoned
Property held by a museum in New Hampshire other than under a loan agreement, held for five years or more and still unclaimed, is deemed abandoned, and it becomes the museum's property once notice has been given and ninety days have run from the second published notice with no claim of title filed. Property that was on loan is treated as donated on the same footing once the loan has ended or expired, notice has been given and no one asserts title within ninety days of that second publication. Notice begins with certified mail to the last known owner and moves to publication once a week for two consecutive weeks where there is no address or no written proof of receipt. A family that believes a painting is still theirs on long term loan should check that record before asking anyone for a value.
What clients say we are known for
Across 80+ published AppraiseItNow reviews the picture is consistent: every one is from a client who paid us for an appraisal, and the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how quickly we answer, and how much research is visible in the report.
The appraisal was done very well. Since he was a local artist here in Charleston, SC, they took the time to study and review Jim Booth’s art. His work has made him extremely famous, which can make an appraisal challenging, but they did a superb job and clearly explained how they arrived at the appraisal value. I highly recommend Appraise It Now and will use them again for all my artwork.
Artwork Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow did an excellent job appraising our unique art collection. Joe was always prompt and responsive, and he and his team delivered a thorough, well-supported appraisal in just a couple of weeks, even during the holiday season. I was genuinely impressed. Thank you for the great work!
Artwork Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow was amazing! My father passed with a large volume of artwork & I had no idea what it was worth. Their team was incredibly helpful and quick to respond with text and/or email to any questions as well as a status update along the way. Highly recommend!
Artwork Appraisal for Probate
I recently requested a retroactive appraisal for fine art from AppraiseItNow. I received excellent service from intake to delivery. The appraisal was delivered on time and the content of the appraisal absolutely met my expectations!
Artwork Appraisal
From the start they were very responsive, price competitive, and had a quick turn around time. Thank you so much to Joe who was very sweet in responding to my emails; I am looking forward to utilizing AppraiseItNow for many years to come.
Very thorough and professional — great communication and outstanding service. Highly impressed with their work!
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
Recent arm's-length sales of similar works in the relevant market. We build the analysis from auction records and documented private sales, adjust for differences against the subject work, and reconcile to a fair market value conclusion, disclosing the method and specific comparables as the IRS expects for tax-related assignments.
Within 90 days of the fiduciary's appointment. RSA 554:1 requires a full, itemized inventory of the decedent's property on Form NHJB-2125-Pe, with each asset valued as of the date of death. Court guidance points to qualified appraisals for high-value items such as art and antiques, so significant works deserve documented valuations rather than guesses.
Far less than owners assume. Quantitative pricing studies show artist identity can account for 30-40% of value variance while size contributes only about 2-5% per additional 100 square inches, and condition problems can cut value by 20-50%. Attribution, condition, and provenance drive our adjustments, not dimensions.
Wearing apparel, Bibles, family pictures, photographs, and trinkets of sentimental rather than intrinsic value are excluded from the household-contents attachment of Form NHJB-2125-P. Artwork and collectibles do not qualify for that carve-out: they must be itemized with date-of-death values, which is where a documented appraisal earns its keep.
No state tax applies either way: New Hampshire has no general sales tax and no estate tax for deaths on or after January 1, 2005. Federal rules still reach significant collections, including estate tax above the federal exclusion and the collectibles capital gains rate of up to 28% on sales of art held longer than a year.
