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Antique silver appraisals for divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP. AppraiseItNow provides USPAP-compliant fair market value reports on silver collections, flatware, and hollowware to help ensure a fair settlement.
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DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT ANTIQUE SILVER APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, PROBATE COURTS, AND ESTATE ATTORNEYS.
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Owner & CEO
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.
Machinery & Equipment Appraiser
Third-generation auctioneer and CAGA Certified Appraiser with more than 20 years valuing machinery, equipment, vehicles, business assets, and estates for banks, attorneys, and trustees across the Carolinas.
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.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
International Society of AppraisersAccredited Member
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsWhen a marriage ends and antique silver is part of the marital estate, courts, attorneys, and mediators require an objective fair market value determination to support equitable division. Whether a spouse wants to retain a sterling flatware service, a collection of Georgian pieces, or inherited hollowware acquired during the marriage, the value must be established by a credentialed expert rather than a lay opinion. Our personal property appraisal services cover antique silver in all its forms, with appraisers who understand hallmarks, maker attribution, provenance research, and current auction market data.
AppraiseItNow delivers these valuations both online and onsite across the United States, accommodating the timelines imposed by state court discovery schedules and mandatory property disclosure requirements. Our divorce appraisal support is designed to produce reports that hold up under the scrutiny of legal proceedings, including potential expert testimony.
AppraiseItNow appraises a wide range of antique silver items that commonly appear in marital estates, including:
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It is a pleasure to work with Joe and his team. They communicate every step along the way and made the process simple for us to have more than 35 firearms appraised. It was all done in a timely manner and the final report is easy to understand. I highly recommend their services.
Gun Appraisal for Probate
The estate appraisal for our car and rugs was handled quickly and efficiently. The process was smooth and hassle-free.
Personal Property Appraisal for Estate Tax
Fast and friendly service. I will definitely use their services again!
Personal Property 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!
At fair market value, shown through comparable auction and dealer sales rather than melt weight alone. Melt value (weight times purity times spot price) is only a floor; maker, pattern, rarity, and condition regularly push collectible silver well above it, so our appraisers work from actual sales of similar pieces, not scrap calculations.
That is a documented and costly mistake. Insurance schedules reflect replacement cost, while divorce courts require fair market value, and current auction or dealer prices can run 30 to 70 percent below replacement figures depending on demand and condition. Dividing off the insurer's numbers can badly overstate the share credited to the spouse keeping the silver.
It depends on the state. North Carolina, for example, values marital property as of the date of separation under G.S. 50-21(b), so silver spot-price swings or collecting-trend shifts after separation generally do not change the number the court uses. That timing rule matters more for metal-linked assets than for most household property.
Photographs of hallmarks and maker marks, itemized weights and purity, provenance paperwork, and any restoration or condition records. Courts are skeptical of lay estimates for specialized items, and silver claimed as separate property because it was inherited needs documentation such as estate inventories or wills to stay out of the marital balance sheet.