Professional Appraisal & Online Valuation Services
At iValuations, we provide expert, independent written online valuations and professional appraisals for fine art, antiques, and collectibles. Whether you require a quick digital valuation to understand an object’s current market value or a comprehensive, documented appraisal for legal or insurance purposes, our team delivers rigorous, market backed reports tailored to your needs.
Online Valuations & Identification
Designed for collectors, executors, and individuals seeking fast, reliable market insights from anywhere in the world.
Our online valuation service combines deep technical knowledge with real-time secondary market analysis to provide you with an accurate assessment of your item’s authenticity, origin, and fair market or retail value.
What We Provide:
- Identification of historical period, maker/artist, materials, and origins.
- Current Fair Market Value (FMV) and Insurance Value (IV) based on recent global sales data.
- Analysis of condition, signatures, hallmarks, or technical attributes.
Best For: Inherited items, potential auction sales, private purchases, or general curiosity.
How It Works: Submit clear, high-resolution photographs alongside known measurements, markings, and any other known details directly through our secure online portal.
Formal Written Appraisals
Thorough, fully researched appraisal reports crafted for legal, estate, and financial compliance.
For clients requiring official documentation, we prepare comprehensive written appraisal reports tailored to specific regulatory and institutional requirements. Every report is produced in strict accordance with professional appraisal standards and backed by thorough market research.
Insurance Appraisals (Retail Replacement Value): Detailed documentation establishing the current cost to replace an item with a comparable object in similar condition, ensuring adequate coverage and seamless claims handling.
Estate & Probate Valuations: Objective appraisals conducted for estate planning, distribution among heirs, or formal probate tax calculations.
Divorce & Marital Dissolution: Equitable distribution appraisals delivering neutral, defensible valuations for legal proceedings.
Donation & Tax Appraisals: Compliant valuation reports for non-profit donations and tax deductibility requirements.
Specialist Categories We Cover
We provide specialist valuations across a broad range of fine art and high value tangible assets that can be divided into over 50 categories with dedicated experts in each collecting field.:
Fine Art: historical, modern, contemporary, and regional paintings, prints, sculptures, and works on paper.
Fine Watches & Horology: Vintage and modern wristwatches, pocket watches, clocks and other horological instruments.
Antiques & Decorative Arts: Period furniture, silver, porcelain, glass, bronzes, rugs, textiles and architectural artefacts.
- Books & Manuscripts: antique maps, autographs, ephemera and rare books.
Collectibles & Memorabilia: Arms, armour, and militaria, coins and bank notes, scientific instruments and other historical and collectible objects.
- Ethnographic Art: African tribal art, native American art, Oceanic art, Latin & South American art.
- Jewellery: costume jewellery, fine jewellery and gems.
Why Choose iValuations?
- Decades of Specialist Expertise: Our team brings decades of hands on experience in appraising fine art, antiques, and rare collectibles. We combine rigorous academic research with years of practical secondary market trade experience to deliver precise, highly considered assessments.
- Independent & Unbiased: We operate strictly as an independent valuation platform. As we do not buy, sell, or take commissions on the items we value, our assessments remain entirely objective, transparent, and free from conflict of interest.
- Global Market Perspective: We track real-time secondary market trends, major international auction database results, and private trade transactions to deliver current, defensible valuations backed by actual sales evidence.
- Strict Confidentiality & Security: Every submission, document, and valuation report is handled with utmost privacy and stored securely, ensuring complete discretion for private individuals, legal professionals, and estate executors.
Ready to Value Your Object?
Get started today by uploading your photos for an online valuation, or contact our team to discuss bespoke, formal appraisal requirements for estates and collections.
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