Searching for online guide to appraising home furnishings, guns, china,
silver, Rolex watch--need to be able to print photo and print retail
prices.

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Request for Question Clarification by wengland-ga on 19 Jun 2002 07:59 PDT

Do you need the appraisal for goods you own, like for a household
inventory for insurance or division of property?

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Clarification of Question by neworleanslady-ga on 19 Jun 2002 09:46 PDT

Appraisal for goods owned, as in household inventory for division of property.

This isn't exactly what you are looking for but it is a shove in the
right direction, I think:

http://www.aoaonline.org/faq.htm

A couple of questions:

When you say "guide" do you mean some catalog of items that has
appraised values for things that are similar to what you own? Because
if that is the case...I'm relatively certain that you won't find
anything that is that extensive online.

Where I work we do many appraisals of antiques and collectibles and
one little trick that might help you out would be search
http://www.eBay.com to get an idea of what the market will bear on
your items. Book values are all very well and good but generally not
what you can actually sell something for.

 I would urge you to look into having your items professionally
appraised, however. I'm unsure if you are going through a divorce, but
if you are the best way to go about this (or at least the least likely
to get messy way) is to hire an appraiser that will work for both
parties and split the cost of the appraisal down the middle. Two
separate appraisals can mean for much more time in a courtroom than is
absolutely necessary.