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Collections in Context
 
A full service art consulting firm, providing expert advice and qualified appraisals for private collectors, cultural organzations, and museums.
 
 
 
This month's featured artist, Sidney Tillim, impressions on paper, 2000. See  New York Times review of his most recent gallery show.
 
 
Based in the Washington D.C. area Collections in Context offers collectors accredited, written appraisals that conform to the recent IRS guidelines for charitable donations, estate tax purposes, or for insurance evaluation.
 
A full-service consultation firm, we are also able to advise you on the proper care of your objects or direct you in your collection's storage and display needs. We also conduct extensive research on your objects for publications, for personal catalogues, or to establish provenance history. 
 
We offer appraisals of modern and contemporary art. We are also secialists in Judaica, religious art and artifacts, the art of Jewish and Israeli artists, and ancient and biblical antiquities.
 

Are you a private collector?                              Take the steps to to learn  the value of your   art works. 

                                                  

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Appraisals are needed for:                                 

  • insurance damage and loss claims      
  •  sufficient insurance coverage             
  • equitable estate distribution               
  • tax deductions on charitble donations
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    Collections in Conte xt

       

    1. provides accredited, qualified written appraisals, conforming to the latest IRS guidelines .

     

    2.  writes appraisal reports accoring to the  standards establishd by the Appraisal Foundation's Uniform Standards  of Professional Appraisal Practices (USPAP).

     

    3. offers personalized consultation services to help you plan and maintain your collections

     

     

    For more information on standards for appraisers and appraisals of personal property, visit the Appraisal Foundation's Website at http://www.appraisalfoundation.org/

     

      

    Have questions?
     
    Contact Collections in Context, serving clients in the Washington D.C. metro area, Boston, New York and Miami. Email us at:
     
     


     

  

 
Essential  sites for today's  art collectors:
 
IRS Guidelines Regarding Appraisal Requirements for Non-Charitable Contributions
 
Determining the Value of Donated Property
 
IRS Form 8283-Non-Cash Charitable Contributions
 
The Art Loss Registry
   NEWS

Holocaust Resitution Company in Israel demands the return of looted art and Judaica 

 

Auction News: 

  

Record High Sale of Post War War II Art at Christies

 

Upcoming Auctions:

 

Skinner's Judaic Auction set for April 10, 2008

 

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