Vicky Nash Shaw, ISA CAPP
Certified Personal Property Appraiser
American Sugar Chest
19th Century
Chinese
Meiping Vase

When you need to know the value of something you own or collect, or need to know the value of a home's contents, we can provide assistance. As a professional appraisal firm, we specialize in confidential insurance and estate appraisals, and offer a variety of other appraisals and services. Our firm provides a high quality appraisal at a reasonable cost.

We provide a full range of other types of appraisals, including charitable contribution, equitable distribution and damage claims. Vicky Nash Shaw, our primary credentialed appraiser, offers every type of residential contents appraisal, and she insures that each utilizes the appropriate market approach in determination of the value for each of your types of items. We also offer appraisals and inventories for private collections and for non-profit foundations. To supplement insurance appraisals, we often complete inventories of home contents.

We have a host of other consulting services. For heirs and executors, when estate appraisals are not required but decisions must be made regarding personal property, we have a variety of estate services that can help with distribution and/or estate liquidation. We can provide verbal approximations of value for individuals needing general information when a written appraisal is not required.

Moving or Downsizing? Our consulting services can guide you through the many alternatives for selling or donating items from your home or your collection; you were careful in acquiring your collectibles, and equal care should be made if you decide to liquidate for any reason. Call us before you sell!

Expanding your collection? Vicky is involved in the antiques and collectibles market on a daily basis, and is aware of current prices. Through her professional contacts, she often knows in advance when collectible items become available. She can provide valuable advice before you buy.

As a certified member of the International Society of Appraisers, Vicky Nash Shaw is qualified to appraise home contents, including antiques, art, collectibles, furniture, silver, and even tools and cars. In addition, her specialties include American 18th, 19th and 20th century furniture, American silver, Asian ceramics, Chinese furniture, Japanese Woodblock prints, French furniture and American ceramics. All of the photographs in our website, including in our header, are examples of items we have appraised or inventoried.

Vicky visiting small pottery workshop in Safi, Morocco

As a certified member of the International Society of Appraisers, Vicky Nash Shaw is qualified to appraise home contents, including antiques, art, collectibles, furniture, silver, and even tools and cars. In addition, her specialties include American 18th, 19th and 20th century furniture, American silver, Asian ceramics, Chinese furniture, Japanese Woodblock prints, netsuke’s and okimonos, cloisonné , French furniture and American ceramics. She is continuing to expand her expertise and is currently studying the areas of Turkish and Moroccan arts. All of the photographs featured in our website, including in our header, are examples of items we have appraised, brokered or researched or inventoried for clients.