Appraisily

Appraisals for clients + a toolkit for professionals. Faster, clearer valuations with AI or experts.

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A proposed value should not stand alone.

Pro Screener searches auction-sale records and returns retained comparables with images, sale prices, sources, and a PDF evidence annex.

Upload a picture, proposed value and we find real best-matched real auction sales.

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A difficult signature is not only a handwriting problem.

It is a material problem.

Brush, scratch, pencil, print, later ink, inventory mark.

Each one asks a different question.

Before reading the name, inspect how the mark was made.

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We continue to improve our appraisals.

Now each appraisal come with a market report for the specific item we have appraised.

More data, better long term investing decissions!

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Same object.
Different purpose.
Different value question.

A good appraisal starts by defining what the valuation is actually for.

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Watercolor -> Gouache -> Pastel -> Acrylic -> Oil -> Impasto

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A frame can tell you when a work was framed, reframed, sold, inherited, or prepared for display.

It cannot prove when the painting was made.

The frame is a witness.

Not the birth certificate.

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Appraisers: upload an image, add value + description, and get ranked past auction comps. No signup for the first 3 objects.

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A close-up often says more than the image.

Oil builds ridges.
Watercolor stains fibers.
Prints stay flat.
Hand-embellished prints sit somewhere in between.
Pastel catches on the tooth of the paper.
Mixed media starts layering behaviors.

A lot of confusion starts when people read the picture, but not the surface.

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A polished surface can hide a lot.

The wood underneath usually hides less.

Cut marks from axes, hand saws, circular saws, and modern milling leave very different signatures, and those signatures can help narrow the period of construction surprisingly
fast.

That’s one of the reasons appraisers pay so much attention to the parts most people never photograph.

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Bronze Age to modern steel. A tiny object, and a whole history of manufacturing.

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Same furniture, different styling.

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What appraisers notice on the back of a frame can change the whole read of a piece.

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Most auction houses lose consignments in the first 48 hours.

Not because they're bad at their job. Because intake is still manual: emails, blurry photos, "old thing maybe worth something."

Pro Screener fixes it.

Consignors upload through your portal. Structured intake, auto-generated value ranges, clean queue for your team.

One house went from 3-day triage to 4 hours.

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A RARE HUANGHUALI APOTHECARY CABINET

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Giulio Minoletti - Gio Ponti - Armchair, 1952

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A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'BOULLE MARQUETRY' COMMODE

£302,400

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- Louis XIV Boulle marquetry cabinet: SOLD $700,000
- Louis XV ormolu commode: SOLD $693,000
- Illuminated manuscript: SOLD $900,000
- Tiffany Venetian lamp: SOLD $87,000

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16 antique wooden desks that sold for big money

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$780,000 for a 17th‑century huanghuali tapered low cabinet (public Bonhams result).

Deal?

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ANDRÉ GROULT | An Important and Rare Commode

Sotheby's • 2016-12-14

$1,452,500