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Topic: How to insure and appraise a collection (guide)
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-22-2016 03:29 PM
Larry McGlynn, of McGlynn, Clinton & Hall Insurance Agencies and Insurance Services of New England (as well as a cS member), has authored a new guide about How to Insure and Appraise Your Collection. "How do I insure my art or my antiques or my sports memorabilia or my wine collection?" Over the years, people have asked me that question in one form or another in an attempt to understand how to protect their collections. As a collector, I understand their passion of being a serious collector. As an insurance agent, I understand their concern for a collection that they enjoyed and worked hard to accumulate. As an appraiser, I also understand how the sum of individual objects in a collection can add up over the years. While many collectors innately know the value of their collection, many have either not recently or never sat down to do a serious analysis of their collection, it's total value and how to protect the collection and how to insure that value in the event of a serious loss. To that end, I have put together a short guide on the steps of how to insure and appraise a collection. I have tried to provide the initial actions that a collector could take to evaluate their collection, determine the values and then translate that information to their insurance company. At end of this book, I have also provided a brief checklist to assist collectors as they work to safeguard their collection. I hope that the readers will learn from this brief eBook and continue to accumulate and enjoy their collections. |
GACspaceguy Member Posts: 2474 From: Guyton, GA Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 09-22-2016 06:26 PM
Thanks to Larry! Great info, makes me want to update my collection inventory that is by now at least two years behind. |
rjurek349 Member Posts: 1190 From: Northwest Indiana Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 09-22-2016 07:06 PM
Great stuff, Larry. Well done! I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing with the hobby. |
Ken Havekotte Member Posts: 2912 From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-22-2016 08:49 PM
Well done Larry! A most useful guide that I am sure many collectors, and not just space related, would find informative, helpful, and useful as it was to me. |
Larry McGlynn Member Posts: 1255 From: Boston, MA Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 09-23-2016 07:08 AM
Thank you guys. It was this website's collectors that drove my writing of this story. I gave them a nod in the book with a link to collectSPACE's message board. |
BMckay Member Posts: 3218 From: MA, USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 09-23-2016 07:50 AM
Great article! You answered many questions that people have. |
DeepSea Member Posts: 68 From: Registered: Jun 2014
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posted 09-23-2016 08:35 AM
An excellent effort. Well done. |
freshspot unregistered
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posted 09-23-2016 10:46 AM
Thanks for writing this ebook, Larry. It is very helpful. |
mode1charlie Member Posts: 1169 From: Honolulu, HI Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 09-23-2016 10:09 PM
Thanks for writing this, Larry. Good stuff. |
music_space Member Posts: 1179 From: Canada Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 09-24-2016 12:13 PM
Thanks, Larry. Again and again on cS, collectors helping collectors... |
Steven Kaplan Member Posts: 140 From: New Jersey Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 09-24-2016 01:00 PM
Thank you, Larry. Important information and much appreciated |
Larry McGlynn Member Posts: 1255 From: Boston, MA Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 09-25-2016 09:03 PM
It was this thread that drove me to write the story on appraising and insuring one's space collection. |
Ade74 Member Posts: 47 From: Peterborough, England Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 10-27-2016 10:04 AM
Can I ask the UK collectSPACE'rs if they have obtained a valuation and, if so, who was the valuer used? |