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Robert Pearlman
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posted 09-22-2016 03:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 09-22-2016 06:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks to Larry! Great info, makes me want to update my collection inventory that is by now at least two years behind.

rjurek349
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posted 09-22-2016 07:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for rjurek349   Click Here to Email rjurek349     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great stuff, Larry. Well done! I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing with the hobby.

Ken Havekotte
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posted 09-22-2016 08:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ken Havekotte   Click Here to Email Ken Havekotte     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 09-23-2016 07:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Larry McGlynn   Click Here to Email Larry McGlynn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 09-23-2016 07:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for BMckay   Click Here to Email BMckay     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great article! You answered many questions that people have.

DeepSea
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posted 09-23-2016 08:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for DeepSea     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
An excellent effort. Well done.

freshspot
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posted 09-23-2016 10:46 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for writing this ebook, Larry. It is very helpful.

mode1charlie
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posted 09-23-2016 10:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mode1charlie   Click Here to Email mode1charlie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for writing this, Larry. Good stuff.

music_space
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posted 09-24-2016 12:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for music_space   Click Here to Email music_space     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks, Larry. Again and again on cS, collectors helping collectors...

Steven Kaplan
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posted 09-24-2016 01:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Steven Kaplan   Click Here to Email Steven Kaplan     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you, Larry. Important information and much appreciated

Larry McGlynn
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posted 09-25-2016 09:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Larry McGlynn   Click Here to Email Larry McGlynn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It was this thread that drove me to write the story on appraising and insuring one's space collection.

Ade74
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posted 10-27-2016 10:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ade74   Click Here to Email Ade74     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can I ask the UK collectSPACE'rs if they have obtained a valuation and, if so, who was the valuer used?

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