As Estate Appraisers, Personal Property Appraisers or Antiques Appraisers, you are frequently confronted to having to determine the value of paintings you know nothing or very little about.

Many are unsigned and anonymous paintings. Others have illegible signatures. The vast majority lacks documentation, provenance or a certificate of authenticity.

A brass tag on the frame, a signature or an old inscription on the verso, is no guarantee the painting is really by some famous painter.

Even the documents, when there are any, old bills of sale, old certificates and old appraisals, do not say much about authenticity.

Obviously, at a time when the number of forgeries exceeds the number of authentic paintings for all the major artists, an appraiser cannot simply hope or assume that the paintings he is looking at are authentic.

On the other hand, it would be equally dramatic to appraise at $5,000 a painting that is really worth $200,000 and indeed valuable paintings are rediscovered every day.

To resolve these questions, to determine what is what, to separate the real from the fake, to have certitudes instead of hoping for a lucky guess, you can turn to us.

Authenticating, researching, analyzing, testing, comparing, investigating, is what we do. You can incorporate our reports in your appraisals. We determine authenticity and deliver complete, documented and fully illustrated supporting reports. We issue certificates of authenticity (COA) and of attribution. For paintings of lesser value we tell you when and where they were painted and their relative merit.

Fakes, copies, forgeries, reproductions, doctored works, we point out to you.

Now you know what you are looking at. Uncertainty has dissipated. You can calculate and establish value. You can do your job without open questions. The risk of a dramatic mistake has been eliminated.

We are easy to reach and courteous, quick and affordable.

Please call toll free 1-866-484-8017 for a free and confidential consultation. Ask for Mark Winter please.