[NHCOLL-L:939] Carolina parakeet & Passenger pigeon - values

[Remko Jansonius]

Dear colleagues -

The insurance company that covers the collection in my museum has 
asked how we have come to the  values placed on the most valuable 
items in our collection, that being a Caroline parakeet and a 
Passenger pigeon. I have no idea how the previous curator established 
those values ...

Does anyone have a Carolina parakeet or a Passenger pigeon in his/her 
collection? Was it officially appraised? Since they are extinct, 
different rules may apply to their appraisals than for specimens that 
are alive and kicking ...

I know issues like these have been discussed before, and I would go 
to the archives, but they seem inaccessible, at least for now ...

Thanks for you input!


Remko Jansonius
Director of Collections
Miami Museum of Science
3280 South Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33129

t: 305-646-4252
f: 305-646-4300
e: rjansonius at miamisci.org

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