[NHCOLL-L:2416] Donation appraisals

[Tiffany Adrain]

In the past few weeks I've had several people ask me what their fossil 
finds and collections are worth, and how to determine the value of their 
donations for tax purposes. The requests range from the value of a single 
bone, to a large mineral collection.

Are there any guidelines or information about this for collections staff 
and the public?  Our collection policy makes the donor responsible for 
having specimens appraised (we don't do valuations or appraisals), but I'd 
like to provide a bit more information for our donors.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Tiffany.





Tiffany Adrain
Collections Manager
Paleontology Repository
Department of Geoscience
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

tel: 319 335 1822
fax: 319 335 1821
email: tiffany-adrain at uiowa.edu
http://www.uiowa.edu/~geology/paleo