[Nhcoll-l] [External] Advice on estimating the value of donated collections?

[Tacker, Christopher]

Everyone has offered good advice here.

Apart from conflicts of interest, the one that does the appraisal stands to get involved with the state or federal tax enforcement. If the appraisal is called into question, that represents a nearly limitless time sink in hearings or in court.

We tell donors that we will work with whatever appraiser they designate. We still get offers of "I'll donate this if you'll get me an appraisal for X amount of money." That's a big "no, thank you."

Chris Tacker

Chris Tacker, Ph.D., P.G.
Research Curator of Geology
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones St. | Raleigh, NC  27601

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Good morning all,



A colleague at a regional museum reached out to ask me for advice on how to estimate the value of a collection of donated birds (mostly skins, some taxidermy mounts). He’s not interested in individual values for each piece, but a big picture “lump sum.” I’m sure this has come up on the listserve before, but I haven’t been able to locate it. If anyone has ideas or can point me in the direction of a resource to send to my colleague, I’d really appreciate it! I have no appraisal skills myself – and I’m a botanist – so I’m at a total loss on my end.



Cheers,

Sarah



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Sarah Taylor, PhD


Collections Manager, CONN

George Safford Torrey Herbarium
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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