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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Hannu,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">1€ would be better; within the EU (and
the single market) you have no customs borders anyway, and if you
need to send materials to Norway, Switzerland or Iceland, 1€ would
be preferable to avoid import taxes. Usually, the threshold for
import tax is low (until the most recent amendment this year, the
minor threshold value was 22€). Colleagues were charged recently
few cent because the declared value was 5€ ... <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">With best wishes</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dirk<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 08.03.2022 um 12:48 schrieb Hannu
Saarenmaa:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:dd05fdb4-3195-1817-3ae3-5a56623776ee@bioshare.com">The
answer is "nil". In computer science terms that means it does not
exist. Nil also means "infinite".
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Museum objects are irreplaceable. So there is no commercial
value. Or something that can be insured. Natural science
collections cannot be insured.
<br>
<br>
My company bioshare.com regularly sends collections over the
European Union border, for digitization, that is. While doing
that, we have to put something in the customs forms. And to inform
our insurance company. So we put there the value of the paper
sheets which carry the [invaluable] herbarium sheets, or other
objects. That currently is 28€ per specimen. Do not laugh. This
is how it works.
<br>
<br>
Anyway, I still prefer to report "nil" or zero value for the
irreplaceable. If I can.
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Hannu Saarenmaa <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bioshare.com">www.bioshare.com</a>
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On 2022-03-08 11:42, Battermann, Nora wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear all,
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I thought this a very interesting discussion but understand that
it mainly concerned US institutions. I'd be interested to hear
from European institutions too - how do you estimate the values
of donated collections? I am not aware of a list of appraisers
who specialize in natural history collections in Germany for
example and wonder how other institutions handle acquisitions,
especially donations.
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Greetings from sunny Munich,
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Nora
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Am 2022-02-28 19:50, schrieb Tacker, Christopher:
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<blockquote type="cite">Everyone has offered good advice here.
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Apart from conflicts of interest, the one that does the
appraisal
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stands to get involved with the state or federal tax
enforcement. If
<br>
the appraisal is called into question, that represents a
nearly
<br>
limitless time sink in hearings or in court.
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<br>
We tell donors that we will work with whatever appraiser they
<br>
designate. We still get offers of "I'll donate this if you'll
get me
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an appraisal for X amount of money." That's a big "no, thank
you."
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Chris Tacker
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Chris Tacker, Ph.D., P.G.
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
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Good morning all,
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A colleague at a regional museum reached out to ask me for
advice on
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how to estimate the value of a collection of donated birds
(mostly
<br>
skins, some taxidermy mounts). He’s not interested in
individual
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values for each piece, but a big picture “lump sum.” I’m sure
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this has come up on the listserve before, but I haven’t been
able to
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locate it. If anyone has ideas or can point me in the
direction of a
<br>
resource to send to my colleague, I’d really appreciate it! I
have
<br>
no appraisal skills myself – and I’m a botanist – so I’m at a
<br>
total loss on my end.
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Cheers,
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Sarah
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