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

Tue Mar 8 12:38:55 EST 2022

Dear Hannu,

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€ ...

With best wishes
Dirk

Am 08.03.2022 um 12:48 schrieb Hannu Saarenmaa:
> The answer is "nil". In computer science terms that means it does not 
> exist.  Nil also means "infinite".
>
> Museum objects are irreplaceable. So there is no commercial value.  Or 
> something that can be insured. Natural science collections cannot be 
> insured.
>
> 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.
>
> Anyway, I still prefer to report "nil" or zero value for the 
> irreplaceable.  If I can.
>
> Hannu Saarenmaa www.bioshare.com
>
> On 2022-03-08 11:42, Battermann, Nora wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Greetings from sunny Munich,
>> Nora
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>> Am 2022-02-28 19:50, schrieb 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
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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
>>> 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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