Where can I get my quilt appraised?

Contact a local museum, quilt guild, or historical society. Ask for recommendations of certified appraisers in your region. You also might look for quilt shows and antique fairs where appraisals are offered. For written appraisals of quilts, especially for insurance purposes, find a certified appraiser with experience evaluating quilts.

The Professional Association of Appraisers: Quilted Textiles (PAAQT.) www.quiltappraisers.org, although a separate entity from the American Quilters Society PAAQT is a non-profit organization whose membership is comprised only of appraisers that have been comprehensively tested and certified by AQS, and have proven expertise in the area of quilts and related textiles.

Other appraiser organizations are:

• The Appraisers Association of America
• The International Society of Appraisers
• The American Society of Appraisers

Shelly Zegart has written two comprehensive articles entitled Appraising Your Quilts Part 1 and Appraising Your Quilts Part 2.

 

Prepared by Merikay Waldvogel, researcher, writer and curator of quilt related history, 8/00.

 

 

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