Please note: Mark Moran's opinions of value given at this event are informal, and may not be used for insurance or charitable donations, which require a certified appraisal.
You may bring in one item, unless it is part of a set (such as a tea set). A collection of similar items does not constitute a set (such as a box of costume jewelry).
Here are examples of items Mark Moran can evaluate:
- Americana, including autographs and historical documents.
- Fine art, including paintings, drawings, prints and statuary.
- Furniture (usually smaller pieces are best).
- Ceramics, including figural pottery, vases, dishes, kitchenware and stoneware.
- Glassware, including marbles and souvenir items.
- Vintage photographs, including snapshots, tintypes, ambrotypes and daguerreotypes.
- Advertising, including posters, lithographed tin, paper and figural objects.
- Folk art, including carvings, quilts, weathervanes, windmill weights and "outsider" art.
- Assorted toys, including dolls (bisque, composition and plastic), windups and mechanical banks.
- Metalware, including iron, bronze, brass, pot metal, silver, silver plate.
- Clocks, including mantel, hanging and figural.
- Costume jewelry, including brooches, bracelets, earrings.
- Musical Instruments, including string, wind and reed instruments.
- Antique and vintage lighting of all kinds.
- Books.
- Sports Memorabilia.
Here are items Mark Moran CANNOT evaluate:
- All weapons, including swords and knives (though folding knives with advertising are accepted)
- Traps (like leg-hold)
- Nazi memorabilia
- Coins and paper money
- Fine jewelry, including precious gems
- Beanie Babies
Mark may or may not be able to evaluate the following items. If you would like to bring in one of the following items, please call the library and we can contact him to see if it's feasible. Suggested categories for advance inquiry include, but are not limited to: Oriental, Native American and other tribal objects (African, Oceanic); ancient artifacts (Egyptian and other early cultures); fossils and minerals; automotive items; nautical and military-related objects; records; antique tools and technological objects (typewriters, cameras, assorted machinery or instruments for scientific measure, like sextants, telescopes, microscopes, etc.).