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Office Hours Information from March 2025

International Society of Appraisers

This is because we use different approaches for determining fair market value and replacement value. When determining fair market value, we use the sales comparison approach to analyze comparable sales data (i.e., What if your item contains intrinsic materials? sold prices). current asking prices).

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What Kind of Appraisal?

Drishti LLC Appraisers

For one-of-a-kind artworks, the basis for comparables is usually other works by the same artist, or artwork of similar renown, age, materials and genre. Comparables for Fair Market Value are relatively recent, actualized sales of pieces by the same artist or artwork of a similar renown, era, materials and genre.