Have you ever had part of your collection appraised?

[Jobu]

I agree that each of us should be able to come up with a reasonable estimate for most of our cards. My question is whether self-evaluation is sufficient for an insurance company? It seems that they would want/need a third party to protect against fraud.

[ALR-bishop]

I would not care what someone else thought my collection was worth except for insurance purposes if alive and for estate purposes if dead ( and will specifies distribution to heirs versus sale by executor). Your executor should know how to either sell it or get it valued.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Your executor should know how to either sell it or get it valued.

Yup, someone would have to execute me to try and take my collection of cardboard....

I'm going to have to guess that there's probably a lot of people that read this board that can do a better job of appraising there own collection than having someone else do it.

[Wildfireschulte]

I suppose that I could come up with my own appraisal if I took the time to dig through all of the boxes - kind of tricky to set a value on all of the '87 Donruss and '90 Score cards - there's some gold in there.