Online Data Bases

Yesterday's post about searching archived lots (click HERE to read or scroll down) at both Sotheby's and Christie's brought two comments to the Appraiser Workshops blog (both are available to read by scrolling to the end of the post and clicking on comments). One comment was about the Liveauctioneers site and the other one about ArtFact. Both comments were left anonymously, but I believe one was directly from Liveauctioneers and the other was directly from ArtFact. That is fine, it is good to see each firm monitoring content on the web and blogs. Both sites are excellent resources for the personal property appraiser. Depending upon my needs, I use both on a regular basis along with p4A and AskArt and a few others.

In the 2008 edition of the Journal of Advanced Appraisal Studies there was an excellent article contribution from Andrew Richmond of Garth's Auctions entitled One Auctioneer's Evaluation of the Online Price Database. It is a very worthwhile article, and one that all appraisers should read and consider when subscribing to online databases. Andrew discusses many of the uses, benefits and functionalities of several price databases. The September 2008 issue of Maine Antique Digest reviewed the Journal of Advanced Appraisal Studies and discussed in detail Mr. Richmond's article contribution. (It should be noted that Andrew Richmond is associated with online price database p4A.com as a content provider and he also writes a column for MAD).

Click HERE to purchase the journal, and click HERE to read the Maine Antique Digest review of the Journal of Advanced Appraisal Studies and Mr. Richmond's article. The journal is published by the non-profit ISA Education Foundation (soon to become the Foundation for Appraisal Education) with all proceeds going to support appraisal educational programs.