Antique Appraisal Event with Mark Moran

Join us in the Municipal Auditorium at City Hall on Saturday, March 8, for a three-hour antique appraising event! Antiques expert and author Mark Moran will appraise 40 local heirlooms ranging from fine art to glassware, toys, and more. 

All appraisals require registration. Due to great interest in this event, Mr. Moran cannot take walk-ins, and we are opening registration to Wisconsin residents. 

Spectators who would just like to watch the appraisals are welcome to drop in without registering.

 If you would like to register for an appraisal, please contact the library at: (608) 348-7441 ext. 4

*Limit of 1 antique per person

Categories of objects may include:

• Fine art, including paintings, drawings, prints and statuary
• Furniture (photos of large pieces may be sent in advance)
• 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; also pocket and wristwatches
• Costume jewelry, including brooches, bracelets, earrings
• Musical Instruments, including string, wind, and reed instruments
• Antique and vintage lighting
• Books
• Sporting Memorabilia

Excluded items: 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

Please email outreach@plattevillepubliclibrary.org for registration questions.

About the Presenter

Mark Moran has over 20 years of appraisal experience and has co-authored more than two dozen books on antiques. He has appeared as a guest expert on "Antiques Roadshow" and has appraised antiques and collectibles at more than 1,000 events across the Country.

Moran is available to make home visits for people with big things or fragile things (or a lot of things). House calls are $75 an hour, and there is no mileage charge if they are within 10 miles of the appraisal event site. To arrange, call 715-281-5060 or email moranm1953@gmail.com.

*Opinions of value are informal, and may not be used for insurance or charitable donations, which require a certified appraisal.

Registration is required for this event.

All are welcome to drop in to watch the process. Mark’s vast experience and knowledge makes this event entertaining for the entire audience!