Join us on Saturday, May 18, 2024 for a 3-hour antique appraising event! Antiques expert and author Mark Moran will appraise 40 local heirlooms ranging from fine art and toys to books and more! Spectators are welcome throughout the program and Mr. Moran's appraisals will be presented on a large screen for all to see.

All appraisals require pre-registration.

Due to the tremendous interest in this event, Mr. Moran will not be able to take walk-ins. Please register with your name, contact information, and a description of the item you'd like to have appraised that meets the following requirements. 

Categories of objects may include:

• Americana, including autographs and historical documents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 and silver plate
• Clocks, including mantel, hanging and figural
• Costume jewelry, including brooches, bracelets and earrings
• Musical Instruments, including string, wind and reed instruments
• Antique and vintage lighting of all kinds
• Books
• Sports 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.

Questions about objects not covered here can be submitted to Moran in advance to determine if they are appropriate. 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.).

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

Mr. 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.

Mark F. Moran Appraisals of Antiques & Fine Art
N7326 Maple Ridge Trail
Iola, Wis. 54945
715-281-5060
moranm1953@gmail.com