Have you had a recent bereavement and need to identify the value of items listed in the will?
Your solicitor may have already informed you that a probate valuation is used to enable HMRC to calculate the correct amount of inheritance tax payable, it can also be useful to ascertain the correct value of chattels before they are dispersed amongst family and friends.
We offer specialist probate valuations for customers across Staffordshire, Staffordshire Moorlands, Cheshire, Shropshire and the surrounding area.
We provide these valuations for Inheritance Tax purposes in accordance with Section 160 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984.
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While valuations are primarily carried out for insurance purposes, there are many other reasons to have your items professionally valued, such as validating a private sale or gifting an item to family.
For items over a certain value, a written valuation document may be required by your insurance company. It’s recommended to update this every three years to ensure full protection against the current value of your belongings.
We recommend checking your individual insurance policy, as requirements can vary between providers and some may request valuations to be updated more or less frequently in order for an item to remain fully covered.
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Want to know if your diamond is natural or lab-grown?
With the abundance of synthetics and lab-grown diamonds now available on the market (and often sold by unscrupulous sellers) it’s always best to seek a professional opinion.
It’s particularly important for our customers’ insurance valuations, as we’re able to be certain about each piece’s provenance.
We can provide authenticity paperwork for your diamond jewellery using our state-of-the-art De Beers Diamond Screener, supplied by the GIA.
This £20,000 device determines whether a diamond is natural (a “pass”) or requires further testing if suspected to be laboratory-grown, treated, or synthetic.
Mounted or loose:
All forms of boxed or loose antique jewellery:
We also buy:
We pride ourselves in specialising with both old cuts and modern cuts of diamonds, white to fancy coloured yellow,green and pink diamonds.
We work from ‘rapaport’ diamond charts for monthly diamond market prices and are linked with London jewellers trade groups, with many colleagues in the diamond wholesale trade. We guarantee our offer prices to be highly competitive world prices for your modern cut diamonds, old mine diamonds, European cut diamonds, rose cut diamonds and fancy cuts – especially in their original settings.
Vintage engagement rings are more in demand today than ever before so we need them too!
We can offer verbal support with appraisals on any GIA certified diamond without seeing it in person.
We have a database of customers/collectors looking for the following:
We buy all solid silver, jewellery and coins, new or old.
Bangles, watch chains, rings, chains, all pre 1947 British coins.
Antique hammered coins and silver artifacts. All flatware, trophies, vases,salvers, photo frames, vesta cases, novelty items, miniatures, tea sets, working or broken silver pocket watches, candle sticks etc.