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Why Get a Valuation?

Probate:

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 in Staffordshire and the surrounding area.

We provide these valuations for inheritance tax purposes in accordance with section 160 of the inheritance tax act 1984.

Charges:

  • Call out including the first hour £120 + vat
  • Thereafter- £60 per hour + vat

Insurance:

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.

NEW! LAB GROWN DIAMOND TESTING SERVICE:

With the abundance of synthetics and lab-grown diamonds on the market and often sold by unscrupulous sellers, it’s always best to seek a professional opinion.

We 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.”

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We offer FREE appraisals on:

Diamonds or Gemstones:

Mounted or loose:

  • Diamonds
  • Emeralds
  • Sapphires
  • Rubies
  • Natural and Cultured Pearls
  • Fine Jade
And almost every other coloured gemstone, providing they are of good natural quality or part of a fine piece of jewellery.

Antique Jewellery:

All forms of boxed or loose antique jewellery:

  • Any rings or bracelets
  • Antique charm bracelets
  • Mourning jewellery
  • Medieval jewellery
  • Enamelled jewellery
  • Georgian eye rings
  • Hand painted miniatures
  • Novelty pins
  • Cluster brooches
  • Chandellier earrings
  • Hair lockets
  • Hand motif rings
  • Victorian hidden message rings
  • 18th/19th century snake necklaces

Other items:

We also buy:

  • All foreign gold jewellery from India, UAE, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Pakistan etc
  • Vintage or designer Costume jewellery
  • Large or heavy gold jewellery, heavy chains, rings and pendants.
  • Solid gold accessories such as lighters, glasses, wallets, cigarette cases, snuff boxes, compacts, pencils, novelty items.

Diamonds:

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.

Luxury Jewellery Brands:

We have a database of customers/collectors looking for the following:

  • Van Cleef and Arpels
  • Tiffany
  • Cartier
  • Louis Vuitton
  • Bvlgari
  • Theo Fennel
  • Harry Winston
  • Chopard
  • Georg Jensen
  • Buccellati
  • Boucheron
  • Hermes
  • Chanel
  • Mikimoto
  • De Beers
  • Piaget
  • Fabergé

Silver:

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.

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