Trusts & Estates
Heritage Auctions' Trusts & Estates department offers services to professional advisors, fiduciaries, executors and beneficiaries for the valuation and disposition of tangible personal property. Your Trusts & Estates Specialist will act as your primary contact throughout all stages of the valuation and sale process, advising you on how to best sell the property in order to achieve the highest returns for your single item or large collection spanning multiple categories.
Our services include:
- Proposals for auction or private treaty sales for your clients' collections.
- Formal IRS and USPAP compliant appraisals for estates, tax, insurance and charitable donations from our independent, but affiliate, appraisal company.
- Complimentary valuation consultations.
- Advisory services for collectors.
- Museum Services. Contact Museumservices@HA.com.
- On-site bank vault assessments by our specialists.
- Collection management services.
- Presentations or lectures to estate planning councils, estate settlement departments and successful client groups on the subject of collection management.
My grandmother Elaine Steinbeck, wife of author John Steinbeck, had amassed two storage units full of memorabilia and personal belongings that had been sitting in storage for nearly a decade. Our family turned to Elyse Luray at Heritage Auctions, who oversaw every aspect of the consignment process from storage removal to cataloguing and promotion, up until auction day. She made it quick and easy and our auction was a great success. I don't know what our family would've done without Heritage Auctions.
--- Bahar Kaffaga, John Steinbeck's Grandson