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January 18, 2017 | 1:00pm - 3:30pm | |||||
Appraisers Association of America | |||||
212 West 35th Street, 11th Floor | |||||
New York City | |||||
How to Analyze and Appraise
In this illustrated course on analyzing and appraising historic documents, letters and manuscripts, Stuart Lutz, AAA will focus on three segments: Part 1: General introduction to the field; Stuart will discuss popular collecting categories, the categorization of manuscripts, rarity, commodity items and truly historical manuscripts, and price. Part 2: Authenticity: He will discuss clues to determine an intentional forgery; demonstrate how to determine if something is a machine signature and other types of signatures. Part 3: Historic documents: The challenges of valuing unique manuscripts and the tax implications of self-created archives. The class will have the opportunity to see authentic and forged items.
2.5 CE credits FEE:
Stuart Lutz, the owner of Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. of Short Hills, New Jersey, has a quarter-century of experience buying, selling, authenticating and appraising historic documents, manuscripts, letters, autographs and signed books. He is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America in the field of Books and Manuscript: Historical Documents. He belongs to the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the Manuscript Society and the Professional Autograph Dealers Association. Mr. Lutz has written widely on the field, including The William Jefferson Clinton Concise Handwriting Study and the chapter “Historical Documents, Letters and Manuscripts” in Appraising Art: The Definitive Guide to Appraising the Fine and Decorative Arts, published by the Appraisers Association of America. He is the document authenticator for the Freeman’s auction house in Philadelphia and he can frequently be seen appraising on Pawn Stars. He is building the largest archive of Vietnam War materials in private hands and is the author of the oral history book The Last Leaf: Voices of History’s Last-Known Survivors.
All cancellations must be made a week prior to the program to receive a refund.
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