Gather up your heirlooms, vintage treasures, and collectables and bring them to our antique appraisal event with author and antiques expert, Mark Moran, on Saturday, August 24th at the Plainfield Community Center!

Mr. Moran was an appraiser on PBS's Antiques Roadshow for 9 seasons, author or co-author of over 25 books, including three editions of annual Warman's Antiques & Collectibles, was senior editor of Antiques and Collectibles books for Krause Publications in Iola, WI, and has also been a contributing editor for Antique Trader magazine. He has served as editor of Antique Review East magazine; as producer of Atlantique City, an antique show held in Atlantic City, N.J.; and as editorial director of F+W Media's Antiques Group.

Mr. Moran bought and sold antiques for more than 30 years, specializing in vintage folk art, Americana, and fine art. He has been active as an appraiser of antiques and fine art for more than 20 years.

Now you can have your special items appraised by an expert right in Plainfield!

The cost is $15.00 per item and you must pre-register for the event. You can have as many items as you like appraised, but must pay $15.00 for each item appraised as each item gets its own time slot. Please pay for your appraisals when registering for the event. You can pay by cash or check- checks can be made out to "Plainfield Public Library".

The easiest way to register is to stop into the library to sign up. Please provide your:
*name
*phone number
*and description of the item(s) to be appraised.

If you can't make it in to the library to sign up, you can call us during business hours at: 715-335-4523, send a message to us through Facebook Messenger, or email us at director@plainfieldlibrary.org.

Categories of objects for appraisal 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Americana- including autographs and historical documents.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, silver plate.
Clocks- including mantel, hanging and figural.
Costume jewelry- including brooches, bracelets, 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 Mr. 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.). When in doubt, email inquiry can often address this. Mr. Moran's email address is: moranm1953@gmail.com

We are so excited for this event! Spectators are welcome to come as well. The appraisals will be done just like you're watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow, so you can hear about the items and listen to the appraisal process.

ALSO, the library will be holding a book sale in the meeting room from Thursday, August 22 - Saturday, August 24th from 9am - 5pm each day.

Spread the word, invite your friends, and join us on Saturday, August 24th!!

Here is Mr. Moran doing an appraisal on PBS's Antiques Roadshow:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/appraisals/frazer-axle-grease-self-fra...