DuMouchelles

Detroit, MI

DuMouchelles is a Detroit auction house and appraisal provider for fine art, jewelry, antiques, and estate collections. The official appraisal page describes its formal written appraisals as fee-based valuations for insurance, trust and estate, and tax purposes, prepared with market research, condition review, comparable sales, rarity, demand, and provenance analysis.

Specialties

• •Fine art, jewelry, antiques, and estate collections
• •Insurance, trust and estate, and tax appraisals
• •Paintings, prints, decorative art, furniture, oriental rugs, sculpture, porcelain, silver, crystal, and ceramics
• •Rare collectibles, luxury goods, antique arms and armor, Asian art, and tribal art

Services

• •Fee-based written appraisal reports prepared for legal purposes
• •USPAP and IRS-qualified appraisal standard language on formal reports
• •Research, photography, documentation, and applicable travel for formal appraisals
• •Complimentary auction estimates for consignment review when a formal appraisal is not needed
• •Walk-in consignment evaluations on Wednesdays and Saturdays

Appraisal Process

The official appraisal process asks clients to submit photos and documentation, identify whether the appraisal is for insurance, trust and estate, or tax, arrange an appointment, allow DuMouchelles appraisers to examine, photograph, catalog, and research the relevant works or objects, and then receive a draft and final written appraisal report.