Types of Reports

Specialized Appraisals are needed for:

Private Individuals
Insurance Companies
Litigation Support / Expert Witness Services
Government & Law Enforcement Agencies
Jewelry Industry Professionals
Estate/ Successions

Jewelry Appraisals are important and complicated documents. It is highly recommended that only a Trained Certified Gemologist Appraiser like Mr. Hannon evaluates and documents the quality and value of your jewelry. Our Appraisal Consultation service is designed to provide gemological information in order to identify and authenticate the article submitted for evaluation. To this end, our trained professionals will carefully examine the item and test it using a number of gem testing instruments.

Most insurance companies recommend Jewelry Appraisals be updated every two or three years. Hannon Jewelers will provide a reduced fee for updated reports previously made by us. Please ask us for more details.

We offers the following types of Gemological Reports:

Insurance Appraisal Retail Replacement Value	This report is most commonly referred to as an insurance appraisal. This type of report is necessary for insuring your items against loss or damage. The accuracy and detail included in this report makes it possible to identify or have exact duplicates recreated of these precious items should they ever be lost or stolen.
Estate Evaluation	This type of appraisal is required whether you are an executor, a law firm, a guardian, or accounting firm in order to represent the client’s best interest. We recognize that these personal items have invaluable sentimental or emotional attachment and consider all aspects of the comfort level of the owner.
Dissolution of Marriage	This is a fair market value report for an equal division of common property.
Damage Report	This report expresses the difference in value resulting from damage and estimates the cost of the removal, re-cutting and resetting of gemstones, the value of the re-cut gemstone (after loss of weight), as well as repairing or replacing mountings.
Resale	This appraisal is needed when an owner decide to convert jewelry into immediate cash by selling the items.
Comparison	This report is for a client who brings in a jewelry or gemstone item to verify its identity and/or quality as claimed by the seller. Comparison appraisals usually reflect the item at its most common retail replacement value.
Donation / Gift	These reports are based on fair market value and are necessary for tax deductions of donated items.
Customs Evaluation	U.S. Customs officials may ask for proof that an item of jewelry was not purchased in a foreign country from which an individual has just returned.