Description
It is an heirloom that was shipped from Louisiana to Nevada, It was damaged in shipping and I need an appraisal on the undamaged item for my insurance claim. I also need an estimate on what it would cost to fix the two hinges that were damaged. I am providing pictures of the box before and after the damage.
Re: Jerome Thibouville-Lamy Music Box 1800's
For an insurance claim, you need to get a WRITTEN evaluation from a professional so anything you get here is going to be of limited value. Sorry, that's going to involve you paying for the eval.
That said, if you go to PBS.ORG and search you will see that the 'antiques road show' has evaluated a couple of these boxes and you might be able to use that evaulation to support whatever evaluation you get from whomeaver you get as your evaluator.
Just a thought.
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Re: Jerome Thibouville-Lamy Music Box 1800's
If you are looking for a baseline value, you might want to search liveauctioneers.com, just do a search for "Cylinder music boxes". Any that are currently up for auction or sold within the last eight years or so will be listed