Heritage Auction Galleries

	Matthew S. Wilcox Consignment Director - Fine Arts - Philadelphia MattW@HA.com 1-800-872-6467 x1622
Matthew S. Wilcox is a Philadelphia-based member of the Appraisers Association of America and the former Vice President of Trusts & Estates at Freeman's Auctions. A graduate of Bowdoin College (Maine) Matthew holds a Master's degree in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from George Washington Univsersity. He began his auction career over a decade ago at Butterfield & Butterfield (now Bonhams & Butterfields), where he was Operations Manager of their Los Angeles office.

	Kathleen Guzman Appraisal Services KathleenG@HA.com 1-800-872-6467 x1672
Kathleen Guzman is a recognized appraiser and auctioneer with over twenty five years of experience in the art and antiques industry. She has personally auctioned over 1,500 sales with over 500,000 objects valued at over $1/2 Billion US dollars. She brings 15 years experience from the auction house Christie's, selling such items as a Monet watercolor for $4.3 Million and the Ruby Slippers from the Wizard of Oz for $660,000. She was the former President of Christie's East and President of Phillips.

Heritage Auction Galleries is "only" the world's 3rd largest auction house, but by far the safest choice when valuable estate property needs to be sold. Fiduciaries are invited to consider these important facts:

1. Heritage can auction all of the art and collectibles in your client's estate, unlike the two larger firms you probably deal with now, who typically sell the less expensive objects in bulk, or offload them to auctioneers who cater primarily to dealers.
2. Approximately 75% of items in Heritage auctions sell to retail collectors, the highest percentage by far of all major auction houses.
3. Collectors rarely buy in bulk, but tend to buy exactly what they want and are willing to pay much more than dealers.
4. Unlike most auction houses, Heritage focuses most of its marketing directly to private collectors through direct mail and the Internet.
5. According to Compete.com (the Nielsen ratings equivalent for the Internet) Heritage's website receives three times as much traffic as Sothebys.com and Christies.com combined.
6. Heritage auctions almost 300,000 individual lots per year, significantly more than any other major auction house. Every lot is accurately described, with enlargeable 4-color online photographs, even objects that sell for just a few hundred dollars or less.

Simply put, if you are liquidating a major estate and do not get a proposal from Heritage Auction Galleries, you are probably costing your clients significant money.

Worldwide internet presence translates into realizing the highest prices at auction for your consigned property. Heritage serves over 325,000 registered online bidder members and over 600,000 collectors on our mailing list. This means your material will be viewed by far more qualified bidders, multiples more, when consigned to Heritage.

Every day over 20,000 people visit our website. We have established HA.com as the leading online bidding platform of any full-service auction house. Heritage is here to help people both acquire wonderful objects, and, at the appropriate time of their choosing, assist them in selling via our global consignment platforms.

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Newsletter Articles:

• Appraisers' Wake Up Call
• Review: The Expert Versus the Object: Judging Fakes and False Attributions in the Visual Arts
• Turning Copper Into Gold
• Art & Taxes
• Congress Takes the Stuffing out of Taxidermy Charitable Donations
• The "Cultural Casualties" of 9/11 Suggest Need for Better Collections Management
• Replacing Mystery with Transparency & Trust
• Uncle Sam Wants His Art Back
• Better Estate Appraisals
• Fakes: The Best (or Worst) of 2007
• Know Thyself: Collector, Dealer or Investor
• Of Stained Glass and Pyramids: Copyright and Art
• Estate Tax Liability: The Fine Art of Determining Fair Market Value
• Appraising, an Individual or Team Effort
• Minority and Marketability Discounts for Fine Art Appraisals
• Changes in Charitable Donation Rules

Appraisals Now Available

Having assembled a superb team of experienced specialists, in fields ranging from American Indian Art to Civil War memorabilia to comic books, we are pleased to add to our business rostrum a full service Appraisals Department for our Trust & Estates clients.

Trustees, executors and fiduciaries responsible for estate tangible property can now avail themselves of the best suite of estate services anywhere, including: authoritative estate appraisals, auction services and private treaty sales.

Heritage meets the unique needs of executors, trustees and fiduciaries through a combination of innovation, uncompromising integrity and old-fashioned friendly customer service. Our experts are equipped with the resources, understanding and sophistication needed to provide the high caliber of service you and your clients deserve.