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Dealer
in American antiques and collectibles, 1975-1982
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Founded Frederick Appraisal, Claims & Estate Services,
April 1982
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Qualified as Certified Member, International Society of Appraisers
(ISA) 1995
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Past-Regional Director of the ISA
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Past
Member of the Board of Directors of the ISA
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Past
Vice-President of the ISA
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Twice past-President, past-Treasurer and Charter Member of
the award-winning National Capital Area Chapter of the ISA
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Past-member,
ISA Examination Committee for “Certified
Appraiser of Personal Property” designator
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Past-chairman,
ISA Education Committee
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Past-chairman
ISA Chapters Relations Committee
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Past
ISA representative to The Appraisal Foundation Advisory Committee,
Washington DC
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ISA
on-site Appraisal Core Course in Appraisal Studies rewrite
project leader
1994; maintained courses from 1994 to 2001
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Team
leader to convert on-site ISA course in Appraisal Studies
to Distance
Education 1998
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Wrote
ISA’s Chapter’s Manual, the ISA
Appraisal Report Writing Standard booklet, and ISA’s
Requalification Course
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Instructor
of ISA Core Courses in Appraisal Studies and ISA
Requalification Course from 1994 to 2001
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Instructor,
Montgomery County Adult Education program in “Antiques”
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Guest
Speaker on “The Tools of the Appraiser and the
Use of a Computer” and “Appraisal Practices in
Moving Claims” at numerous appraisers’ seminars
and at the Philadelphia Antiques Show
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Guest
Speaker on "The Necessity of Appraisals" at
the numerous Claims Prevention and Procedure Council (CPPC)
Eastern Regional Seminars and Annual Conventions
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Guest
Speaker at the CPPC and National Moving and Storage Association
(NMSA) joint Convention
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Guest
Speaker on “Treasurers-not-Trash” at numerous
civic and social club gatherings
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Guest
speaker to Antiques & Collectibles Dealer Association
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Frequent
radio talk show guest appearing on WRC, Washington
DC, WFMD, Frederick, MD, KCEO, San Diego, CA and several other radio talk shows
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Host
of Public Television series Collecting Across America
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Chief
Appraisal Officer for and guest appraiser on PAX TV series
Treasures in Your Home: The World of Collecting
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Information
Provider on the CompuServe Information Service, Collectibles
Forum
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Author
of articles on appraising and claims inspections for ISA's "Appraisers Information Exchange" and for the "CPPC
Newsletter"
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Contributing
Author to the California Household Goods Carriers' Claims
Training & Reference Manual
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Contributing
Editor to Everyone's Money Book (Goodman, Jordan E. and Bloch,
H.I. Sonny, Dearborn Financial Publishing, Inc.,
1993)
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Recipient
of the International Society of Appraisers' “Marketing
Award,” “Distinguished Service Award,” “Lamp
of Knowledge Award,” “Member-of-the-Year Award,” “President’s
Award,” and “Lifetime Achievement Award”
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Quoted
by Woman’s Day, Washington Post, Kipplinger's
Personal Finance Magazine, Good Housekeeping, U.S. News & World
Report, Redbook, Arthritis Today Magazine, Baltimore Sun Newspaper,
Seattle Times, Physicians Financial News, Frederick News Post, and in major antiques & collectibles trade publications
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Experienced
as an expert witness in Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia
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Maintains major computerized data base of 20,000 resources
for over 3200 categories of antiques, collectibles, fine art,
and machinery and equipment, and author of Maloney's
Antiques & Collectibles
Resource Directory – 7th Edition (F & W Publications)
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Chief
Appraisal Officer, ChannelSpace Entertainment Inc. and CollectingChannel.com
1999-2006
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Instructor, Institute of Certified Canadian Auctioneers (ICCA)
2001, 2003, 2005
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Author of the 550+ page Complete Online Course in Personal
Property Appraising available to members of the Association
of Online Appraisers at www.AOAonline.org
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Qualified as Certified Member, Association of Online Appraisers
2001
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Secretary/Treasurer
and Past President of the Association of Online Appraisers
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Architect
and Director of the online appraisal service, AskTheAppraiser.com
2001 to 2006
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Author Appraising
Personal Property: Principles and Methodology 2007
