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Leaving Your Art Collection to Your Family
How to prepare an art collection for your heirs: inventory, documents, a letter of wishes, and fair market value vs. appraisal for estates and taxes.
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Plain-English guides to the paperwork, values and decisions that come with collecting Park West art, written by collectors.
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Caring for Framed Art at Home
How to care for framed art at home: avoid sun and humidity, hang securely, clean glass and frames safely, and store pieces without damage.
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Selling a Park West Piece Privately: A Practical Checklist
How to sell Park West art privately: realistic pricing vs. appraisal, the paperwork buyers expect, safe payment, insured shipping and closing your records.
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How to Photograph Your Art Collection (With Just a Phone)
How to photograph framed art with a phone for insurance and resale: the six shots every piece needs, avoiding glare, and naming and storing the files.
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Park West Edition and Medium Terms, Explained
Glossary of Park West art terms: serigraph, giclée, lithograph, embellished, sculptograph, hand-signed, and edition markings AP, HC, EA, BAT and Roman.
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How to Read Your Park West Invoice (and the Terms You Sign)
Understand your Park West invoice: registration numbers, credits and totals, plus the terms on arbitration, all sales final, returns, claims and delivery.
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When Your Park West Art Arrives: The First Hour Matters
What to do when Park West art is delivered: report damage in writing within 10 days, keep the box, and inspect and photograph every new piece. Checklist.
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How a Park West Trade-Up Works: The Numbers, the Fee and the 5x Rule
How a Park West art trade-up works: credit is the hammer price minus $199 per piece, and the new purchase must be about five times the trade. Worked example.
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How to Read a Park West Certificate of Authenticity
Learn to read a Park West Certificate of Authenticity line by line: registration number, medium, signature and edition breakdown, using a real certificate.
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Park West Appraisals Explained: What the Number Means (and Doesn’t)
What a Park West appraisal value really means: retail replacement price vs. resale value, and when it works for insurance, taxes and estates. Real example.
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How to Organize Art Appraisals for Your Insurer
A 7-step system for organizing Park West certificates, appraisals and invoices for your insurer, from registration-number matching to the schedule.
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