Certified Appraisals & Value Inventories
Estate - Insurance - Legal

I appraise coins, jewelry, art, antiques, furniture, china, silver, collectibles, guns, sports memorabilia, stamps and household property.

Estate Appraisals
I specialize in estate property, entire house & apartment value inventories for probate, property divisions & estate sales. I come to your location and photograph your property from everyday household items to antiquities. Then develop a written report according to what you need. I have extensive experience with coins, jewelry & art (see below).

Coins
Get your U.S. & foreign coins and currency appraised by an experienced numismatic appraiser. With my experience I can identify thousands of U.S. & foreign coins and paper money without research. Includes coins from the P, D, S, W, C, CC, D & O United States mints and foreign, confederate, obsolete & U.S. B.E.P. currency. I also appraise U.S. & foreign Silver, Gold & Platinum Bullion. 

Fine & Costume Jewelry
​I can identify precious and semi precious gemstones including identification by thermal conductivity & reflectivity. I can distinguish precious metals such as 800, 830 & 925 silver; 10K, 12K, 14K, 18K, 417, 585, 750, etc. gold and 900 & 950 platinum. I have appraised mourning jewelry, tribal and ethnic jewelry as well as thousands of pieces of costume jewelry. I also have extensive training on faux silver such as German Silver, Nickel Silver, White Brass & Alpacca Silver.

Fine Art
I have appraised the following mediums of art: Intaglio prints from both copper & zinc plate engravings, etchings, drypoints, mezzotints & aquatints. Other prints like folios on vellum, stone lithos, offset lithographs, serigraphs & silkscreens, linocut, woodcut embossed & wood block prints. Sculptures & art made of art glass, stained glass, crystal, burl, olive wood, bronze, brass, copper, spelter, zinc, steel, chalkware, resin, cold cast bronze & ashtadhatu. Drawings with mediums like pastel, pencil, charcoal & marker. Paintings with oil, acrylic, gouache, tempera, watercolor, airbrush on canvas, palette knife, multimedias & hand embellished giclees on canvas.

Community, Church & Group Classes
Learn the basics of identifying and appraising art, antiques, jewelry, coins, and collectibles. Get tips on what makes things valuable and the best ways to sell them. Examine things like lithophane, trench art, U.S. Zone china, a U.S. 3 cent nickel, precious gemstones, mourning jewelry & German silver. No pictures or books in this class, everything is "hands on" and the instructor's notes are given to each student. Ask how you can get a class for your small group. Instructor David Schlueter is a certified appraiser.

​​David Schlueter, USPAP Certified -
​Personal Property Appraiser
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Metro Area
Call 612-412-1899

I am USPAP Certified - Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice certification, the highest certification in the industry.  V