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Caplan's Auction & Appraisal Co.
Caplan's Auction & Appraisal Co. is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Baltimore, Maryland. Listed specialties: Antiques and Personal Property. Services, credentials and other facts stated on their own website are listed below.
Appraiser facts
- Specialties
- Credentials, memberships and roles
None listed in the registry record.
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- Office location
Baltimore, Maryland
- Fees
Not supplied. Ask for written terms that do not depend on value, sale price or outcome.
For comparison only, not this appraiser's fee: 14 FAIR-listed personal property appraisers post an hourly rate on their own websites. The median is $163 an hour, and the middle half charge $150–$199 (checked October 2026).
- Website
- Registry status
Listed · Unclaimed
Listed since 2026-05-16; record edited 2026-08-25.
From their website
- Credentials
- Court Certified Appraisers
- Memberships
- New England Appraisers Society
- Appraises
- jewelry (specialty jewelry appraiser on staff)
- Appraisal services
- certified appraisals for estates, insurance and legal matters
- estate appraisals
- insurance or replacement value appraisals
- How they work
- appraisals by phone, email and walk-in
- Areas served
- Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware
- Experience
- appraisers with 40 years of experience
Stated on caplans.com/trust-%26-experience, caplans.com, caplans.com/services; checked October 14, 2026. Not supplied to FAIR by the appraiser, and FAIR has not verified it. Confirm directly.
Not in this record: written fee terms; service area and inspection options; current availability; source-check date; profile verification-check date.
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Source record and dates
- Source checked
- Not supplied
- Profile record edited
- 2026-08-25
- Listed since
- 2026-05-16
- Source freshness
- Source-check date unavailable
- Source confidence
- Website-backed unclaimed profile
- Source wording
- Antiques and Personal Property
- Service categories
- Antiques, Estate
- Linked source
- caplans.com
- Discovery status
- Unclaimed appraiser profile
- Profile completeness
- Strong public detail
- Profile evidence confidence
- Website-backed public source
- Formal-use routing signals
- Estate and probate
- Why this profile appears
- A public source-evidence URL is attached to this registry profile.
- The profile has a listed office location: Baltimore, MD.
- Listed service categories: Antiques, Estate.
- Listed specialty language: Antiques and Personal Property.
- Source confidence label: Website-backed unclaimed profile.
- The profile remains unclaimed and has a correction or removal path.
Source checks, profile edits and education checks are separate events. Not supplied: source fetched, profile verification-check date, education completed, education evidence checked.
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- Will inspection be remote or in person, and do you cover my location?
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Local read
FAIR lists Caplan's Auction & Appraisal Co. as an unclaimed, website-backed Baltimore, MD profile with Antiques and Estate categories, estate/probate routing, and Antiques and Personal Property specialty, source checked 2026-05-15. FAIR shows the Caplans website but no fee statement, public USPAP education detail, credential field, or claim/control status. The linked Caplans site gives Historic Savage Mill, 8600 Foundry Street suite 2012, Savage, MD, [email protected], and (410)-750-7678; confirm service location because that differs from FAIR's Baltimore service city. Services page describes written estate appraisals for home contents after a death and insurance/replacement appraisals focused on replacement value, plus consignment, outright purchase, real-estate auctions, and clean-out services. It says estate appraisals can cover one item through a full home, and consignment items can be picked up or dropped at the Historic Savage Mill gallery for in-person or online auctions. Personal Representatives page focuses on valuing personal possessions for wills, trusts, and estate inventory schedules. FAQ says Caplans offers delivery/pickup, packed moving of glassware, china, or art, complete estate clean outs, live gallery auctions, weekly online auctions, and a Mid-Atlantic service area. Staff page names John Harris as founder/owner and gives auction and appraisal background. Confirm report type, fee model, inspection method, and whether appraisal, auction, consignment, purchase, real estate, or clean-out services are being requested.
Supported fit is antiques and personal-property work tied to estates, auctions, consignment, replacement-value appraisals, estate inventories, clean outs, and gallery/online sales. Source pages mention furniture, antiques, collectibles, oil paintings, jewelry, gold, silver, gems, watches, rugs, old toys, glassware, crystal, leaded glass windows, lamps, collections, art packing/moving, personal possessions, real estate auctions, and estate liquidation workflows.
Ask Caplans to separate appraisal, auction, consignment, purchase, and clean-out roles in writing before engagement. Share photos, inventory lists, room count, object categories, condition notes, location, deadlines, and the intended use of any written report. Ask whether the fee is hourly, flat, commission-based, or offset against sale proceeds; whether an item could be bought outright instead of sold at auction; and how pickup, storage, insurance, reserve, and seller-payout terms work.
Written from registry data and this appraiser's public materials. Descriptive only — not a certification, ranking, or endorsement.
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