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Dransfield Jewelers
Dransfield Jewelers is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Richmond, Virginia. Listed specialties: Fine Art and Jewelry. Services, credentials and other facts stated on their own website are listed below.
Appraiser facts
- Credentials, memberships and roles
None listed in the registry record.
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- Office location
Richmond, Virginia
- 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: 112 FAIR-listed art, antique and jewelry appraisers post an hourly rate on their own websites. The median is $175 an hour, and the middle half charge $133–$250 (checked October 2026).
- Website
- Registry status
Listed · Unclaimed
Listed since 2026-05-17; record edited 2026-08-25.
From their website
- Appraisal services
- certified appraisal paperwork with jewelry purchased
- testing of metals and stones to identify jewelry materials
- Experience
- since 1991
Stated on dransfieldjewelers.com/services, dransfieldjewelers.com/faq, dransfieldjewelers.com/about; checked October 14, 2026. Not supplied to FAIR by the appraiser, and FAIR has not verified it. Confirm directly.
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Source record and dates
- Source checked
- Not supplied
- Profile record edited
- 2026-08-25
- Listed since
- 2026-05-17
- Source freshness
- Source-check date unavailable
- Source confidence
- Website-backed unclaimed profile
- Source wording
- Fine Art, Jewelry
- Service categories
- Fine art, Jewelry
- Linked source
- dransfieldjewelers.com
- Discovery status
- Unclaimed appraiser profile
- Profile completeness
- Strong public detail
- Profile evidence confidence
- Website-backed public source
- Formal-use routing signals
- Unknown
- Why this profile appears
- A public source-evidence URL is attached to this registry profile.
- The profile has a listed office location: Richmond, VA.
- Listed service categories: Fine art, Jewelry.
- Listed specialty language: Fine Art, Jewelry.
- 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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Local read
Dransfield Jewelers is a website-backed, unclaimed FAIR profile in Richmond, VA, with Fine Art and Jewelry listed in the registry. The member site supports the jewelry side much more strongly than a broad fine-art appraisal practice: it describes a Shockoe Slip storefront at 1308 East Cary Street, more than 30 years in Richmond, and a team of designer goldsmiths, jewelers, gemologists, and a curator. Its public materials focus on custom engagement jewelry, modern heirloom makeovers, one-of-a-kind gifts, fine fashion jewelry, diamond and gemstone pieces, curated artist-jeweler collections, rotating art-jewelry exhibitions, repairs, resizing, scrap purchasing, scrap trade-ins, and limited jewelry consignment. The custom-process page says in-house jewelers can work from existing pieces, sketches, stones, and client inspiration, and the services page says jewelry purchased from the store comes with appraisal paperwork. FAIR does not show a public fee statement, USPAP education detail, credential field, formal-use routing signal, or claimed profile control for this listing. Use this as a Richmond jewelry comparison lead, especially for custom, estate, repair, and store-purchased jewelry paperwork questions, while confirming directly whether they prepare standalone appraisal reports for jewelry not purchased from Dransfield and whether any listed Fine Art category applies beyond art jewelry.
Member-owned evidence supports jewelry more than general fine art: custom engagement pieces, modern heirloom redesign, precious-metal and gemstone work, estate jewelry, repairs, resizing, consignment, scrap purchase/trade-in, artist-jeweler collections, and rotating art-jewelry exhibitions. FAIR lists Fine Art and Jewelry, but the public site should be used to confirm whether any non-jewelry fine-art appraisal service is actually offered.
Before outreach, separate the request type: store-purchased jewelry paperwork, a standalone appraisal report, repair or resizing, heirloom redesign, gemstone replacement, estate jewelry, consignment, or scrap sale/trade-in. Ask who performs valuation work, what report format is available, whether outside items are accepted, what documents or photos they need, whether fees are independent of value or purchase outcome, and what timeline applies.
Written from registry data and this appraiser's public materials. Descriptive only — not a certification, ranking, or endorsement.
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