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Gates Antiques Ltd
Gates Antiques Ltd is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Richmond, Virginia. Listed specialties: Antiques, Fine Art and Decorative Arts. Fee wording from their website is quoted below. 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.
Registry record source checked 2026-07-30. Ask which credentials apply and confirm them with the issuing organization.
- Office location
Richmond, Virginia
- Fees
Fee wording published on their website
$50 for a verbal appraisal per item. … If the appraisal is off site, the charge is $150.00 per hour with a minimum 1 hour charge – including:
Quoted from gatesantiques.com on 2026-10-11; not supplied to FAIR by the appraiser. Website prices change. Confirm current written, non-contingent terms directly before engagement.
- Website
- Registry status
Listed · Unclaimed
Listed since 2026-08-20; record edited 2026-08-20.
From their website
- Memberships
- New England Appraisers Association
- Appraises
- American and English furniture, 1650-1925
- Chinese and Japanese export
- Appraisal services
- antique appraisals
- How they work
- appraisals by internet or mail from pictures and dimensions
- Experience
- founded in 1961
Stated on gatesantiques.com/about-owner, gatesantiques.com, gatesantiques.com/appraisals; 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
- 2026-07-30
- Profile record edited
- 2026-08-20
- Listed since
- 2026-08-20
- Source freshness
- Source check within 180 days
- Source confidence
- Website-backed unclaimed profile
- Source wording
- Antiques, Fine Art, Decorative Arts
- Service categories
- Fine art, Antiques
- Linked source
- gatesantiques.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, Antiques.
- Listed specialty language: Antiques, Fine Art, Decorative Arts.
- Source confidence label: Website-backed unclaimed profile.
- Source checked date shown: 2026-07-30.
- 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
Gates Antiques Ltd is a website-backed, unclaimed FAIR profile for Richmond, VA, with Fine Art and Antiques and Personal Property listed in the registry, plus Fine art, Antiques, and Estate service categories and an estate/probate routing signal. The member site gives more specific context: Gates describes a family antique business founded in 1961, a 24,000-square-foot Midlothian retail and restoration workshop, and a focus on fine American and English furniture circa 1650-1925, period artwork, porcelains, Chinese and Japanese export, and American military artifacts. The appraisals page publishes a fee schedule for verbal, typed, off-site, internet, and mail appraisal requests, with photos and dimensions requested for remote submissions. Repair and conservation materials show work on antique furniture, boxes, beds, secretary desks, and gilt frames, which helps buyers separate furniture-condition questions from report-format questions. FAIR does not show public USPAP education detail or claimed profile control for this listing, and the FAIR fee field has not imported a fee statement even though Gates' own appraisals page publishes one. Use this as a Richmond/Midlothian antique furniture, decorative arts, and personal-property comparison lead, while confirming the current fee schedule, report purpose, item category, inspection method, and whether the written report format fits an estate, insurance, donation, or other formal use.
Member-owned evidence supports antique furniture and decorative-arts focus more strongly than broad fine-art coverage: American and English furniture circa 1650-1925, period artwork, porcelains, Chinese and Japanese export, American military artifacts, restoration/conservation examples, and antique-furniture education materials. FAIR's Estate signal should be confirmed against the specific report purpose before relying on it.
Before contacting Gates, sort the request into verbal in-shop opinion, typed report, off-site visit, internet/mail appraisal, repair or conservation question, or estate-related inventory need. Ask what photos, dimensions, maker marks, provenance, condition notes, and travel details they need, whether the fee is independent of value or sale outcome, and whether the written report format matches the intended use.
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