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Hands of America
Hands of America is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 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
Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Fees
Not supplied. Ask for written terms that do not depend on value, sale price or outcome.
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- Website
- Registry status
Listed · Unclaimed
Listed since 2026-05-17; record edited 2026-08-25.
From their website
- Appraisal services
- repair and restoration of furniture, artwork, paintings and carved wooden religious figures
- Experience
- restoring New Mexican and Mexican furniture since 1986
Stated on handsofamericainc.com; 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
- Antiques and Personal Property
- Service categories
- Antiques, Estate
- Linked source
- handsofamericainc.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: Santa Fe, NM.
- 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.
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Local read
FAIR lists Hands of America as an unclaimed Santa Fe, NM profile with Antiques and Personal Property specialty language, Antiques/Estate service categories, Estate and probate routing, website-backed source confidence, source checked 2026-05-16, and no FAIR verified status, public fee statement, public USPAP education detail, credential field, or claim/control status. The source site supports a Santa Fe business at 401 Rodeo Rd. under Hands of America / Manos de America, tied to Leonel Capparelli. Its public copy describes custom designs in new or recycled wood, repairs/restorations, Spanish Colonial antiques and New Mexico furniture, iron furniture and lighting, stone, wood, antique artwork, paintings, pottery, carved wooden religious figures, accessories, and museum-quality restoration. The about page says Capparelli's family restored antique furniture in Uruguay and that the Capparellis bought antiques in northern New Mexico and Mexico. It does not, in the fetched text, show appraisal-report services, appraiser credentials, fee terms, USPAP education, or formal estate/probate report language. Treat this profile as an antiques/restoration/dealer-adjacent lead to verify before using it for a formal appraisal: confirm whether Hands of America prepares written appraisal reports, who signs them, what categories are in scope, and whether the assignment is estate/probate, insurance, donation, resale, restoration planning, or personal inventory.
The clearest source-backed fit is Spanish Colonial/New Mexico furniture, antiques, restored or repurposed wood, iron/stone pieces, artwork, paintings, pottery, carved religious figures, and accessories. FAIR lists Estate and probate as a routing signal, but the fetched source site should be checked directly for formal report work.
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