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Ms. Barbara Blades-Lines, ASA, ARM
Ms. Barbara Blades-Lines, ASA, ARM is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Houston, Texas. The record comes from the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) member directory and lists ASA. Listed specialties: Personal Property, Antiques and Decorative Art and Appraisal Review & Management. Services, credentials and other facts stated on their own website are listed below.
Appraiser facts
- Credentials, memberships and roles
- ASA: listed as ASA in the American Society of Appraisers directory (record imported February 20, 2026)
- ASA
Source: ASA member directory record. Source-check date not published. Confirm current standing with the issuing organization.
- Office location
Houston, Texas
- 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 2026-02-20; record edited 2026-08-25.
From their website
- Memberships
- International Society of Appraisers
- Appraisers Association of America
- Appraises
- silver
- maps
- ceramics
- Appraisal services
- estate and probate appraisals
- donation appraisals
- insurance damage claim appraisals
- litigation and expert testimony
- divorce settlement and equitable distribution appraisals
- Areas served
- national and global
- Experience
- over 30 years appraising
Stated on bladesappraisals.com/about-us, bladesappraisals.com/qualifications, bladesappraisals.com/services, bladesappraisals.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
- 2026-02-20
- Source freshness
- Source-check date unavailable
- Source confidence
- Website-backed unclaimed profile
- Source wording
- Personal Property, Antiques and Decorative Art, Appraisal Review & Management, PP - Antiques and Decorative Art, ASA
- Service categories
- Antiques, Estate
- Linked source
- bladesappraisals.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
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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Barbara Blades-Lines, ASA, ARM is an unclaimed FAIR profile listed in Houston with Blades Appraisals and Art Resources, website-backed source evidence, and Personal Property / Antiques and Decorative Art / Appraisal Review & Management specialty language. The ASA member-details page describes a personal-property practice covering fine and decorative art, antiques, collectibles, and residential contents for insurance, damage claims, estate, probate, donation, equitable distribution, divorce settlement, litigation, and de-accession or resale. Her Blades Appraisals site adds antiques, fine art, firearms, collectibles, residential contents, coins, sports memorabilia, estate appraisals, and corporate asset appraisal services. Treat this as an art, antiques, decorative-art, residential-contents, appraisal-review, estate/probate, donation, insurance, and litigation-support profile, not as a machinery/equipment or general business-valuation lead.
Blades Appraisals' qualifications page says Blades-Lines has more than 30 years of experience appraising Colonial to Contemporary furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, maps, and paintings; founded Blades Appraisal Services in Houston in 1994; worked in Bermuda until 2012; and has handled collection work for museums, universities, banks, law firms, public institutions, nonprofits, private collections, and corporate or business contexts. Houston ASA lists her with Decorative Art & Antiques and Fine Art specialties. The ISA profile adds appraisal review, donations, estate probate, expert witness, insurance claims, and non-cash charitable donations. Confirm current scope and report purpose.
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