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The Antiquarium
The Antiquarium is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Houston, Texas. Listed specialties: Fine art appraisals.
Appraiser facts
- Specialties
- Credentials, memberships and roles
None listed in the registry record.
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- Office location
Houston, Texas
- Fees
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- Website
- Registry status
Listed · Unclaimed
Listed since 2026-08-20; record edited 2026-08-20.
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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
- Fine art appraisals
- Service categories
- Fine art, Antiques
- Linked source
- theantiquarium.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: Houston, TX.
- Listed service categories: Fine art, Antiques.
- Listed specialty language: Fine art appraisals.
- 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.
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Local read
The Antiquarium is an unclaimed, website-backed FAIR profile in Houston with listed specialties in Fine Art and Antiques and Personal Property, service categories for fine art, antiques, and estate, and an estate/probate routing signal. Its own site describes a River Oaks Shopping Center business founded in 1990 that sells original rare maps, antique prints, engravings, documents, photographs, atlases, globes, scientific instruments, and related works on paper, with a Houston address at 1976 West Gray Street. The sale and appraisal inquiries page says the shop is primarily interested in works over 100 years old and deals almost exclusively in engravings, old maps, documents, antique globes, scientific instruments, and atlases from roughly 1500 to 1900, with limited twentieth-century interest in Houston and Texas history, oil and gas material, select WWI or WWII items excluding firearms, and original photographs. That page also says The Antiquarium is not licensed to perform official appraisals, but can offer an opinion of value for familiar works; treat this as a Houston lead for antique maps, prints, works on paper, documents, globes, and related estate material, not as a general furniture, jewelry, oil or watercolor painting, sculpture, pottery, or memorabilia fit.
The strongest source-backed categories are antique maps, prints, engravings, documents, photographs, atlases, globes, scientific instruments, works on paper, and archival framing. The Antiquarium's sale-inquiry guidance specifically excludes old frames, oil or watercolor paintings, furniture, jewelry, sculpture, pottery, sports memorabilia, musical instruments, records, toys, radios, televisions, appliances, reference books, comic books, and newspapers from purchase interest; it also distinguishes opinions of value from official appraisals.
Before contacting The Antiquarium, identify whether the item is an original work on paper, map, atlas, document, photograph, globe, or scientific instrument; note approximate date, maker or publisher, subject, dimensions, condition, inscriptions, provenance, and framing. Send clear photos for initial screening, but confirm whether the need is sale guidance, estate triage, framing, an informal opinion of value, or a formal report from another appraiser.
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