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Vintage Items & Clothes
Vintage Items & Clothes is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Des Moines, Iowa. Listed specialties: Antiques and Personal Property and Estate Appraisals.
Appraiser facts
- Credentials, memberships and roles
None listed in the registry record.
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- Office location
Des Moines, Iowa
- 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: 14 FAIR-listed personal property appraisers post an hourly rate on their own websites. The median is $163 an hour, and the middle half charge $150–$199 (checked October 2026).
- Website
- Registry status
Listed · Unclaimed
Listed since 2026-05-17; record edited 2026-08-25.
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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, Estate Appraisals
- Service categories
- Antiques, Estate
- Linked source
- aokayantiques.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: Des Moines, IA.
- Listed service categories: Antiques, Estate.
- Listed specialty language: Antiques and Personal Property, Estate Appraisals.
- Source confidence label: Website-backed unclaimed profile.
- The profile remains unclaimed and has a correction or removal path.
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- Can you prepare a report for my intended use and the recipient’s requirements?
- Will inspection be remote or in person, and do you cover my location?
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Local read
Vintage Items & Clothes maps to a much more specific public source: the A Okay Antiques site in West Des Moines. FAIR lists the profile for Des Moines with antiques, personal property, Estate Appraisals specialty language, estate/probate routing, website-backed unclaimed status, and no public FAIR fee or USPAP education detail. The linked site describes antique retail, mid-century furniture, vintage clothing, estate/tag sale operations, house calls, estate-sale setup, merchandising, display, cleanout, and buyout support. Treat it as an antiques and estate-contents lead, but verify directly whether the offered service is a formal written appraisal, an estate/tag sale, a purchase or buyout, or retail guidance before relying on it for estate, insurance, donation, tax, or probate documentation.
The public site names inventory and estate-sale categories such as vintage advertising signs, jukeboxes, gas pumps, coin-op machines, neon signs, slot machines, turn-of-the-century furniture and lighting, pottery, art glass, costume and Mexican silver jewelry, mid-century furniture, art, sculptures, vintage clothing, sterling silver, gold jewelry, toys, and household collections.
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