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West End Architectural Salvage
West End Architectural Salvage is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Des Moines, Iowa. Listed specialties: Antiques and Personal Property.
Appraiser facts
- Specialties
- Credentials, memberships and roles
None listed in the registry record.
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- Office location
Des Moines, Iowa
- Fees
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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).
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- Registry status
Listed · Unclaimed
Listed since 2026-05-17; record edited 2026-08-25.
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Source record and dates
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- 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
- westendsalvage.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.
- Source confidence label: Website-backed unclaimed profile.
- The profile remains unclaimed and has a correction or removal path.
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Local read
West End Architectural Salvage is the architectural-salvage and antique-retail entry in this Des Moines review batch. FAIR lists antiques and personal property, Antiques and Estate categories, estate/probate routing, website-backed unclaimed status, and no public FAIR fee or USPAP education detail. Its site describes a downtown Des Moines store with multiple floors of antiques, vintage items, architectural salvage, furniture, art, custom decor and furniture, stained glass, lighting, and restoration materials. The public pages are strongest as category evidence for salvage and antique retail context; they do not show a formal appraisal-report page, so confirm whether the service needed is a written appraisal, retail guidance, custom project work, or salvage sourcing.
The site is most specific about architectural salvage and related material categories: antique doors, windows, columns, corbels, hardware, hinges, doorknobs, light fixtures, baseboard, ceiling tin, stained glass, trim, lumber, floor grates, wall registers, newel posts, balusters, wrought iron, antique and vintage furniture, decor, art, and custom pieces.
For a formal-use appraisal, ask whether a written report is available for the intended use, who would inspect architectural salvage versus general antiques, and whether any advice is separate from buying, selling, salvage sourcing, or custom-build services.
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