We offer probate valuations of house contents in all Cumbria areas including – Alston Ambleside Armathwiate Arnside Askam In Furness Askham Aspatria Ayside Bassenthwaite Beetham Bewcastle
ITG Provide probate valuations in accordance with HMRC guidelines.
Probate valuation reports will be prepared within 5 days of our valuer’s visit and will provide a clear indication of the market value of each item within the estate. The valuation report will include images with clear and accurate descriptions enabling quick identification of items of value.
Chattels Gallery Guide
The items pictured below are just a small sample of similar items recently valued by ITG probate valuations. The gallery will hopefully be helpful & educational in demonstrating the wide array of antiques, collectibles & everyday objects we value on a daily basis.
A German porcelain service, comprising a milk jug and matching saucer, salt and pepper shakers and a large salad bowl.
A 19th century German porcelain figure group, of a courting couple, stamped to the base with ‘Frankenthal’ factory mark, 23cm high.
A French porcelain lamp base, with the ovoid body with duck egg ground, and painted with sprays of flowers, 44cm high.
A pair of Ridgway porcelain ‘Daniel’ pattern plates, the central open floral spray against a floral ground, heightened in gilt, number to underside 4631.
A 19th century French porcelain apple-green ground cabinet plate, by Jean Pierre Feuillet, decorated to the centre and border cartouches with a spray of flowers.
A set of Berlin porcelain late 18th or early 19th century, comprising six cups, six tea bowls and a basin. Gilding rubbed, floral sprigs in good order, marked in blue beneath with sceptre of Elector of Brandenburg.
A pair of Chinese porcelain models of tigers, in Kangxi style, each seated on a rocky outcrop.
A 19th century French ormolu and porcelain mantel clock, the eight day movement striking on a bell, the porcelain dial with Roman numerals, within a Louis XVI style case with an urn surmount, the porcelain painted with basket of fruit, classical figures and panels of urns and flowers.
A French vineyard clock, the porcelain dial applied with enamel numeral reserves, the striking movement in a tortoiseshell veneered case set with a porcelain plaque of a putto, in a shaped ebonized frame, the whole with gilt brass mounts.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte baluster vases and covers, decorated with panels of landscapes, flowers, birds and fish with also a large panel depicting scholar’s objects, late 19th.
A Chinese porcelain baluster vase and cover table lamp, painted in the famille rose palate with exotic birds, flowers and bats, with a gilt brass fitting.
A pair of Chinese biscuit porcelain Buddhist lion dogs, in Kangxi style, the female with her puppy, the male with a pierced ball, late 19th century.
A 9ct gold signet ring, two further signet rings, one set with bloodstone, a further yellow metal decorative ring, and a white metal ring.
A 14ct yellow gold Art Deco style sapphire and diamond ring with central collet set oval sapphire flanked by three small sapphires on either side and a circle of six diamond chips.
An 18ct yellow gold ruby and diamond ring, with three oval rubies alternating with two small diamonds, all set in a pierced gallery.
An Edwardian 15ct gold bar brooch with filigree frame and centred with seven diamonds in a floral spray.
A yellow metal and diamond Royal Artillery brooch with enamel decoration and with spinning cannon wheel.
A Victorian yellow metal oval mourning brooch, the leaf border surrounding a cluster of garnets with picture/hair aperture to reverse.
A Victoria crown, 1889, mounted in white metal as a brooch with a safety chain, a three stone brooch set in yellow metal, and a circular yellow metal mourning pendant with inscription to hinged side.
Four Victorian mourning brooches including three in scrolling frames with central panel of plaited hair within a black enamelled border, and a similar example with hardstone central oval plaque.