Connoisseurship Courses

Dive deep into specialized topics and build your skills

From Oriental rugs to modern prints, ISA's connoisseurship courses teach you how to appraise categories of items that you encounter as a personal property appraiser.

Courses instruct on terminology, components of identification, and value factors for appraising specific classes and categories of items
Provides comparables and common questions to ask clients
Incorporates lessons on authentication issues and common legal issues

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Find past Connoisseurship webinars in our Recorded Webinars library.

From the ISA Now Blog

Announcing the New Digital Journal of Advanced Appraisal Practice Friday, April 12, 2019
Announcing the release of the new Digital Journal of Advanced Appraisal Practice. With online delivery, the reach, readership, exposure, and influence of the journal should increase exponentially, especially among High-Net-Worth Individuals.
Advertising Treasures Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Though stone lithography was invented in 1798, it took until almost 100 years later, or the later part of the 19th century, for the process to be used for advertising posters. Learn more about the art of posters, reproductions, and get some tips for appraising them from Tim Luke, ISA AM.
Ask an Instructor: Credentialing Process FAQs Monday, March 11, 2019
ISA members are invited to send in their questions on all things appraising and education to ISA's instructors.
Train to Be a Core Course Instructor Friday, March 08, 2019
If you have a CAPP designation, you're invited to apply for an opportunity to assist with the upcoming Core Course in Appraisal Studies this fall in Naperville.

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