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 ISA's 2019-2020 Board of Directors Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Voting for ISA's 2019-2020 Board of Directors has ended and we would like to congratulate our recently elected members, Dina Brown, ISA CAPP, Michelle Conliffe, ISA CAPP, and Libby Holloway, ISA CAPP.
Ask an Instructor: Comparables for Insurance Appraisals Tuesday, July 30, 2019
ISA members are invited to send in their questions on all things appraising and education to ISA's instructors.
Considering Risk in Selecting Comparables Monday, July 29, 2019
As true rarities become harder to find, collectors seem to have an increased tolerance for risk in their purchases. The boldest example of this in recent memory is Christie's 2017 auction of Salvador Mundi, sold by the auction house as a Leonardo da Vinci, for a record-setting $450,312,500.
Pivotal Court Ruling Affirms Primacy of Personal Property Appraisal Profession -- TAF Release Friday, July 26, 2019
A recent ruling by the 9th Circuit Court affirmed a U.S. Tax Court opinion that found an appraisal from an esteemed auction house is not adequate assurance of appraisal expertise or competency. On Friday, July 26, The Appraisal Foundation (TAF) released a press release on the ruling.

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