Jonathon Weber Email & Phone Number

Looking to maximize financial impact of physical assets: reducing costs of maintenance, increasing volume of activity, raising the potential liquidation price, or a combination thereof? How prudent is your strategy to execute this?At home, work, display, or storage; what emergency or contingency plan; climate-control; what security; racking, and/or shelving with pallets; properly crated or soft-packed; space to accommodate larger sculptures or limited to miniatures; space is "paper friendly" or safe for only bronze; piece-wise accessible; what insurance rate?More or less risk; acquiring pieces through dealers, buyers, auctions, pickers, or trade; how to authenticate the label; work with conservators to repair inadequate pieces; explore untraditional, underrepresented works or stick with market favorites; selling anything incrementally or liquidated in its entirety; who do you trust for this; will they need mounts or cases?How closely are you monitoring market trends; what about popular culture; are any pieces booty or Cancelled; what is your name as a collector; has anything ever been on loan, in an exhibition, or published in a reputable and scholarly book or article; who will be handling customs when oversees; how will these pieces compete against other things that might be produced in the future; how will it relate to non-circumventable policies?Material culture, generally if ever an investment is one of passion – not that it is impossible to turn a profit, but the there are far easier and more likely options through other capital ventures. So then, the question is one of how to restrain our passions, to give more satisfaction and potential to achieving our ambitions, or to make the most of something that was left to us. It should be known that the best collections are ones that are shared and through my education and experiences across the for-profit arts I am eager to help it start to finish.While somewhat new to the International Society of Appraisers, I am not new to the industry or its peripheries where I have worked in varying capacities for over a decade and am honored to be able to bring these experiences to this established family of appraisers. Weschler's provides written appraisals for estate tax and estate planning, insurance, charitable contributions and other purposes. As one of the nation's leading auctioneers and appraiser in the Washington Metropolitan Area, over the years Weschler's has been in the unique position to auction property from many prominent local estates of political figures and other distinguished entities.

Listed skills include Public Speaking, Art, Art History, Research, and 30 others.