[MassHistPres] Appraisal & more efficient messages

[John Worden]

I formerly served on the board of a museum.  As I recall there were "museum 
standards" put out by some national organization, among which were that 
appraisals of donated items are the responsibility of the donor.  Sometimes 
pre-printed form receipts contain language to this effect.

Anent responding to questions on the list:  in addition to the opening 
injunction of specifying the item in question in the subject line (which 
seems to be widely ignored), may I suggest that in responding, you take 
another few seconds to delete from your response all of the items except 
that to which you make reference.  This can be easily done (at least on  my 
system) by holding down the "shift" key & then just scrolling down to the 
bottom.  All that type will now be "black" & can be removed by pressing the 
delete key.

In this way, we won't still be reading about that failing second floor a 
week later.

John Worden
Arlington HDC


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> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:11:51 EDT
> From: SMARGAN at aol.com
> Subject: [MassHistPres] Who pays for appraisals of historic objects?
> To: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
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> The local historic society (nonprofit) is accepting a donation of a
> monument from a private party and the donor wants an appraisal for a tax 
>  > write-off. The society has a certified appraiser lined up but is 
> wondering  who
> should pay for the appraisal - the donor or donee? Does this matter  with
> respect to any conflict of interest or issues with the IRS?
> Thanks for any information on this.
>    Sandy
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