Send us a few photographs and one of our specialists will take a look, then tell you honestly, and free of charge, what it might fetch at auction.
Front, back, the scroll and any label. Straight from your phone is fine.
The same people who catalogue our auctions, with our 40,000-instrument archive to hand.
Honestly. And if you ever want to sell, we show you how, wherever in the world you are.
A name on a label helps, but it's the photographs that do the real work. Take your time. There's no charge, and nothing is shared.
Just the basics to begin with. If you are not sure of something, leave it the photographs will tell us most of what we need.
Copy it out as closely as you can, including the date spelling and all. Look through the left-hand f-hole with a torch. If there is no label, say so.
This is the part that matters. With three good photographs we can usually value an instrument accurately. Without them we cannot, and we will only have to write back and ask.
Family history is not sentiment it is evidence. Knowing that a violin came back from Germany in 1946, or was bought from a named shop in the 1960s, genuinely changes what we can say about it.
Anything at all: who owned it, roughly when, where it was bought, whether it has ever been repaired or valued before.
One of our valuers will look at this personally. We aim to come back to you within two working days.
So we can tell you if we are holding a valuation day near you.
Your reference is . One of our valuers will look at it personally and come back to you within two working days. If we need a better photograph we will say so it happens often and is nothing to worry about.
Everything you send is looked at by an Amati specialist. We'll tell you honestly what we think, including when something is worth less than you'd hoped, or a great deal more. No pressure to sell, then or ever.
Not an insurance figure or a shop's trade price, but what your instrument would realistically fetch under the hammer.
We value from photographs the world over, and for an instrument that shouldn't travel, we arrange to come to it.