Personal Property Appraiser Qualifications

 

Aloysia C. Hamalainen ISA CAPP

MAGMaryland@Outlook.com

 

301-879-3204 (office), 240-277-7250 (Cell)

President and Principal Appraiser
Montgomery Appraisal Group

 

Certified personal property appraiser specializing in fine and decorative arts, providing appraisal services for estate settlement, insurance coverage, and charitable donation.

 

Qualified Appraiser under IRS regulations with experience appraising works donated to major museums and institutions.

 

Professional involvement with appraisal practice began in 1985 through Montgomery Appraisal Group, assisting with valuation research and documentation prior to formal certification and independent appraisal practice.

Professional Credentials

• Qualified Appraiser, Internal Revenue Service
• Certified Appraiser of Personal Property (CAPP), International Society of Appraisers
• Qualified Appraiser, Appraisal Standards Board
• Appointed to the Task Force of The Appraisal Foundation for the revision of Personal Property Appraisal Standards 7 and 8 (USPAP)
• Accepted as expert witness, Montgomery County Circuit Court, Maryland
• Acceptance to ISA Private Client Services Program

Selected Institutional Appraisal Experience

Appraised significant works for donation to major institutions including:

• The National Gallery of Art
• The Baltimore Museum of Art
• The Kemper Museum
• American University
• The Phillips Collection
• UMD
• The de Looper Foundation
• The Paul Reed Foundation
• Other public and private fine art galleries

Professional Experience

 

Montgomery Appraisal Group

Personal Property Appraiser – Fine and Decorative Arts

 

2005 – Present
President and Certified Appraiser of appreciable and depreciable personal property, specializing in fine art, decorative arts, antiques, and collectibles for estate settlement, insurance coverage, and charitable donation purposes.

 

1985 – 2004
Assisted with appraisal-related research and documentation for residential and contents appraisals conducted in conjunction with real estate valuation assignments.

Areas of Expertise

• Eighteenth Century European and American paintings and decorative arts
• Nineteenth Century European and American paintings and decorative arts
• Twentieth Century to Present European and American paintings and decorative arts
• Sterling Silver and Silver Plate
• Flatware, Hollowware, and Decorative Items
• American and European Art Pottery, Porcelain, and Glass
• Rare Books and Ephemera
• Eighteenth Century European and American furniture
• Nineteenth Century European and American furniture
• Twentieth Century European and American furniture
• Persian and Oriental Rugs
• International Art and Antiquities Crime

Education

1975
BA: Art History and Anthropology
George Washington University

1976
Graduate Study, Conservation Lab (Dr. C. Rose)
Smithsonian Institution

1985 – 1990
Independent Fee Appraisers – Principles of Valuation appraisal courses

2001 – 2004
Core Appraisal Courses
American Society of Appraisers Program

2004
Certificate in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts / Connoisseurship
George Washington University Center for Professional Development

2005
Principles in Valuation
American Society of Equine Appraisers

2009
Certified Appraiser of Personal Property (CAPP) credential

2015
Certificate in World Art History
Smithsonian Institution

2016
Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime
University of Glasgow

2018
Certificate – Appraisal of Fine Wine
New York University

2020
Certificate – Post War Abstract Expressionist Artists
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2023
Specialization Certificate
Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Early Museum and Arts Writing Experience

• Intern, Division of Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution
• Covered Smithsonian exhibition openings and museum programming for St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington, DC
• Columnist, Bay Weekly
• Contributor to a professional appraiser newsletter

Continuing Professional Education

Continuing education completed annually in accordance with USPAP requirements and professional appraisal standards. Courses, conferences, seminars, and webinars are listed in detail to document ongoing competency across property types appraised.

2026

• 3/6/26: ASA Webinar PP167, “AI for Appraisers – Tools, Ethics, USPAP Compliance and Workflow Best Practices”

2025

• 4/2–5, ISA Conference: American Studio Ceramics, Provenance, Contemporary Glass Sculpture, The Rise of the Collectibles Market, Appraising Compromised Artwork, Books and Manuscripts

2024

• Seminar: Valuation and Marketplaces of Collectible Wine
• Consortium: ISA FAE – Gems and Jewelry Appraising

2023

• 1/20/23: Specialization from MOMA, “Modern and Contemporary Art and Design”
• 2/17–21: ISA National Conference. Courses included Jewelry Design, Recovery of Nazi Stolen Fine Art, American and European Antiques, Contemporary Art Glass Markets, IRS Reports

2022

• 12/1: Museum of Modern Art: “Fashion as Design”
• 10/21: Museum of Modern Art: Photography, six-week online course
• 10/17: Museum of Modern Art, NYC: six-week online certificate course, “What is Contemporary Art”
• 9/7: Certificate, “Reading Silver,” The Manuscript Society
• 7/18–8/22: Museum of Modern Art, NYC: Certificate six-week course on Modern Art and Ideas
• Conference topics 3/25–3/27:
  • The market in North American Native Arts
  • Judicial proceedings overview
  • African American Art market
  • Due diligence procedures and provenance
  • Appraising FMV and the IRS
• NYU online course, Certificate: six weeks, 20th Century American Art: From Rauschenberg to Asawa
• PART weekly Zoom meetings

2021

• Conference topics 3/19–3/20/21:
  • Pop Culture evaluations
  • Sculptures
  • Difference in lifetime and posthumous casts
  • The emerging market in African Art
  • Vintage Rolex valuation
  • Washington Color School
  • Update in Furniture valuations
  • Update in Jewelry appraising
  • Mid Century Modern Furniture valuation
  • New Technologies in appraising
• Webinar: Appraising couture, designer & vintage clothing, Julia Bloodgood, AAA
• Webinar: Appraising couture, designer & vintage clothing, Julia Bloodgood, AAA
• Zoom meetings: Founding member of Professional Appraisers Round Table (PART) with weekly 2-hour meetings on appraiser and appraisal practices and knowledge
• Webinar: Appraising Couture, Designer & Vintage Clothing, AAA
• Webinar: Art Advising and Appraiser: Fulfilling both roles, AAA
• Webinar: Appraising Watches in 2021, AAA
• Webinar: Looking at NFTs, Beyond the hype, AAA
• Webinar: Norman Rockwell: The rising tide, AAA
• Webinar: What’s it worth? How professional appraisers determine values..., Brian Kathenes, ISA CAPP NAC
• NCACISA meetings:
  • 1/18: Ryan Berley: An examination of WWI Trench Art (Zoom)
  • 2/15: Ryan Berley: History of candy making with candy molds
  • 4/26: Robert Wittman: FBI Stolen Art Unit
  • 9/13/21: Brian Kathenes, ISA CAPP, “Appraising Autographs”
  • 10/4/21: Tara Chicirda, Curator of Furniture at Colonial Williamsburg, “Antiques, Copies and Fakes: When Old Chairs Multiply”
  • 11/1/21: FBI Art Crime Team with Special Agent Jake Archer

2020

• 1/6/2020 – 3/6/2020: MOMA online, Post War Abstract Expressionist Artists
• 3/20: ISA Online Conference (8 hours)
• NYU online course: Appraising Wine – Old World versus New World
• Online ISA: Diminution of Value Webinar Series
• Webinar: Appraising Antiquities, Sue McGovern-Huffman
• Webinar: Appraising Autographs, manuscripts, historical documents, Kathenes ISA CAPP
• Webinar: Appraising Stamps and Coins, Brian Kathenes ISA CAPP
• Webinar: Book Appraisal Methodology, Mary Kohnke, ISA
• Webinar: Jewelry From Designers to Diamonds, Amy Lawch ISA AM GG
• Webinar: Historic Frames, Bill Adair, Gold Leaf Studios
• Webinar: Later Japanese Ceramics, presented by Daphne L. Rosenzweig, PhD, ISA CAPP
• Webinar: USPAP and Fine Art Appraisals, Steve Roach, ISA CAPP
• Webinar: 19th Century Drawing and Prints, Polly Sartori AAA 19C Gallery
• Webinar: Chinese Export Silver, ISA
• Webinar: Books for the Generalist, ISA
• 3/9 Virtual Meeting Steve Roach Art Market
• 3/29: Martin Rapaport Webinar: The Rapaport Price List (How to calculate diamonds)
• 4/2: Navigating Personal Property Valuation COVID-19 Concerns, AAA, ISA, TAF
• 11/6: Zoom with Isabelle de la Houssaye: African Currency Forms
• 12/21: Gary Cameron Lionel Toy Trains

2019

• Annual Conference, 14 hours CEU
• Webinar: Book appraisal, 1 hour CEU
• Webinar: Fundamentals of Watch Appraising, Joe Cohen
• Webinar: Appraising Rugs, Ellen Amirkhan ISA CAPP
• Webinar: “Identifying Heroes in Asian Art,” Dr. Daphne Rosenzweig PhD, ISA CAPP
• Webinar: Artsy Webinar, The Online Art Collector Report 2019
• 1/7/19: Todd Sigety ISA CAPP: Antique Furniture market
• 2/4/19: Matt Wilcox: Art Frauds and Forgeries
• 5/6: Melanie Marts, GIA, ivory in the market
• 10/10: Two tours, Anderson House and Gold Leaf Studio
• 11/4: Alex Volkonsky, art restorer

2018

• USPAP 7-hour update: ACA by Bill Novotny, 7 hours CEU
• AAA course on Fine Wine Appraisal, 10 hours, Gayle Skuczlik CEU
• ISA: High Net Worth Individuals, 10.75 credits CEU
• Advanced Appraisal Methodology, 9/6/18, 10 credits CEU
• FAE 2-Day Evaluation Seminar, 9/7–8, 17 hours CEU
• Webinar: Appraising Chinese Jade Carvings, Daphne Rosenzweig PhD, ISA CAPP
• Webinar: Buddhism and its Symbolism in Asian Art, Daphne Rosenzweig PhD, ISA CAPP
• 2/5: Oscar Fitzgerald, Antique Furniture
• 4/9/18: Aneta G-Shine: Modern Art Market
• 5/8/18: Dr. Joseph Jabbour: Watches in the marketplace
• 10/1/18: Dale Sorenson PhD, ISA AM: Guidelines to appraising books of all kinds
• 11/4/18: Molly Huang, ISA: The Importance of Provenance in appraising Chinese Art

2017

• ISA Conference: 14 hours CEU
• Appraising Picasso Webinar: 1 CEU
• Maryland Historical Society: 6-hour course on Federal furniture, 6 CEU
• Japanese Prints, Dr. Daphne Rosenzweig ISA CAPP PhD: 15 hours CEU
• Webinar: Leveraging Art Market Trends, Cindy Rosenberg ISA CAPP
• Webinar: Appraising Pablo Picasso Part I and II
• 1/6: Amanda Malkin: Paper conservation
• 2/6: Laura Kleim: Federal Furniture
• 3/6: Matt Quinn: “The Art of Merton Simpson”
• 4/4: Ben Farina, Asian art at auction
• 5/1: Steve Roach ISA CAPP, Coins value
• 9/11, 11/6, 1/5: Aneta Shine: 3-part series on fine art valuation
• 10/2: Irwin Gross GG, Jewelry Appraising
• 12/11: Frank Millwee, Heraldic Silver valuation

2016

• ISA Conference, three days, 18 CEUs
• Online Course: Art Crime, University of Glasgow, 12 hours (CEU), Certificate of completion
• USPAP update: 7 hours (CEU)
• AAA Jewelry for Generalist in NYC, 7 hours (certificate of completion) (CEU)
• Three-Day Symposium on Art and Architecture in the Time of George Washington, Mount Vernon, 5/27–5/29, 15 hours CEU
• Two-Day FAE Conference on Fakes and Frauds, 9/23–9/25/16, 17 hours CEU
• 1/4: Jennifer L. Mass, PhD, Scientific Analysis of Fine Art
• 2/1: Daniel A. Piazza, Assistant Curator of Philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
• 3/7: David Weiss, Freeman’s Auction
• 4/4: Millwee Sterling Silver
• 5/2: Adam Erby: Mount Vernon news
• 9/12: Nicholas Nicolson: Values in Russian Art
• 10/3: Dr. Wilfied Zeisler, Fabergé Eggs
• 11/7: Claudia Pfiefer, Sporting Museum

2015

• Smithsonian Institution: Certificate in World Art History, 80 hours CEU
• ISA Conference: 14 hours CEU
• 1/5: Cleveland: Paper Conservation
• 2/2: A. G. Shine PhD: Women Artists, 20th Century
• 3/9: Elizabeth Berman ISA AM: Judaica
• 4/6: Catherine Hollan GG: Silver makers and marks
• 5/5: Brett Stouffer: Guns in Estates
• 8/31: Tim Andreadis (Freeman’s): George Nakashima
• 10/3: Katherine Fernstron PhD: Pueblo Potters
• 11/2: Nelson GG: Heirloom Jewelry

2014

• ISA Conference, three days, 16 CEU
• 1/6: Matt Wilcox: Illustration Art
• 2/3: Fitzgerald PhD: Mid-Century Modern Furniture
• 4/7: Geiger Esq.: Estate Law
• 5/5: Leila Dunbar ISA AM: Wine Appraising
• 10/6: Schuttinger/Merritt ISA AM: 18th Century Furniture
• 10/20: Castner PhD, ISA CAPP: Broad Evidence Report
• 11/3: Bobby Mann GG: Ivory update

2013

• FAE Two-Day Valuation Seminar, 16 CEU
• ISA Conference, four days, 18 CEU
• 1/7: Zipp: Stoneware Pottery
• 2/4: Lea Dunbar AAA, ISA AM: Sports values
• 3/4: Bruce Schuttenger ISA AM: Furniture conservation
• 3/12: Persian Rug Seminar
• 4/1: Matt Quinn: Auction market
• 10/7: Nelson: Jewelry market
• 11/4: Ken Farmer: Market trends

2012

• ISA Conference, four days, 18 CEU
• 1/9: A. Shine PhD: DC Printmakers
• 2/6: Frank Ceruci: Sports cards valuation
• 3/5: Zimmerman: Antique watches
• 4/2: Charles Goldstein ISA CAPP: Art fraud
• 5/7: Panel: Appraisal examples
• 6/4: Millwee: Antique heraldry and silver
• 10/5: Aneta Shine PhD: Modern Art survey
• 11/5: Bonita Billman PhD: Chinese Art survey

2011

• ISA Conference, four days, 18 CEU
• 1/3: Donovan: State of the auction market
• 2/7: Watercolor market
• 3/7: Hastings ISA AM: Russian porcelain
• 4/4: Dunn Esq.: Huntington Block
• 5/2: Nelson GG: Jewelry appraisal tips
• 6/13: Lerner: Coins
• 4/12: NHA Field trip
• 9/12: Proulx ISA AM: Painting research
• 10/3: Fitzgerald PhD: Furniture
• 11/8: Art conservation

2010

• ISA Conference, four days, 18 CEU
• 1/4: Dale Sorenson: Prints
• 2/3: ISA Update: Winer
• 3/1: Schuttinger ISA AM: Furniture conservation
• 4/5: Fenton Glass
• 6/7: Grais PhD: Chinese Art
• 9/13: Verner Hindrich: Icons
• 10/9: Sigety ISA CAPP: Internet savvy
• 11/1: EEOB Field Trip: Antique interiors and restoration

Additional continuing education prior to 2010 available upon request.

 

Honors and Awards

2008-2009

ISA Service Award

 

2009-2010

ISA Special Merit Award

 

2014-2015

ISA Leadership and Service Award

 

2024

Life Membership Award – International Society of Appraisers

 

Professional Affiliations

 

International Society of Appraisers - Certified Member

Served on the ISA Special Appraisal Selection Committee (2009-2024)

Board Member of the International Society of Appraisers (2009-2014)

Board Member Foundation For Appraisal Education  (2009-2014)

Board Member - National Capital Area Chapter of the ISA (2005-2023)

• Assisted in developing and organizing monthly professional education programs for chapter members over two decades

 

National Association of Equine Appraisers, Senior appraiser (retired)

 

Languages

English (native)

French (bilingual oral and written fluency)

Classical Latin (Reading proficiency)

 

Location

8808 Mustang Island Circle, Naples, FL 34113

329 Charred Oak Court, Annapolis, MD 21409

 

MAGMaryland@Outlook.com

301-879-3204 (office), 240-277-7250 (Cell)

Website: www.montgomeryappraisalgroup.com