The Trusted Resource List The Best Rug & Carpet Appraisers

This list is under construction and i am counting on all of you to help me identify the many excellent Appraisers who are not on the list yet.

David E. Adler, AM

Accredited Member ASA
6990 E Main Street Scottsdale, AZ 85251-4312
Phone: (602) 941-2995

Barry B.Amiri, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser ASA
www.AntiqueRugCo.com and The Rug Affair
928 N. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA
Tel:(310) 659-3847
Fax:(310) 659-2288

Email: info@bamiri.com

Valentina Arbab, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser ASA
9705 Blackgold Rd La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: (619) 453-4686 Facsimile: (619) 457-3647

Roger G. Cavanna, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser ASA
Carpets of the Inner Circle
444 Jackson Street San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: (415) 398-2988 Facsimile: (415) 398-0771
Email address: rumi@c-innercircle.com 

Edgar Hagopian

Hagopian World of Rugs
850 S. Old Woodward, Birmingham, MI 48009
248-646-7847 phone
248-646-1850 Fax
hagopian@aol.com email

Sharon W. Kerwick, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser ASA
1633 NE 24th St Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305-1402
Phone: (954) 565-9031 Facsimile: (954) 564-0648
Email address: sharonkerwick@compuserve.com  
Web address: www.appraisers.org/pages/843.htm

James M. Keshishian, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser ASA
4505 Stanford Street Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Phone: (301) 654-4044 Facsimile: (301) 907-8236

Allen R. Kosub, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser ASA
Blanco Rd #307 San Antonio, TX 78216-2187
Phone: (210) 493-6504 Facsimile: (210) 493-5953
http://www.rugappraiser.com
 

Timothy A. McMaster, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser
11686 Flatiron Drive Lafayette, CO 80026
Phone: (303) 442-2096

Brian Morehouse

Tel: 323-939-2240
Fax: 213-931-4987
Morehousebri@aol.com
Over 30 years experience in dealing in Oriental Carpets. Brian is an Appraiser (member AAA American Association of Appraisers)

Guido T. Muzzarelli, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser ASA
4244 Laurel Grove Avenue Studio City, CA 91604-1623
Phone: (818) 766-0605 Facsimile: (818) 766-3025
Email address: lamiacanina@earthlink.net

Keith Rocklin Oriental Rugs

Keith Rocklin
Los Angeles, CA
Tele. 310 203 8420.
krocklin@aol.com
By appointment only. Specialist in collectible tribal rugs, bags and textiles, including Pre-Columbian.
Also rare and better books relating to these. General consultant in finer antique rugs and textiles primarily from the Middle East, but also including Pre-Columbian and European."

(Keith is another guy who I count on for good advice. Keith is someone I trust. JBOC)

Mohammad H. Shakoori, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser ASA
5501 Shepard Ave Sacramento, CA 95819
Phone: (916) 456-1433

John & Suzan Wertime

PO Box 16296 Alexandria, VA 22302
Tel: (703) 379-8528 - Fax: (703) 379-8577
e-mail: john.wertime@verizon.net  
Oriental Rugs and Textile Art.
(I cannot recomend the Wertimes highly enough. Nice people and extremely knowledge. I consider John one of the top experts in the world on Persian and Caucasian tribal rugs and textiles. John performs appraisals for such august bodies as the TexteileMuseum in Washington DC. and the DeYoung Musum in San Freansisco. Notes on John Wertime JBOC)

Frances Zeman, ASA

Accredited Senior Appraiser ASA
Appraisal Resource Associates Inc
133 Pacific St Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (718) 852-4961 Facsimile: (718) 643-6486
Email address: franzasa@aol.com