about us

Experience, qualifications, knowledge, ethics - the foundation of a quality valuation service

Company Profile

Michael Inkpen FGA Ltd is an Independent Professional Jewellery Valuation Service providing a service for private clients, insurance companies and quality jewellers throughout the South West of England. 

We specialise in home visits providing a discrete, efficient and timely service in the privacy of your own home.  Situated in Exeter, Devon, our Home Visit Service is available across the whole South West region including Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire as well as Hampshire, Berkshire and anywhere in the UK by arrangement.  We provide service to clients in and around the cities of Exeter, Plymouth and Truro, the Torbay area and also across the South Hams region of South Devon. Our valuation services, including "jewellery valuation days" are also available through leading jewellers in this area

 

Personal Profile

Michael has over forty years trade experience and began as a sixteen-year-old trainee diamond mounter at the Central School of Art, Holborn, London.  He worked in West End jewellery workshops as a jewellery designer and diamond mounter for seventeen years.  He is a Fellow of the Gemmological Association, the learned body that is responsible for founding the very science of gemmology.  Gem-A, as it is now known, runs the world famous gemmology study course. This two year course must be taken in two parts - preliminary followed by diploma.  Successfully passing both examinations results in the qualification of Fellow of the Gemmological Association which Michael holds.  During the 1990's he owned and ran his own jewellery shop but now works as an independent jewellery valuer and gemmologist. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Registered Valuers and this means that he has satisfied the valuation committee of the Institute that he is a fit and proper person with the right degree of trade experience and qualification to carry out valuations to the exacting standards they lay down. Regular checks are made by this governing body to ensure these standards are being upheld.   He regularly attends the Institute of Registered Valuers conferences  and meetings of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain.   Michael is a member of the Society of Jewellery Historians and a founder member of the Association of Independent Jewellery Valuers.

 

Qualifications and Affiliations

 

 

Fellow of the Institute of Registered Valuers

 

 

 

 

Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain

 

 

 

 

 

Member of the Association of Independent Jewellery Valuers

 

 

 

 

Member of the Society of Jewellery Historians