Company Profile

An independent Professional Jewellery Valuation service. For private clients, insurance companies and the jewellery trade. We specialise in home visits providing a discrete, efficient and quick service in the privacy of your own home.
Michael Inkpen is a Member of National Association of Goldsmiths Institute of Registered Valuers.
IRV number: 50495

Situated in Torquay we serve the whole of the South West region including Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire as well as Hampshire, Berkshire and anywhere in the UK by arrangement. We value for clients in and around the cities of Exeter, Plymouth and Truro, the Torbay area and also across the South Hams region of South Devon.
Here we tell you a little about jewellery valuation, why its a good thing, why you need it and how to get your jewellery valuables correctly appraised with the minimum of fuss.

Please note that we do not do "sight unseen" valuations. To value an item we have to use all the senses (although perhaps not taste!) so we have to see the item before putting a value to it.

Our name appears on the registered valuers list which can be found by navigating to the NAG website at www.jewellers-online.org

Michael Inkpen is also an Certified Appraiser, Association of Jewellery Appraisers

Michael Inkpen is a member of the Society of Jewellery Historians.

Michael is a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain.

Personal

Michael  has been in the jewellery trade for over forty years 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.
 GemA, as it is now known runs the 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.  He is also a founder member of the Guild of Independent Valuers and Jewellers.
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 National Association of Goldsmiths registered valuer and this means that he has satisfied the valuation committee of the N.A.G. 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. 
He regularly attends the NAG registered valuers conference at Loughborough University and meetings of the Gemmological Association.  (South Western branch) at Bath.  Michael is a member of the Society of Jewellery Historians.