Denver Personal Property Appraiser and Modern & Contemporary Fine Art Specialist
Anastasia Eikenberry is a personal property appraiser with Prestige Estate Services whose work combines formal appraisal methodology with extensive experience in the primary and secondary markets for twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. Based in the Denver area, she serves Colorado clients and travels throughout the United States for select assignments.
Prestige Estate Services appraises tangible personal property. We do not provide real estate appraisals.
Her professional path joins studio-art education, museum work, gallery-market experience, collector advisory services, and formal personal property appraisal training.
Anastasia earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art with a minor in Art History from Stetson University in 2005. That combined education supports visual analysis, material awareness, historical context, and careful observation of how an object was made.
While in Florida, she interned at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach and volunteered at the DeLand Museum of Art. Her responsibilities included cataloging artwork and assisting with traveling exhibitions.
During approximately fifteen years with a major Western U.S. art dealer and gallerist, Anastasia worked with twentieth- and twenty-first-century artworks and gained extensive exposure to pricing, object identification, market analysis, and collector decision-making.
Her experience with private collectors, interior designers, and brokers strengthened her understanding of how artwork moves through different markets. Appraisal practice requires an independent value conclusion for a stated use rather than sales advocacy, yet direct market exposure helps an appraiser recognize relevant venues, buyer behavior, condition expectations, and the distinctions between asking prices and completed transactions.
Since 2020, Anastasia has prepared appraisal reports involving general household contents and varied personal property in addition to her fine art specialty. This broader practice is especially useful when an estate or collection includes artwork alongside furniture, decorative objects, silver, antiques, collectibles, and other tangible assets.
Anastasia is based in the Denver area and is available for appraisal projects throughout Colorado. For larger estates, significant art collections, complex legal matters, or assignments requiring her particular competency, she may travel to the property rather than limiting her practice to a single metropolitan market.
Her completed travel assignments have included work in Chicago, Dallas, Portland, Aspen, Breckenridge, Salt Lake City, Naples, Oklahoma City, and Jackson Hole. These locations demonstrate national project experience; they are not presented as permanent Prestige Estate Services office locations.
Travel decisions consider the intended use, property categories, volume of items, value level, inspection requirements, deadline, available records, and whether on-site work is the most appropriate way to develop credible assignment results.
Prestige Estate Services can also coordinate additional qualified appraisers when a substantial project includes property outside one appraiser’s competency. That structure allows complex assignments to receive appropriate category knowledge without losing centralized project communication and reporting.
Formal valuation work depends on professional competency, independence, current standards education, reliable research, and a report designed for its stated purpose.
Anastasia has been a member in good standing of the International Society of Appraisers since 2019 and holds the Accredited Member designation.
Her USPAP education is current through December 2028, supporting ethical, impartial, and assignment-specific personal property appraisal practice.
Anastasia prepares qualified appraisal work for appropriate estate-tax and non-cash charitable-contribution assignments requiring submission to the Internal Revenue Service.
The applicable value definition, effective date, research, analysis, and report content are determined by the assignment—not by a client’s preferred outcome.
Appraiser qualifications and report requirements should be evaluated in relation to the specific property and intended use of each assignment. Prestige Estate Services does not provide legal or tax advice.
Anastasia’s specialty encompasses Modern through Contemporary art, including paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and photography. Her analysis begins by identifying the artist, medium, date or period, dimensions, edition information when applicable, physical characteristics, inscriptions, labels, and documented ownership history.
Primary-market and secondary-market experience helps her distinguish among gallery representation, dealer offerings, auction results, private-market evidence, and other sources that may reflect different transaction conditions. The relevant market is selected according to the artwork, type of value, effective date, and intended use of the report.
Condition is evaluated in context. Surface changes, structural concerns, fading, tears, losses, repairs, restoration, mounting, framing, and completeness can affect desirability and comparability, but their influence varies by artist, medium, age, market tier, and scarcity.
For additional information about the firm’s broader capabilities, review Prestige Estate Services’ art appraisal services.
Research may address attribution, artist chronology, medium, support, subject, provenance, exhibition history, publication history, condition, and comparable works.
Edition size, impression quality, printer or publisher, paper, signatures, numbering, state, catalog references, and condition can shape the market analysis.
Material, dimensions, foundry or fabrication details, edition information, patina, surface, structural stability, provenance, and scale are considered as relevant.
Process, date printed, edition, image and sheet size, printing history, signatures, labels, condition, and relationship to other known prints may inform value.
Estate assignments often involve more than identifying individual valuable objects. Executors, trustees, attorneys, accountants, and family representatives may need a coordinated record of art, furniture, decorative property, silver, collectibles, and household contents as of a legally relevant effective date.
For estate-tax work, Anastasia develops fair market value conclusions for the personal property included in her assignment. The report scope reflects the property, effective date, intended users, intended use, level of market research, and documentation required for the filing.
Probate and estate-administration needs vary by jurisdiction and matter. A report may support an inventory, allocation, settlement discussion, fiduciary accounting, sale decision, or another defined estate purpose. The engagement is scoped before inspection and research begin.
Learn more about IRS-qualified estate tax appraisals and estate inventory and valuation appraisals.
Personal property is identified, researched, and valued as of the appropriate effective date for the estate’s defined tax-reporting purpose.
An organized valuation can support probate inventories, fiduciary administration, family allocation, settlement discussions, and court-related documentation.
Qualified-appraisal work for non-cash charitable contributions is developed for the donated property and applicable IRS reporting requirements. Review our charitable donation appraisal services.
An appraisal prepared before a loss commonly addresses replacement-cost considerations so the owner and insurance professional can evaluate whether scheduled limits and item descriptions reflect the current market. This analysis is different from fair market value work prepared for many estate, donation, probate, or equitable-distribution matters.
When property has been damaged, the assignment may require documentation of the object, review of pre-loss records, identification of the affected materials, consideration of restoration information, and analysis of value before and after the event. The precise question depends on the policy, claim, available evidence, and intended use.
Anastasia’s art-market background is particularly useful when a claim involves paintings, works on paper, sculpture, photography, or other objects whose replacement sources and market tiers require careful selection. Her general-contents practice also supports claims involving furniture, decorative art, silver, collectibles, and household property.
Prestige Estate Services provides independent valuation documentation and does not decide insurance coverage. Clients and counsel should address policy interpretation and coverage questions with the appropriate insurance or legal professionals.
Read more about our personal property insurance appraisal services.
Detailed property descriptions and replacement-cost research can support discussions about appropriate coverage for significant art, collections, and other personal property.
The appraisal record may connect photographs, physical observations, prior documentation, restoration evidence, comparable property, and relevant market conditions.
When the original property is unavailable, the assignment may rely more heavily on photographs, receipts, prior appraisals, collection records, expert information, and credible market evidence.
Anastasia is available for expert-witness assignments involving personal property valuation. Depending on the engagement, her role may include defining the appraisal problem, inspecting and documenting property, analyzing market evidence, preparing a written report, explaining methodology, participating in deposition, or offering trial testimony.
Litigation assignments require a clear separation between advocacy and independent appraisal judgment. The client or attorney may define the legal dispute and supply relevant documents, but the appraiser remains responsible for the scope of work, research, assumptions, analysis, and conclusions presented as her professional opinion.
Her 2026 professional development includes the American Society of Appraisers Expert Witness Forum and Mock Trial as well as International Society of Appraisers expert-witness training. This education complements her practical appraisal, market, and report-writing experience.
Learn about the firm’s litigation appraisal review services and equitable distribution appraisals.
The report communicates the assignment conditions, property identification, research, methodology, analyses, assumptions, limiting conditions, and value conclusions.
Anastasia may explain her appraisal process, the evidence considered, the selected market, and how the facts of the assignment informed her conclusions.
Neutral personal property valuations can support divorce, inheritance, trust, partnership, and other matters in which parties require an organized basis for allocation.
Her specialty is Modern and Contemporary fine art, supported by experience with general household contents, estates, and mixed personal property collections.
Competency is confirmed before accepting an assignment. When a project contains categories requiring different specialist knowledge, Prestige Estate Services may coordinate additional qualified appraisers or subject-matter resources.
Each project is tailored to its intended use, but a formal assignment generally moves through four connected stages.
Prestige Estate Services confirms the client, intended users, intended use, effective date, property categories, access, deadlines, and reporting requirements.
Anastasia records relevant characteristics, measurements, materials, markings, condition observations, photographs, provenance information, and available supporting documents.
Research may include object identification, artist or maker information, market selection, comparable transactions, replacement sources, condition effects, and effective-date data.
The written appraisal connects the assignment conditions, evidence, analysis, methodology, assumptions, limiting conditions, and value conclusions in a usable professional record.
Artist or maker, date, title, medium, dimensions, marks, signatures, edition details, labels, inscriptions, catalogs, and reliable documentation help define what is being valued.
Wear, damage, repair, restoration, fading, losses, structural issues, surface changes, missing components, framing, mounting, and presentation can influence buyer response.
Ownership history, exhibition records, publication history, collection labels, invoices, artist correspondence, and documented associations may affect confidence and marketability.
Availability of comparable works, edition size, frequency at auction, gallery access, geographic distribution, and the scarcity of similar examples help frame the analysis.
Collector interest, institutional attention, representation, recent exhibitions, critical reception, economic conditions, and transaction venue may affect current demand.
Fair market value, replacement cost, and other defined value concepts answer different questions. Conclusions must also reflect information and market conditions relevant to the appraisal’s effective date.
Anastasia’s coursework reflects continuing development in appraisal standards, methodology, fine art, advanced analysis, professional conferences, and expert-witness practice.
2020
Core Course in Appraisal Studies, International Society of Appraisers
2020
15-Hour USPAP Course, The Appraisal Foundation
2021
Foundation for Appraisal Education scholarship supporting further fine art education
2022
Appraising Fine Art Specialty Course, International Society of Appraisers
2022
7-Hour USPAP Update Course, The Appraisal Foundation
2023
International Society of Appraisers Assets Conference, Houston, Texas
2024
Advanced Appraisal Methodology, International Society of Appraisers
2024
7-Hour USPAP Update Course, The Appraisal Foundation
2024
International Society of Appraisers Assets Conference, Montreal, Canada
2025
Requalification Course, The Appraisal Foundation
2025
International Society of Appraisers Assets Conference, Washington, D.C.
2026
American Society of Appraisers Expert Witness Forum and Mock Trial
2026
International Society of Appraisers Assets Conference, Phoenix, Arizona
2026
Expert Witness Training for Appraisers, International Society of Appraisers
Yes. Anastasia is based in the Denver area and provides personal property appraisal services throughout Colorado. She also travels nationwide for select assignments based on project size, specialty, location, inspection needs, timing, and complexity.
Her principal specialty is Modern through Contemporary fine art, including paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, and photography. She also appraises general household contents and varied personal property for estates and other formal uses.
Yes. Anastasia’s USPAP education is current through December 2028. She is also an Accredited Member of the International Society of Appraisers and has been a member in good standing since 2019.
Yes, when the assignment and property fall within her competency. She prepares IRS-qualified appraisal work for appropriate estate-tax and non-cash charitable-donation purposes through Prestige Estate Services.
Yes. Her insurance-related work may include replacement-cost appraisals for coverage, documentation of damaged property, analysis of relevant condition information, and valuation support for loss matters.
Yes. Depending on the engagement, expert-witness services may include appraisal-report preparation, deposition participation, trial testimony, and explanation of her research, methodology, assumptions, and value conclusions.
No. Anastasia Eikenberry and Prestige Estate Services appraise tangible personal property. We do not provide real estate appraisals.
Submit the Prestige Estate Services contact form or call 1 (844) ITEM-VAL. The firm will review the property, intended use, location, timeline, and required competency before confirming whether Anastasia or another qualified team member is the appropriate appraiser.
Tell us where the property is located, what needs to be appraised, the intended use of the report, and any known deadlines. We will review the assignment and connect you with the appropriate appraiser.
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