Office fire...smoke damage to publications

[murphusa]

My experience with smoke damaged goods, including paper products is that no one wants them.

I have taken baseball gloves and left in hanging in a ventalated garage for a year to get out smoke smell and as soon as I sell it and ship it to a person they always come back because the smoke smell come back in the box.

Paper the same, no one wants it

[travrosty]

if it were a scarce publication, desirable item that is few and far between, people would want it, smoke damage or not.

i know a guy who only needs 1 joe louis program to complete his set of about 25.


its gus dorazio versus louis and he doesnt know if it even exists, no one has ever seen one.

searching 20 plus year and if he ever found one, he wouldnt care if it smelled like smoke, the price would be the same sky high price either way due to scarcity.

now if the program were plentiful, then people would go with the no smoke version, obviously. but scarcity cures all so to speak.

[blaze422]

Thanks Leon, but I'm not sure there is that much interest in this issue
FWIW, I see that Justask.com has appraisers who monitor questions and if I wanted to pay $30 for "not urgent" to $50 for "urgent" I can poise my question.. . Today I spoke to the adjuster and he thought that might be a good/cheap opinion.

All my Sporting News from 1929-1963 were in archival boxes and were fine
The framed pieces were already in boxes and I didn't inspect them but based on framed prints in other parts of my office I'm assuming they would have smoke under the glass. The adjuster and I plan to deal with conditions when we have the office up and running.

[Deertick]

Are the items replaceable? If so, they shouldn't have a problem giving you FMV, and you can repurchase. As stated above, they are damaged beyond repair. Not damaged beyond display necessarily, but you can't fix what's wrong. You would most likely have to relinquish the item. I'm pretty sure they would be far less likely to prorate the loss of something like that. Unless your policy specifies that?