Timothy Gordon, I.S.A.A, A.O.A.
Experience - Selected Highlights:
Traveling Nationally and Internationally
• The Lis Claiborne Estate.
• The Levis Strauss Corporate Collection.
• The Bovey General Mills - Collections.
National Park - Yellowstone and Mt. Rainier:
• Entire rare and historic contents of United States National Parks including antique furnishings of famous Lodges, antique vehicles, paintings, Decorative Arts, National Treasures:
• Appraiser of Yellowstone National Park.
• Appraiser of Mt. Rainier National Park.
Consultation:
•Consultant - Art Thefts / Stolen Antiquities - Confidential.
•Collection / Investment Consultant - Numerous Confidential.
State Museum Appraiser - Inventorying Entire Rare Contents of Museums:
• The Historic Wyoming Governors Mansion - Contents.
• Great Castle of America, Trail End Mansion - Contents.
• Great Castle of America, The Conrad Mansion - Contents
• Wyoming State Museum at Cheyenne - Appraiser of all significant Artifacts Including Arms & Armour, Ethnographica, Art, Molesworth Furnishings, etc.
• Wyoming State Archives - The Official Appraiser of all Significant Collections including the State Constitution.
• Montana State Museums - Numerous and Various Collections.
State Park Appraiser: World Record.
• Appraiser, Contents of Ghost Towns, Virginia City and Nevada City, Montana, Received national acclaim for the appraisal of the contents of the two famous restored ghost towns, Virginia City and Nevada City, Montana, and their combined collections. This has been recognized as the largest appraisal by a single appraiser. The collection included more than one million objects. In each of 150 buildings were objects ranging from early wagons and automobiles to entire general store contents, antique saloons, world-renowned collection of antique music machines, as well as tens of thousands of varied antiquities.
Various Museum Collections:
• The Gene Autry Museum, Los Angeles, California. Significant Historical Rarity.
• The Green River Valley County Museum, Entire Collections - Western & Native Americana, Big Piney, Wyoming.
• Montana State University Collections, Bozeman, Montana.
• University of Montana Collections at Missoula
• The Havre Underground, Underground -Underworld city, Havre, Montana. Subterranean underground city of low repute.
• The Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana.
• The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana.
• Fort Missoula Historical Museum, Missoula, Montana
• Ravalli County Museum, Hamilton, Montana
• The World Museum of Mining, Butte, Montana
• H. Earl Clack Historical Museum, Havre, Montana
• Various Museums from Coast to Coast
Corporate Collections:
• The Levi Strauss Corporate Collections and Archives.
• Numerous - confidential.
Film & Television:
• Antiquarian, Historian PBS Series, “Frontier House”. Second highest all time viewer ship of a public television series.
• Featured Appraiser on Fox Networks FX Collector Show.
Notable Trusts & Estate Appraisal & Liquidation:
• U.S. Bank Trust - Numerous.
• D.A. Davidson Investments - Numerous.
• Private - The Sue Ford Bovey Estate, The Ford Bovey Estate,
• Gilbert Millikin Estate, Missoula, Montana, etc.
• Estate of Entertainer, Hoyt Axton.
Personal Collection Appraisals - Over 1-10 Million Dollars per value in collections in Montana, California, Vermont, Toronto, Illinois.
Record Price Sales:
• Paintings have been offered by notables such as Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Amadeo Modigliani, Juan Gris, Charles M. Russell, Richard E. Miller, Josef Albers, Ruffino Tamayo, etc.
• Thomas Stretch Chippendale Clock.
• Outlaw Gun - Henry Plummer of the Plummer Gang.
• 1923 Bentley Automobile $350,000.
• Contemporary Art Works by Deborah Butterfield Horse Sculpture, Russell Chatham.
•Suits of Armour, Dinosaur Skeletons,
Gordon Appraisals & Gordon Fine Art are one of the countries most expert treasure/valuable brokers. We are generalist appraisers and brokers, who can sell virtually any item of significant value. This include antiques, coins, jewelry, stamps, paintings, rare automobiles, arms, entire collections!
Expert Witness Testimony/Arbitration:
• State Farm Insurance.
NON-CASH Charitable Donations steered:
We have helped clients place over 6 million in collections for charitable non-cash donation,to suitable donors.
Art Appraiser/Dealer:
• Private collections, Estates and Museums.
Consulting with Art Museums and Private Collections Nationally and Internationally.
Insurance Appraisal:
Numerous - confidential.
