IMPROVEMENT OF APPROACHES FOR CARRYING OUT PRODUCT EXPERTISE ON THE EXAMPLE OF ASSESSMENT OF ANTIQUE AND COLLECTIBLE ITEMS

Abstract

Today, in the conditions of economic instability and war, one of the areas of preservation of material values are antiques and collectibles. But the only factor that holds back sales deals on the antique market is the lack of predictable sales prices. The results were obtained due to the application of the following methods: abstraction – when determining the essence of the "collection premium" category; grouping – to determine the parameters of the collection premium; general and special – when clarifying the specifics of evaluating antiques and collectibles. The specificity of the functioning mechanism of the modern market of antiques and collectibles is established, which is based on pricing taking into account different levels of valuation of the object of the trade agreement depending on the time and place of sale, the number of objects and subjects interested in their acquisition. It is shown that all deals in such a market are based on forecast prices, i.e. those that are determined by a specific expert based on his subjective ideas and very often do not correspond to the real state of affairs. It was found that even national legislation uses different criteria to define antiques and collectibles, which makes market interactions in this area quite risky and uncertain. It has been established that most of the existing methods of carrying out commodity examination of completely different antiques and collectibles, as well as determining their estimated value, do not have universal criteria for attribution, examination and verification of conclusions. Universal parameters have been determined, based on the application of which the size of the collector's premium can be determined for almost all antiques and collectibles that undergo examination in each specific period. Based on the need to combine a large number of methods used today to carry out commodity examination of antiques and collectibles, a universal methodical approach was created, which is based on taking into account the size of the collection premium. The proposed universal methodical approach will allow experts and professional market subjects to evaluate antiques and collectibles regardless of their belonging to different product groups and at a price as close as possible to their real value.