I had a similar issue in which I needed my third party storage company to 
take out insurance because the nature of the records that I was storing made 
them irreplaceable and the documents contained pictures of historical people 
including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Walt Disney, Mr. Goldwyn of MGM 
Studios, etc...so I contacted an auction house and, through them, found 
people who specialize in document collections.  Ultimately, though, a 
recommendation from RICE University in Houston, TX was the winner.  We found 
a specialist who evaluates estate, libary, and corpoate documents and 
collections in order to assign a value.  We are still going through the 
process of evaluation, but we are very pleased with the knowledge of our 
service provider, especially as he had dealt with documents where permanent 
retention is indicated and can evaluate what it would cost to replace them 
(if that is even possible).

We are using John Payne and Associates in Austin, TX.  However, we 
interviewed other specialists associated with Christie's Auction House, 
Sothebye's, and Ricketson-Howard.  Many of them had impressive credentials 
in dealing with document collections, but we selected our current provider 
based on the fact that he had extensive experience with presidential papers 
and corporate archives. 

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