Appraisals & Management of Personal Property
Bardo Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) is a national appraisal, personal property management, and consulting firm founded in Chicago, IL in 1980. We help clients to acquire, maintain, and disperse valuables through a network of specialists in appraisal, estate planning, conservation, framing, finance, insurance, law, security and taxation.
Pamela Pierrepont Bardo, A.S.A., A.A.A., founder and principal of the Firm, is an Accredited Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers and a former member of their International Board of Examiners. Pamela Bardo is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America. A former museum director, Ms. Bardo is a certified appraiser in multiple areas of personal property including residential contents, antiques, silver, and fine arts. She has extensive courtroom and insurance claim experience and has served as an expert witness for many of the top law firms and banks in Chicago and nationwide.
The firm has appraised works for the Art Institute of Chicago, Smart Museum, Driehaus Museum, Saint Louis Science Center, BMO Harris Bank, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Ripon College, Woman's Athletic Club of Chicago, Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, Northwestern University, The Episcopal Church of Chicago, and Yale University.
From prints to ceramics, autographs to automobilia, miniature rooms to large sculptures, we can tell you what it's worth!