Art collection insurance

[Last of the V8's]

Having bought the Hook Jaw art the other day makes me realise just hoe priceless my collection of original art is and if anything happened to it I doubt I'd get reimbured on the house insurance, despite having a collectables policy written in.
So, does any one who collects original have their's insured and for how much,how do you guage how much a page is worth,who is anyone insured with etc?

[robbycox]

Hi captainskank,
I've got my collection insured with Direct Line, it's insured on the contents insurance policy but under a seperate section, it add's about another £60 per year onto the premium. I recently upped the value of my collection, but lets face it, if anything happened to it, it is all totally unreplacable isn't it.
Direct Line sent a rep out to my house to check all locks on the windows and doors etc. before they agreed to cogvver it though. the only other stipulation was that i made sure i kept an up-to-date list of what i had.
I'd be interested in anyones thoughts on the outright value of my entire collection.
Cheers,
Rob.

[Pete Wells]

Aw Drokk it! Robbie's house was a one I had on my list of houses to break into to steal all the artwork in his collection!

If his windows and doors have been checked I might as well move on to Rufus', Fatboy Dale's, Kevin Symond's and Mark Willis' houses.

[Last of the V8's]

Cheers Robby.
Rufus, are you out there. Have you got your little lot insured?

[opaque]

Well as one of Petes potential victims ;)I can say that as far in terms of my artwork it's covered under the basic policy.
I need to keep a list of any items and the same goes for our immense collection of dvd's.  I have photos of all my artwork and general photos showing the walls of dvd's to add as proof as well if it was needed.

I suppsoe part of it is also a matter of how things are stored. I have all my artwork in a big wooden plan chest so they are all flat.