Appraisal Services
Sports Memorabilia & Cards Appraisals
Entertainment Memorabilia Appraisals
Pop Culture Memorabilia Appraisals
Auto, Space, Aviation, Motorcycles & Memorabilia Appraisals
Leila has appraised thousands of transportation related memorabilia and vehicles, for clients including the Smithsonian, Houston Space Center, Warner Bros., Hollywood Science Fiction Museum, Air & Space Museum, as well as for the estates/collections of Richard Petty, Dan Wheldon, Arnold Palmer, Gregg Allman, Phil Spector, Prince, Leonard Nimoy, Muhammad Ali, Dunbar Armored Car Company, etc.
Wine & Spirits Appraisals
Areas Of Pop Culture Memorabilia Appraisals
About Leila
Leila Dunbar is one of the top pop culture memorabilia appraisers in the country, with specialties in sports, entertainment, pop culture, comic and animation art, auto, space, aviation, motorcycles, wine and many other sub-categories of pop culture memorabilia.
With more than thirty-five years in the pop culture memorabilia business, she is one of a small group of specialists in this area with both extensive auction appraisal experience and expertise. Leila has sold items/collections from $5 to $5 million, first with her family business (1987-1999) then as director of Sotheby’s Collectibles (1999-2008).
Since 2008, Leila has prepared more than 500 appraisal reports for insurance coverage and claims, non-cash charitable contributions, estate settlement, litigation and for potential sale. Leila is a qualified IRS appraiser and prepares appraisals following the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice established by the Appraisal Foundation in 1989, where Leila has served as the Chair of the Board Of Trustees.
Leila also provides auctioneering, public speaking, expert witness, media commentary and brokerage services. Since its inception in 1996, Leila has appeared as an appraiser on the long-running PBS hit series Antiques Roadshow.
Additional Services
Auctioneering
Public Speaking & Lectures
Recent Posts
Collectibles Market Madness!
ROADSHOW collectibles expert Leila Dunbar explains what's currently hot, and getting hotter, in the world of pop-culture collectibles. If you took a poll of the appraisers from the collectibles auction houses, they would tell you their amazement at how much their...
Now celebs can show off their items on ‘Antiques Roadshow’
Now celebs can show off their items on ‘Antiques Roadshow’ This image released by WGBH-TV shows Katy Kane, left, as she appraises celebrity chef Carla Hall’s vintage purse collection in an episode of “Antiques Roadshow Celebrity Edition,” airing May 10 on PBS....
Inside the mysterious world of missing sports memorabilia
Inside the mysterious world of missing sports memorabilia ESPN | by Kelly Cohen and Dan Hajducky | May 7, 2021 We've all misplaced something -- car keys, wallets, a W-2 from last year. But what about misplacing something worth millions that has incredible historical...
