Master Appraiser
Llewellyn M. Dykes
GPPA, CES, NAA

Julie Dykes
Antiques, Jewelry, Residential Contents
Dustin Dykes
Antiques, Residential Contents, Sports Cards and Sports Memorabilia
Steven Bush, GIA
Jewelry
Jack Ayoub
Oriental Rugs & Textiles
Dwight Dykes
Oriental and Manufactured Carpets, Flooring,
Thermographic Imaging

Llewellyn "Kelly" Dykes
Master Appraiser, Graduate Personal Property Appraiser, Certified Estate Specialist
Appraisal Consultant to the Estate of James Brown
Mr. Dykes has been awarded advanced certification as Master Appraiser in the fields of art and antiques and residential contents appraisals, as well as in-plant equipment and machinery evaluations, awarded after participating in extensive course completion and testing.

Mr. Dykes is certified and accredited as a qualified personal property appraiser, and has been awarded advanced certification in the fields of antiques and residential contents appraisals, as well as in-plant equipment and machinery evaluations, awarded after participating in extensive course completion and testing. The appraiser has performed by court order as personal property appraiser for the Family Court in the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina, as well as for Binding Arbitration in the City of Savannah, Georgia. He conducts a significant volume of estate, divorce and insurance appraisals of personal property items each year for members of the legal profession, insurance companies, bank trust officers, private individuals and the courts, and has testified as an expert witness in the area of personal property and antiques appraisals in the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina, and as an expert in dozens of other cases which settled before or during trial.

The appraiser participates in the ongoing continuing education program for personal property appraisers through the Graduate Personal Property Appraiser program administered by the National Auctioneers Association Education Institute as coordinated through the University of Indiana. He is one of only a very small percentage of auctioneers in the United States to have been awarded the designation GPPA as a certified personal property appraiser. The appraiser is further a Certified Estate Specialist, said designation awarded through the National Auctioneers Association Education Institute, coordinated through the University of Indiana, having completed extensive courses conducted by ASA and ISA instructors, and testing in the fields of Estate Management, Sales and Distribution.

The appraiser has owned and administered a wholesale antiques business, supplying English and European antiques and collectibles to the trade in the United States; he has owned a retail antiques and collectibles store, Carriage House Antiques, located at 37th Street and Abercorn Street in Savannah, Georgia.

The appraiser is an auctioneer licensed in the state of Georgia. While active as an auctioneer, he conducted more than three hundred fifty individual auctions and sold at auction more than $1,500,000.00 per year in personal property merchandise. Mr. Dykes buys and sells at numerous auctions in England, Wales, and throughout the eastern United States, and has functioned as an importing and marketing consultant to antique store and mall operations in Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, Texas, Illinois and Utah.