When something happens to your collection, you have the paperwork ready.
Fire. Flood. Theft. Hopefully none of those. But your homeowner's policy probably caps collectibles at a few thousand dollars unless you schedule them — and to schedule them, you need a written appraisal with a date, a methodology, and per-item values.
This is that document. Generated from your Brickfolio in about a minute. Valuations frozen against the active price guide so the number on it can't move later. The same document works for estate planning, sales, and high-value purchase records.
When you need one
Four moments where the cert matters
A spreadsheet of what you paid is not an appraisal. A screenshot of an eBay listing is not an appraisal. These are the moments where the difference is the difference.
Homeowner / Renter Insurance Rider
Most policies cap collectibles at a few thousand dollars unless you schedule them. A dated certificate with a defensible valuation is what your agent needs to add a rider for the collection you actually have.
Estate Planning & Inheritance
Document fair market value for wills, trusts, and probate. Heirs get a clear, dated record of what every set was worth at a specific point in time — not a guess years later.
Selling or Transferring a Collection
Whether you're selling to another collector, consigning, or transferring sets in a divorce or business dissolution, both sides need the same source of truth. A frozen valuation removes the argument.
High-Value Purchase Documentation
Picked up a sealed UCS Millennium Falcon or a vintage modular for serious money? Get a contemporaneous appraisal so the value is on record at the time of purchase, not reconstructed later.
How the valuation works
Real market data, frozen on the day
Every certificate value is pulled from our monthly price guide — a market snapshot rebuilt from multiple data streams:
- eBay sold listings
Real completed sales from the recent window, segmented by condition (sealed vs. used) so a sealed set is compared to other sealed sets.
- BrickLink part-out values
For sets where the parts are worth more than the box, the part-out value is incorporated as a floor — important for retired sets that are commonly broken down.
- Current and historical retail
Retailer pricing provides a sanity check against the secondary market and anchors valuations for sets still in production.
When you generate a certificate, valuations are copied into the PDF from whichever snapshot is currently active. They never change after that — even if the market moves the next day. The whole point is that the document is a contemporaneous record.
What's on the document
Reads like a professional valuation, because that's what it is
The PDF is the artifact. Your insurance agent, your attorney, or your buyer should be able to read it cold and understand exactly what they're looking at.
Set number, name, theme, year, piece count, condition (sealed / used), and the current market value for each set in the certificate.
Every value is locked to the price guide active at the moment of generation. The number on the cert can't shift later — that's the entire point.
Plain-English explanation of how values were calculated: which marketplaces, which date range, and the rules used to pick the headline number.
Each certificate carries a unique ID, a verification URL, and a QR code your insurance agent or buyer can scan to confirm the document is real and unaltered.
How many you get
Generating a certificate costs us real compute and real data-licensing dollars, so we cap how many you can run per year by plan. Most collectors only need a couple. Resellers and investors need more.
Free
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Forever free
Preview only
Build out a Brickfolio and preview what a certificate would contain — useful for seeing your collection's aggregate value before deciding to upgrade. Generated PDFs are not included.
Start freeCollector
$9.99
/month
A couple of certificates a year
Right-sized for most collectors who need an annual rider refresh and one extra cert for an estate update or a sale.
Compare plansReseller
$39.99
/month
Frequent certs + bulk multi-set PDFs
More certificates per year plus the bulk multi-set format for documenting an entire portfolio in a single document. Built for resellers, estate handlers, and collectors with a real inventory to insure.
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How current are the valuations?
Can I get a certificate for sets I don't own yet?
What happens if values change after I generate the cert?
Sealed vs. used — does the certificate handle both?
How long does it take to generate?
Get your collection on paper.
Build a Brickfolio for free. When you're ready to schedule a rider, document an estate, or close a sale, generate the cert — usually in under a minute.