Brown had an appearance as an appraiser in episode 8 ("The Fast and The Curious") of the third season of Storage Wars.
It was purchased in 1986 by film producer Joel Silver after Donna Butler, a FLW real estate appraiser, convinced him to restore it.
Because the Bank of Illinois was beholden to state policy, and because the state legislature forced the bank to support real estate, Homer Hoyt, land economist and real estate appraiser, states that the Bank of Illinois may not have been charging appropriate interest rates given the probability of default.
During the Civil War, he served as colonel of a militia regiment in 1864 and was an appraiser of the Confederate States Government to regulate the value of the Confederate dollar.
(McLaughlin, 1940) When the U.S. Customs Service assigned Cline to be the appraiser of merchandise at the port of Cleveland, Ohio in 1922, she was the first woman to hold such a post.
In contrast to this explanation are the comments of appraiser John Solo on Antiques Roadshow in 2011.
He made his living first (1830) as a clerk, then as a merchant (until 1852), and eventually was appointed by President Franklin Pierce as an appraiser for the United States Customs Service (1852-1860).
Lori Verderame (best known as Dr. Lori) is the appraiser on the American TV show Auction Kings.
After his pro baseball career ended, he became a licensed real estate appraiser and from 1987 to 2000 he was Commercial Department Manager for the Tarrant County, Texas Appraisal District.
According to appraiser Elyse Luray, this placed him at the "peak of his profession".