"In the 19th Century if you needed a trophy made you went to Elkington and Co," said Craig O'Donnell, a valuer and curator at the Birmingham Assay Office.
Until then, farmers were compensated at a market rate determined by a valuer chosen by the farmer from a government list.
Farmers could select a valuer from the government's list.
Jude, a valuer for a modern-day London auction house, is called to a remote part of Norfolk to assess a 300-year-old collection accrued by solitary stargazer Anthony Wickham.
Kathy Taylor, a valuer for specialist auctioneers Vectis Auctions in Thornaby, Teesside, said: "It was unbelievable to see all the boxes coming out with stock that was factory fresh, which hadn't been opened, it was like a time capsule".
Their compensation will be set according to an independent valuation of the bank, decided by a valuer who will be instructed to assess what the bank would have been worth without any support from the government.Having decided to nationalise, the government may yet face even tougher decisions.
Dorothy, a peer and ex-model, lives in this mouldering mansion with her companion, Iris, and shrinks from the idea of it being opened to the public gaze; she is even tempted by an offer from a valuer, working on behalf of a shadowy consortium, to transport the whole house to Dorset or Wiltshire.
"Sabri Tahir's office in the Turkish quarter of Kyrenia bore a sun-blistered legend describing him as a valuer and real estate agent, but his activities had proliferated since the board was painted, and he was clearly many things besides," Durrell wrote.
He has been told by a valuer that the sketch could be worth £1.3m - but says he does not want to sell it.
