ABOUT
The Collector’s Lab
The Collector’s Lab was founded in 2007 with the goal of providing individualized, high-level professional and appraisal services to private collectors, institutions, insurance companies, museums, and wealth management professionals. The lab focuses on delivering these services with the highest level of confidentiality and integrity.
Our area of specialization and expertise is in properties of pop culture, celebrity and entertainment. With over ten years of experience in the auction and appraisal industries, company president, Laura Woolley, has found, through experience, that the artifacts of popular culture present new challenges to appraisers and specialists alike. Most items in this field are unique and require an individualized approach. No two collections are alike and The Collector’s Lab prides itself on tailoring our approach to address the needs of each collection.
LAURA WOOLLEY
President
Laura Woolley attended New York University receiving a Bachelors degree in Art History. She worked at Sotheby’s Auction house in New York from 1997 – 2001 in the company’s Collectibles Department participating in the sale of film posters, antique toys, Hollywood and Rock n’ Roll memorabilia.
She left Sotheby’s to study at The London School of Economics where she earned a Masters degree in New Media and Communications. She returned to the United States as the Chief Operating Officer of Julien’s Auction house in Los Angeles, where she helped the company build it’s live auction business, managing sales of Barbra Streisand, Marilyn Monroe, and Cher memorabilia in addition to a full schedule of entertainment memorabilia and charity sales.
Laura has successfully completed the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice examination and has founded her own company, The Collector’s Lab, to which she brings this diverse background of professional and academic experience.