13 Sep
2024
13 Sep
'24
2:44 a.m.
Yes, but a Christies certificate of authentication is a gold standard.
On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 9:39 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Thu, 12 Sep 2024, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> I wonder
if anyone has done a study of high-profile auction sale prices
vs
> apples to apples contemporary sales prices
(ebay, etc) of the same item.
> Paul Allen's [item name] will always sell for more that Joe Schmo's
[item
name].
Buyer can forever say this was Paul Allen's [item name]. The
providence
How do you prove it? Kinda like Babe Ruth
baseballs.
The closest that you can get is records of the serial number.
And statements of experts.
A signed statement by Abby Sciuto of his fingerprints on it, and that that
was his DNA in the drop of dried blood where previous owner cut themselves
on the sharp edge.