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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8238502, member: 26430"]I've been asked for passports before. I don't remember all of them, but at least a couple of Spanish auction houses, perhaps some others in Europe (Switzerland and Germany?) and/or UK. I believe this usually has to do with (1) differential taxation for EU/UK/other customers abroad; AND/OR (2) import/export restrictions for cultural property and antiquities (less often, but likely in the case of Spain now). (I suspect that "passport" is just the term people use for "ID" in many places, as Americans use "Driver's License" when they're asking for identification; an ID other than passport sometimes works fine. In at least one or two cases I asked if I could use my US driver's license and they were okay with it. But, depending on location, shipping address isn't necessarily enough because citizens/non-citizens are meant to pay (or not) regardless of where they're currently living.) These are in response to technical legal and financial issues required in some places (sometimes it might not matter for $200 orders but they have to be prepared for $20,000 orders too).[/QUOTE]