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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3515137, member: 90666&quot;]Auctioneers and dealers routinely discard tags. Some, carelessly. Some systematically. No one has ever received an old tag from a NAC sale for example, unless you specifically ask. I go to a great deal of effort to make my own tickets (the round tickets written in pencil) and to collect the information and the old tickets. I have realised that I must memorialise the tickets in photographs, both my own carefully written tickets as well as those from prior collectors or sellers. Because if I do not, that information will probably be lost forever. Even where the information is transcribed into an auction description, it may not be done so in the way I would like, for example to emphasise the importance of one or other provenance. Or it may omit the name of a famous (to me) or important (to you) prior collector which may be the most significant thing in the provenance. The Crawford 36/1 As in my pictures was owned by &quot;von Kaufmann&quot;. That means nothing when it&#039;s written as such in an auction description. But my description on my little tag makes clear that Geheimrat von Kaufmann was a Privy Counciller to Kaiser Wilhelm II and died in 1908 (in fact he was the Prussian minister of Finance under the Empire). So writing &quot;von Kaufmann collection&quot; says almost nothing but my ticket says a lot. Whilst it is easy to think one can control these matters when one sells ones coins, really it&#039;s a sausage machine. You cannot control how an auctioneer will present a $300 coin or even a $3000 coin. And you may be dead. So, put the information in a photo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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