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<p>[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3202097, member: 95174"]In the art world provenance is uncommon for any edition work even though some of these masterworks can sell for millions of dollars. It’s only on the original works that a provenance can be included but not always complete. The reason for this is basic trust, most dealers do not want to divulge their sources on where a work was acquired , giving away their source. Sometimes collectors don't want people to know they had to sell so they ask to remain anonymous.</p><p><br /></p><p>One way that older graphic works can be tracked is by a collector’s mark on the back. There is a reference for different collectors mark’s on the back of masterworks. This is usually a small stamped symbol on the back of the work. This of course only tells us one owner in the works life.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the coin world that would be very problematic, I have two coins in my collection that the collector marked with Indian ink, to be honest it is an eyesore and these pieces are not in my main collection.</p><p>I recently purchased two gold coins because of the provenance of a dealers tag from the last century, this to me added value to the coins even though one was in rough shape I got it anyway because of its historical value of ownership and I wanted the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3202097, member: 95174"]In the art world provenance is uncommon for any edition work even though some of these masterworks can sell for millions of dollars. It’s only on the original works that a provenance can be included but not always complete. The reason for this is basic trust, most dealers do not want to divulge their sources on where a work was acquired , giving away their source. Sometimes collectors don't want people to know they had to sell so they ask to remain anonymous. One way that older graphic works can be tracked is by a collector’s mark on the back. There is a reference for different collectors mark’s on the back of masterworks. This is usually a small stamped symbol on the back of the work. This of course only tells us one owner in the works life. In the coin world that would be very problematic, I have two coins in my collection that the collector marked with Indian ink, to be honest it is an eyesore and these pieces are not in my main collection. I recently purchased two gold coins because of the provenance of a dealers tag from the last century, this to me added value to the coins even though one was in rough shape I got it anyway because of its historical value of ownership and I wanted the coin.[/QUOTE]
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