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What a catalogue actually looks like
Rather than describe the work, here is a real one. Ten donated artworks, photographed, measured, condition-reported, researched and priced against documented sales. Names and locations have been redacted. Everything else is exactly as it was delivered.
This catalogue was produced for a charity retail partner whose donated stock was being priced by guesswork. Ten pieces came out of the back room. One of them had been sitting on the floor at $1,700 with no buyer, and the research showed why.
Every entry does three jobs
A catalogue that only lists what you own is an inventory. What makes it useful is that each entry records the object, explains it, and then justifies a number you can actually stand behind.
The object, recorded
Multi-angle photographs of the front, the back, the signature and the labels. Measurements taken by tape, not estimated. Condition described honestly, including the losses and the foxing. This is the part that survives a dispute.
The research
Who made it, when, and what the marks mean. A canvas stamp traced to a manufacturer in Cluj. A signature whose J merges into the R. An artist's exhibition history reconstructed from library records. Where a name cannot be established, the entry says so plainly.
The number, evidenced
Every figure is anchored to documented sales, each one named with the house, the price and the date. Two values are given: a researched market range, and a realistic asking price. No figure appears without something behind it.
The $1,700 piece turned out to be a genuine 1890s New Zealand colonial oil by a listed painter, correctly attributed but priced against a single record outlier. Thirty-four documented sales put it at $300 to $700. Repriced to $475, evidence attached.
Three pages, as delivered
The whole thing, eleven pages
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The services behind it
Try it with one item
Photograph anything you are unsure about and email it over. We will come back with an honest first read on what it looks like and whether it is worth investigating properly, at no charge. If it warrants a full written valuation with comparable sales evidence behind it, we will quote you a fixed fee before we start.