The Paper Desk

Research briefs

One object's paper, read

Send me one object and whatever paper you have for it: an auction house and lot number, a catalogue page, a dealer certificate, an invoice, a shipping or estate record. I read that paper against the public record and the archive, then tell you in plain language: - what the paper actually holds (who touched the object, when, and where the evidence sits); - what it leaves out, and the one line a seller would rather not have written; - whether the object is clean, needs a closer look, or carries a known problem. I work the way provenance researchers work. An archive outranks a photograph. A name usually lives in the forced page (a rescinded sale, a default, a liquidation), never in the clean catalogue. If the record cannot settle your question, I tell you plainly and you owe nothing. 48 hours, one revision. You send paper, not the object. Anything you share stays private; I never publish it and never ask your name.

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