Historical Research LLC Authentications

[Dolf]

Guys,

I am not sure I understand - my guarantee is on the front page of my site for everybody to see. It's just a promise without any fancy certificates, but this is what my business is based on - mutual trust between me and the collectors. If we you talking about putting it on paper, I've always thought that my word is worth more.

Alexei

Alexei,

Of course your word is more than enough as a guarantee, that's not the point.

We were talking about paper authetication, and as someone mentioned, the eventual future necessity of all awards to be authenticated by the seller, on paper. We were also talking about the fact dealers should or shouldn't authenticate these awards. As you can read above some of us consider it ethically correct, others don't, or at least have some reservations about that.

Just imagine this situation: when you sell a piece, anyone buying from you knows for sure that you guarantee it for life so that's fine.
Now, imagine that the buyer wants to resell it one day: just saying he bought it from you might not be enough, but as Rusty suggested, if there was a signed paper with that piece then that would be considered a written guarantee each time the award would pass from one hand to another.
For me, as I said above, your word is more than enough (otherwise I wouldn't have bought almost my entire Soviet awards collection from you, only occasionally buying a few items from other suppliers) but if I was to resell it in the future, I wonder if it would be enough that I say "Buyers, I bought this stuff from Nota Bene", see what I mean?

Anyway, that's how I understood Rusty's agreement with Yolkin post, reason why I agreed with that point. Guys please correct me if I'm wrong.

Dolf