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Preferred access

Every picture on this site is open to view, and every catalogue note can be read in full. What sits behind them is not. Preferred access releases the documents: laboratory reports, certificates of origin, condition reports and the private collection record.

01

Apply

Name, contact and the field you collect in. A specialist reviews each application individually.

02

Verification

We confirm identity and, where a purchase is contemplated, source of funds. This is normally a short conversation.

03

Access

An access code and a named specialist. Documents open across the catalogue, and you are shown works before they are published.

Open to everyone

No account needed

Every picture

All photography of every work, at full size, including detail and verso plates.

Artist and title

The maker, the title, the date, the medium and the dimensions of each work.

Catalogue notes

The full written note for each work, as prepared by the specialist.

Prices

The asking price, or a note that the price is available on application.

Released by application

The documents

Laboratory reports

Gemological passports, origin opinions and microscopy, Gulf Gem Lab, SSEF, Gübelin, AGL.

Certificates

Certificates of origin and authentication opinions in full.

Condition reports

Written condition, restoration history and, for watches, service records.

Ownership record

The private collection record and the chain of ownership behind each work.