Guides
Collecting guides & advice
How timed online sales are conducted, how objects are described and valued, and how manuscripts, books, autographs, photographs and works on paper should be cared for.
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VALÉORINE Reference
Reference is the part of VALÉORINE that exists whether or not anything is for sale: what a term means, how a maker worked, how a technique is identified, how provenance is established. Where a current sale is genuinely relevant to what you are reading, it is shown — chosen for relevance, never because VALÉORINE happens to operate the platform.
Terminology
The Knowledge Centre
Catalogue terminology, condition vocabulary and the questions collectors and sellers ask most often, answered in writing.
Open the Knowledge CentreResearch
Research & provenance
Provenance method, documentary evidence and the standards VALÉORINE applies when it examines, catalogues and describes an object.
Research notesEditorial
The Journal
Writing on authors, photographers, makers, movements and single objects, each entry permanently citable.
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Institutional archive
The permanent record of what VALÉORINE has published: exhibitions, editorial and reference material, kept separate from commercial results.
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VALÉORINE specialisms
The five fields VALÉORINE catalogues itself, and how an object is placed within them.
The fields in detailFrom knowledge to auction
How Reference connects to what is selling
One
A subject
An author, photographer, maker, movement, technique or term.
Two
Reference
What is known, written plainly, with its sources named where they exist.
Three
Related material
Adjacent subjects, related works and further reading within the reference estate.
Four
Currently at auction
Relevant lots now offered — by VALÉORINE, by private sellers, or by admitted auction houses, each with its conducting entity named.