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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9745655, member: 79705&quot;]Not everything has a COA... That&#039;s a secondary market middle-man thing. Studios/productions rarely label things or even track them. Even now, it has to be a big budget blockbuster for props to be inventoried and tagged (and that&#039;s for hero props mostly). You&#039;re more likely to see a tag in a costume, than on a prop.</p><p><br /></p><p>Older props and set-related stuff was considered worthless by the studios in general. Disney had to re-buy a lot of the stuff that is now in their vaults. They gave away Mary Poppins bag in a contest. Studios sold stuff to rental houses, or disposed of it. Drew Struzan got told by a friend that his famous Adventures in Babysitting poster art was found face-to-face down in a puddle of water in a warehouse and they were going to throw it out. I had some friends who discovered the director chair backs for a very famous classic film used as stuffing filler in an unrelated prop.</p><p><br /></p><p>The way that major prop auction houses go about things are to try and directly screen-match items and to look into provenance. Is the owner in the film industry, or aquired from a film house sale, etc. Is it made in a way that makes sense for a prop and the materials used at the time? Do we have records of that particular thing having been sold already?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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