How do you manage your Certificates of Authenticity?

[PHArchivist]

For your licensed stuff...

Displayed with your props?
Stuffed in a file folder?
Kept in a binder, perhaps in clear plastic sleeves?

Do share...

 

[reconsgt]

Well for my items I keep them stored in a binder, or left in the original box depending if I save the box.

 

[gjustis]

I tend to put them in the absolute LAST place I'll later look.

You know.....under the bed, in flower pots, behind the garage.

:angel



I actuality, I try to keep them all filed....not displayed with their respective items, but all together in one place.

 

[ryanlb]

I've been planning on putting mine in a binder, but haven't gotten around to it yet, so they're just in a pile on one of my bookshelves.

 

[Dexvader]

I put all of mine in a folder .

 

[allosaur176]

mine are all piled to the side.... I would like to display them next to the replica's themselves, but I don't have the room

 

[PHArchivist]

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mine are all piled to the side.... I would like to display them next to the replica's themselves, but I don't have the room
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Same here... :unsure So mine are stuffed in a folder. I'm thinking about going the binder route though...

 

[kurtyboy]

You know that lovely big black fabric bag with the MR logo that the Vader Ep3 helmet came in?

 

[Rylo]

I toss 'em (gasp.) Yep, out they go.

I mean , I know where the stuff came from, right?

 

[micdavis]

I use them in the W/C.

It's about what they are worth.

 

[Sporak]

I have thyem mostly in the boxes they came in...or in the case of pictures or framed items I attach them on the back in a plastic sleeve.

I have started to keep them together lately, when I find em.

 

[Vaderman]

Never much thought about them, they probably get tossed with the boxes, now that I think of it.

An "authentic" prop replica?
I mean, if it is something from an auction and I'm going to kid myself that it's an "investment" that I want to later sell, I suppose I'd keep that COA.

I guess the thing to do would be to photo reduce them to wallet size, laminate them and keep the small version in a wallet flip out photo holder to show off all my purchases at conventions, the way people show off pictures of their children...

 

[IFA]

Hi all,

I display all my COA's or LOA's beside or behind the replicas, in a plastic sleeve. I think that in most cases, these COA's are created by very inventive designers and are great work of art, like the replicas, so they have to be shown too, like the replicas they represent...That's my opinion.

FRED

 

[Lynn TXP 0369]

I don't...

Lynn

 

[Lost in Trek]

I display just one certificate. Primarily because it has a nice photo of the actor holding the prop. All other paperwork goes in a folder.

 

[DL 44 Blaster]

In the packing box which is put inside the original shipping box. Luckily I don't have too many so storage of the boxes isn't an issue

 

[Tatooine_Todd]

In a folder on the bookshelf.

 

[Treadwell]

The only ones I have are the ones that come with MR products, and I leave them inside the packaging (which I save for ease of future transport/shipping).

The only reason I keep them is if in case I ever resell any of my MR props, so that I still have the entire package. Otherwise I'd throw them out, as they have absolutely no meaning for me.

...especially the kind of COA's that people make on their own. The licensed stuff, okay, they're confirming what I have is licensed. But the fanmade ones? "This item is actual matter". That's about all the meaning they have.

 

[Apollo]

All of mine are in a Anvil briefcase that I no longer use.

 

[rmschneider104]

Mine are left with the display/shipping box. Up until now, I really hadn't give much thought on doing anything else with them. However, I like the binder idea.