A prop is often an object that existed more than once: doubles, later reconstructions, a piece from the prop store. The price depends on what you can document. In the overview Security for collectors you write the origin down and you do not invent it.

Storage

Knocks, light, fabric and metal according to the material, as in the texts on textile and on brass. A costume follows Costumes. You store it so the piece is not the decor by the door when the proof names a real price.

When someone comes

Visible on the wall, it is a story that guests pass on. The locked place and the folder are the protection. Without a folder, after a loss, "a sword from a film" is an anecdote.

The folder

Production, what the piece is supposed to be, who attests to it, proof, photo. A gap in the chain stays a gap.