# Securing film props: the origin is the price, the object is often a stand-in

> Secure props: document the origin, do not take every studio piece for the original, store shock-free.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/filmrequisiten-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

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](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) 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](/artikel/kostueme-sammlung-sichern). 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.


## Häufige Fragen

### Is every studio piece an original from the shot?

No. The papers say what you have. The rest you do not call original.

### On the wall?

Only what you want to show and can lose. The documented piece is stored.

### A costume with it?

Its own text, its own climate.