# Tresorrari: Volltext-Wissensbasis (107 Artikel, Stand 2026-11-12) # Securing action figures in the original packaging: the card is the price > Secure figures in original packaging: do not crease the card, avoid sun, expensive carded ones flat and dark, not in a basement stack. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/action-figures-ovp-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion On a figure in the original packaging, the card is often worth more than the plastic. A crease in the blister card is a different condition. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this sits between toy and paper. ## What gets ruined without a thief Sun bleaches the card. Damp ripples the cardboard and loosens the glue of the bubble. A stack in the basement presses the bottom card crooked. You store upright or flat with little weight on top, dark, dry, not against the exterior wall that sweats. ## When someone comes Boxes marked "Toys" are a grab for many offenders and a target for some when the brand on the box is readable. You take the few very expensive cards out of the big stack and put them in the place that fits the sum: a cabinet, if the price calls for it, otherwise on top of the stack, where no water stands, and not in the hall. ## The folder Maker, year, variant, whether the card is free of creases, receipt for the expensive ones. A photo of the front. Variants that differ only by a small imprint, you write down so that you can still tell them apart in a year. ## Häufige Fragen ### Stack or shelf? So that no weight rests on the card and no light bleaches the cardboard. ### Take the figure out of the packaging? Then it is a loose figure. The price of the original packaging is gone after that. ### Basement, yes or no? Only if it is dry and off the floor. A wet box ripples the cardboard without any burglary. --- # Securing fishing and hunting gear: the rod is long, the reel is small > Secure fishing and hunting gear: reels and small gear in the cabinet, rods shock-free, do not confuse weapons law with the rod. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/angel-jagdgeraet-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A collected reel is small and expensive, a rod is long and breaks at the door. Hunting gear that is a weapon follows weapons law and the text on the [firearms collection](/artikel/schusswaffen-sammlung-sichern), not this paragraph. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is about rods, reels, old baskets, knives only insofar as they are not a legal case. ## What gets ruined without a thief A rod in a tube that someone knocks over, rust on the reel, dry leather on the basket, moths in the felt hat. You store dry, rods so that the door does not swing into them, reels without the wet line on them for years. ## When someone comes The reel goes along in the drawer. It lies with the other small valuables when the price requires it, not in the open equipment shed. The list states maker and model. A knife you are unsure about, you clarify before you hang it on the wall "for the collection". ## The folder Reels one by one, rods one by one, receipt for the expensive ones, photo. The shed is not a certified safe, only a roof. ## Häufige Fragen ### Is a hunting weapon included here? No. It follows the gun cabinet guide and the authority's requirement. ### Reel in the certified safe? If the price requires it, yes. It is small. ### Rod behind the door? Then it breaks. Store it lengthwise, where nothing strikes it. --- # Securing animation cels: film that sticks and paint that migrates > Secure cels: do not stack without an interleaf, dark and cool, do not give the paint to the window. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/animationscels-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A cel is paint on a sheet of film. Stacked without an interleaf they stick together, and then the image is a lump. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it is a special case of paper and plastic at once. ## What breaks without a thief Heat, light, pressure, the wrong sleeve. You store them singly, dark, cool, and flat, with an interleaf recommended by someone who knows cels, not with the first clear film you grab. A sheet that outgasses takes the paint with it. ## When someone comes Small and light, once it is framed or in a folder. Famous scenes get recognized. You do not hang the most expensive cel in the hallway. It lies flat in the cabinet if the climate there does not get hot. A certified safe that heats up in a fire is a risk for the sheet. The document cabinet with a steady temperature is often the better place. You settle that on the piece, not as an article of faith. ## The folder Production, scene, whether the backing is original, dimensions, proof, photo. Backing and sheet are two lines when both share the price. ## Häufige Fragen ### Stack cels? Only with the right interleaf. Otherwise they stick. ### In the certified safe? Only if it is not permanently hot or outgassing. Film takes that worse than metal. ### A frame, yes? Briefly, for showing. For storage, flat and dark. --- # Securing ancient coins: patina is the value, cleaning is the damage > Secure ancient coins: do not clean the patina, note the provenance, clarify export and ownership before you buy. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/antike-muenzen-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An ancient coin carries its history in the surface. Scour it bright and you delete the price, and often the chance to tie it to a find spot. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits with the pieces where theft and the law stand side by side. ## The legal position first Many ancient coins are legal in the trade, with a provenance that can be stated. Some come from looted excavations, and you may not buy those in order to "save" them. Before you buy, you require a provenance that you write down: auction, dealer, year, lot number. Without that line, the coin in case of doubt becomes a problem, not a treasure. The authority and the cultural property protection law decide the individual case. This text does not replace that. ## Theft and decay In the house they go the way other coins go: album, tin, backpack. The big private robbery remains Coconut Grove, described with the [gold coins](/artikel/goldmuenzen-sammlung-sichern). Patina suffers from PVC, from damp, and from every attempt to clean. You store them dry, dark, in inert material, in the anchored cabinet, once the sum warrants it. ## What you write down Mint, denomination, metal, diameter, the provenance line, a photo of both sides with a scale. The photos and the invoices sit in the document cabinet. A coin without this folder is a memory after a burglary. ## Häufige Fragen ### May I clean an ancient coin? No, if the patina belongs to the piece. Cleaning is damage that no cabinet undoes. ### Do I need a provenance proof for every coin? For everything you buy from now on, one line: where from, when, which lot. Without the line, a later sale or the export becomes a dispute. ### Are ancient coins in the Radar? The reports say coins, without separating age. Your list has to record the age itself. --- # Securing antiques: export is its own question, the cellar its own damage > Securing antiques: document origin and age, clarify export before transport, do not leave the climate to the cellar. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/antiquitaeten-ausfuhr-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion "Antique" is not protection and not permission. Some pieces may be sold and exported, some need a permit, some should not go on the transporter at all. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you clarify that before you buy and before you set off. This text is not a customs guide. ## Storage By the material: wood like furniture, metal like silver or armor, paper like paper. The damp cellar is the slow damage for almost everything. You store dry and you write down what you have, with a photo and proof. ## The folder Object, material, age as far as documented, origin, proof, and one sentence on whether a permit for a transport was required or still has to be clarified. Archaeological objects have a sharper text: [Archaeology](/artikel/archaeologische-objekte-sichern). ## Häufige Fragen ### May I export every old piece? No. Clarify before the transport. This text does not decide the individual case. ### Cellar? Only dry. Damp is the damage without a thief. ### Is the word antique on the invoice enough? No. You need what describes the piece, and in tight cases the permit. --- # Securing archaeological objects: without provenance, the purchase is the problem > Archaeological objects: do not buy without documented provenance. Store only what you hold lawfully, and ask the authority if unsure. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/archaeologische-objekte-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An archaeological object without provenance often does not belong in trade. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is a warning text. It does not say how to obtain such pieces. ## What you do You do not buy what has no provenance. You do not dig where you are not allowed to. If you inherited something and you are unsure, you ask the competent authority before you sell it, post it, or take it across a border. Until then you store it dry, shock-free, and documented, without "cleaning" it, until someone with expertise has said something about it. Cleaning can destroy the evidence an authority needs. ## The folder What you know for certain, and the gaps as gaps. Photos. The correspondence with the authority you asked, in the document cabinet. ## Häufige Fragen ### Buy without provenance? No. ### Clean it so it looks better? No. You can destroy traces. Ask first. ### Heirloom uncertain? Ask the competent authority before you pass it on. --- # Securing wristwatches: the collection in the cabinet, the everyday piece off the wrist > Secure wristwatches: costly pieces in the anchored cabinet, papers beside them, the worn watch is not a badge of the collection. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/armbanduhren-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A wristwatch you wear on your wrist every day shows the street what might still be lying in the house. The collector pieces belong, after the evening, in the anchored certified safe. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) the watch sits with what is small and has a price at once. ## How it leaves the house In the local EinbruchsRadar up to August 2026 a watch stands in 217 cases with a loot list. Jewelry sits even higher on the same list. The second way is not a nighttime burglary: in London, robbery at the wrist is a situation picture of its own, and collectors leave the good watch at home. Jim Ratcliffe has said in public that he no longer wears one in the city. The documented house case with jewelry and watches is Kensington, December 2019, the house of Tamara Ecclestone, cleared out while she was in Lapland. The placing of the sums is in the overview. ## What time does to it Leather dries, steel takes on moisture, gaskets and luminous compound age. A cabinet keeps the watch from being carried off and can still ruin it if it sits damp for good or stays hot for a long time after a fire. You replace the silica gel before it is saturated. Watches with a leather strap do not lie for months in the dark damp. ## Where to put it Everyday piece and collection stay two decisions. What has a number, a certificate or a name lies in the cabinet whose grade matches the sum the insurer names to you in writing. You choose the spot so a guest does not see it on the first walk-through. Photos of the case back with the number stay with you and do not go online under your real name. ## The papers Guarantee, extract and invoice lie in the document cabinet, not in the watch box. Without these sheets the watch in a claim is a used piece, and the price becomes a dispute. You send the insurer an item list with purchase date and number before you set the level of the cabinet. ## Häufige Fragen ### Do a nightstand and a drawer suffice? For the watch you put on again tomorrow, yes. For pieces with a certificate and a price you want replaced, you need an anchored certified safe and the papers in a second place. ### What does EinbruchsRadar say about watches? In the local status up to August 2026 a watch appears in 217 cases with a loot list. These are apartment and house burglaries from police reports, not a complete statistic. ### May the good watch come along on a trip? The everyday watch, yes. The collection stays at home. What you take with you is the piece whose loss the policy does not cover. --- # Securing autographs and letters: the ink is the price, the light takes it away > Secure autographs: store the ink in the dark, prove authenticity with provenance, not in a sunny frame for good. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/autogramme-briefe-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An autograph is ink on a support: card, photo, letter, book page. The ink fades, and a frame in the hallway does that over years that feel comfortable. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), letters sit with the paper and with the provenance, because the name alone does not hold the price. ## What breaks without a thief Light, an acidic support, a felt-tip pen that bleeds through, moisture that frays the signature. You store in the dark. A signed photo you want to look at every day is a copy. The original stays in the folder. ## When someone comes A binder with "Autographs" on the spine is an instruction manual. The spine stays neutral. Really expensive letters sit in the document cabinet, with the provenance: from whom, when handed over, which expert report on authenticity, if one exists. A signature without this chain is a dispute on the market and, after a theft, an assertion. ## The folder Support, date, content in one sentence, authenticity note, receipt. A photo of the signature and of the whole sheet. Digital, outside the apartment. The insurance policy gets the lines with the price you can prove, not the price you wish for. ## Häufige Fragen ### Is a framed autograph safe? From handling, yes. From the light, no, if it hangs permanently. The original is stored in the dark. ### Is the famous name enough as proof? No. You need provenance or an authenticity opinion, otherwise the price after a loss is your word. ### Letters and cards together? Only if the list separates them. A letter with content is a different piece from a signature on a photo. --- # Securing aviation pieces: the badge is small, the propeller is a room > Secure aviation: treat small badges like orders, keep large parts stable, check the origin of military pieces. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/aviation-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A pilot's scarf and a propeller are not the same kind of securing. One is textile and a badge, the other an object that falls over. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you split the holdings before you buy a cabinet. ## Small Badges, watches, logbooks. The watch follows the text on [wristwatches](/artikel/armbanduhren-sammlung-sichern), the badge the one on [orders](/artikel/orden-medaillen-sichern), the logbook follows paper: dark, dry, in the document cabinet if it is rare. Military marks you are unsure about, you clarify before you show them. ## Large Propellers, instrument panels, a seat. Free of knocks, dry, not in the damp shed, labeled on the list so an instrument does not lie "somewhere." An instrument with glass follows the rule for [scientific instruments](/artikel/wissenschaftliche-instrumente-sichern): do not take it apart yourself. ## The folder Every small piece one line, the large parts with measurements and a photo. Origin, as far as you can document it. It is not invented. ## Häufige Fragen ### Everything in one room? No. Paper and badges dry and locked away, the large part stable and not in the wet. ### Logbook on the shelf? If it is rare, into the document cabinet. Light and damp eat paper. ### Unscrew the instrument? No. Glass and scale suffer, and the adjustment is a different one afterward. --- # Securing banknotes: paper, light and the temptation to see them as money > Secure banknotes: store them dark and flat, do not fold them, keep receipts apart, the safe against fire and theft. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/banknoten-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A collector note is paper with a price that has nothing to do with the face value printed on it. Folded, bleached, or in a clear PVC sleeve, it is a different note. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) paper money sits with what light and acid finish slowly and a burglary finishes fast. ## What breaks without a thief Light bleaches. Acid from cheap albums eats. PVC turns sticky. You store flat, in the dark, in sleeves made for paper money, not in the brochure sleeve from the stationery shop. A note you crease to put in a wallet is no longer a collector note. ## When someone comes An album on the shelf is under an arm in a minute. In the radar something like this is rarely called a banknote. It is called cash, and cash is the most common item of all. Your list still has to say, note by note, what was not money fit for circulation, or else the policy replaces the face value and not the collector price. ## The protection Valuable notes go into the fire-resistant document cabinet or into the certified safe, depending on what the insurer requires for paper and for the sum. Everyday cash and the collection do not sit in the same envelope. A copy of the rarest notes, front and back, sits digitally outside the home. ## The folder Pick number or catalogue number, condition, purchase receipt. One sentence on which cancellation or which stamp is on it. Without this line you argue over a piece of paper. ## Häufige Fragen ### Is a banknote in the certified safe protected from fading? From light, yes, as long as it lies in the dark. From acid, only if the sleeve is the right one. From theft, only if the safe matches the job. ### Does the radar count notes as a collection? The reports usually say cash. You have to have documented the collector price yourself. ### May I pick the note up? By the edge, cleanly, and do not fold it. The condition is the price. --- # Securing Barbie and dolls: the dress fades, the box presses > Securing dolls: store dark, keep the box, keep fabric out of the sun, list rare editions one by one. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/barbie-puppen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A doll in the original box is cardboard, color, and often a dress that fades. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits with textile and cardboard at once. ## What time does Sun, damp, a rubber band around the dress, a cellar that warps. You store dark and dry. You do not handle the dress with damp hands when the fabric is the price. A doll you take out of the box is another line after that. ## When someone comes Bulky, rarely the first target. The one rare edition with proof does not sit on the open children's shelf by the door. The list separates play dolls and collector pieces, otherwise you insure a children's room. ## The folder Edition, year, with box or without, condition of the dress, proof, photo. ## Häufige Fragen ### Take it out of the box? Only if you let it be played with. As a collector piece it stays in, the box uncrushed. ### By the window? No. Color and fabric fade. ### Insure every doll? Only the ones you keep as a collection with proof. The rest is household contents. --- # Securing amber: it dries, it burns, it is light > Securing amber: not by the heater, not in full sun, document inclusions, store it shock-free. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/bernstein-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Amber is light, flammable, and dries out by the heater until the surface cracks. An inclusion is the price and, at the same time, what you capture in the photo before a crack makes it unreadable. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits with the small, sensitive pieces. ## Storage Cool, dark, not next to the heater, shock-free, not in a box that becomes an oven in summer. You do not polish over an inclusion yourself. ## When someone comes Light and small. It does not lie in the jewelry dish by the door if the inclusion has a price. List: weight roughly, whether an inclusion is visible, proof, photo. The cabinet, once the sum requires it, but not a hot box. ## Häufige Fragen ### Next to the heater? No. The surface cracks. ### Polish it yourself? Not over an inclusion. You make it illegible. ### Store it with the jewelry? Only if the place stays cool and the list keeps it separate. --- # Securing edged weapons: the sabre is often not a gun-cabinet case, and sometimes a legal case > Secure edged weapons: clarify the law, blade out of the damp corner, provenance apart. The Marengo sabre shows what a price can be. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/blankwaffen-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A sabre, a smallsword, a knife with a history: in Germany not every piece is a firearm, and not every piece is free to keep. The weapons authority and the weapons law say what may lie with you. This text does not replace that. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you secure what you are allowed to own, against rust, knocks, and being carried off. ## What a price can be The Marengo sabre realized 4.8 million euros at Osenat in 2007 and, as a Monument historique, may not leave France. The [six-piece garniture by Boutet](/artikel/napoleon-boutet-garnitur) is a different lot. Your sabre is neither of the two, unless the papers say so. The papers are the difference. ## What time does to it Damp rusts the blade, a leather scabbard grows mold, a loose hilt wrap comes undone. You store it dry, the blade placed so that nobody walks into it in the hallway. Very valuable pieces sit locked away, not over the sofa as decor, if you want the price replaced. ## The folder Type, length, provenance, proof, photo of blade and hilt. The legal classification as a sentence in your records, after you have clarified it. The guide to the [gun cabinet](/artikel/waffenschrank-klasse-0-1) applies once the piece is a firearm or the authority requires a cabinet. ## Häufige Fragen ### Does a sabre need a gun cabinet? The classification of the piece and the authority say that, not this text. Until then: dry, locked away, papers separate. ### What is the Marengo sabre? A Boutet sabre, auctioned at Osenat in 2007 for 4.8 million euros, Monument historique, stays in France. The profile on it sits with the weapons texts. ### Oil the blade? Only so that you do not smear marks and etching, and do not leave it lying in the damp corner. --- # Securing sealed board games: the shrink wrap is the condition > Secure board games: do not open the wrap, keep the box dry and uncrushed, list rare editions one by one. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/brettspiele-versiegelt-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A sealed game is a box with shrink wrap. Opened, it is a game night. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) the same rule applies as with LEGO: the condition of the wrap is the price. ## Storage Dry, dark, little pressure, not on a damp floor. Do not lift the wrap "just to check". ## If someone comes A shelf full of games is slow. A small row of rare, sealed editions is one box. It does not stand by the door. It does not come up in the radar. The list names the rare numbers with proof. ## The folder Title, year, language, sealed or open, proof, photo of the wrap. ## Häufige Fragen ### Open it once and stick it shut again? Then it is open. The list says so. ### A cellar? Only if it is dry. ### Every game in the certified safe? No. The rare sealed edition, if the sum requires it. --- # Securing stamps: gum, light, and an album that slips under the arm too fast > Secure stamps: albums dark and dry, do not reglue a hinge, expensive sheets in the document safe. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/briefmarken-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A stamp is small, the sheet is a folder, and neither tolerates a south window. The gum on the back sticks to the neighboring side in the damp, and then the price is gone without anyone having forced the door. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), stamps belong with paper. ## What breaks without a thief Light bleaches the colors that make the premium in the catalog. Damp cockles the paper and marries the gum to the pocket. Rusty clips and acidic pre-war adhesives migrate into the piece. You handle it by the edge, with tweezers that do not press a groove, and you do not glue an old hinge back on so that it looks "neat". ## When someone comes Albums on the shelf are taken in one pass. Stamped bulk is often worthless to the offender and, for you, the work of years. The few sheets with a real price do not lie on the same meter of shelving. They lie in the document safe, the albums of the everyday collection in a second, inconspicuous place. ## The folder Michel or catalog number, cancelled or mint, whether hinged, purchase receipt for the expensive items. A photo of the sheet. You describe the bulk of the collection as a holding with its main areas, the top pieces line by line. ## Häufige Fragen ### Store mint and cancelled the same way? Dark and dry for both. Mint also suffers at the gum, so no damp tin and no overstuffed pocket. ### Is an album in the living room safe? It is visible and light. The top pieces belong in the document safe. ### May I detach a stamp and stick it on again? That changes the piece. The condition then no longer stands as it did at purchase. --- # Securing books and first editions: the dust jacket is a piece of its own > Secure first editions: do not lose the jacket, store upright and dry, keep the signature in the dark. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/buecher-erstausgaben-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion On a first edition the price often sits in the dust jacket, in the imprint, and in a signature, not in the reading. A jacket with a tear is a different price. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) books sit with the paper. ## What breaks without a thief Light on the signature, damp, mold, a shelf that warps the boards, sun at the window spot. You store them upright, not in a packed row that presses the text block, dry, dark. You take the jacket by the edges and you do not lay it loose on the pile. ## When someone comes Nobody takes a whole shelf in five minutes. The ten books with a name and a jacket do, if they stand at eye level. Those ten do not stand there. They stand inconspicuously, or they lie, when the price calls for it, in a locked cabinet, jacket protected, proof elsewhere. ## The folder Author, title, year, printing or edition, condition of the jacket, signature yes or no, proof. A photo of the imprint, the jacket, and the signature. The policy lists the expensive volumes one by one. ## Häufige Fragen ### Take the jacket off to read? If you keep the edition as a collector's piece, you read another copy. The jacket stays intact. ### Signed books in the light? No. Ink fades. The permanent place is dark. ### Do ten lines cover a hundred books? For the holding, yes. For the expensive volumes, no. Those get a line of their own. --- # Securing champagne: pressure in the bottle, stillness on the shelf > Secure champagne: store cool, dark, and still, avoid shock, note vintage and fill level. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/champagner-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Champagne is wine with pressure. Heat and shaking are its enemies, a fall is concrete damage and a concrete cleanup. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits with wine, with more respect for shock. ## What gets ruined without a thief Heat, light, a shelf on the stairs that trembles at every step. You store cool, dark, still. Whether it lies or stands follows what applies to this bottle and its closure. You write it in the list instead of guessing it anew each time. You keep the fill level in the photo. ## When someone comes The same door as for the rest of the cellar. The documented vintages do not stand in the kitchen fridge, the one the first glance finds. They stand in the locked, cool room. The large documented wine losses sit in storage and hospitality, described in the [wine collection](/artikel/weinsammlung-sichern). ## The folder House, year, site, bottle count, receipt. A bottle you open for an occasion, you cross off the same day. ## Häufige Fragen ### Champagne next to the red? Only if temperature and stillness are right for both. You take pressure and shock more seriously than with still wine. ### In the fridge for guests? That is the house bar. The collection stands elsewhere. ### Update the list after the party? The same day. Otherwise you insure an empty slot. --- # Securing cipher machines: the device, the rotors, the legal gray area > Securing cipher machines: list rotors as separate parts, store dry, before buying check whether you may own the device. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/chiffriermaschinen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A cipher machine is metal, rotors, and a history that interests states. Whether you may own a particular device, you settle before the purchase. This text is not a way to obtain one. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it is about storing what you lawfully have. ## Storage Dry, rotors not loose in a drawer where they disappear and rust. Each rotor one line. You do not fiddle "just for a moment" with a device whose wiring is the price, without knowing what you are changing. ## When someone comes Heavy, but the rotors are small. They stay in the device or in the locked box, not beside it. Proof and photos of the numbers in the document safe. ## Häufige Fragen ### May I buy every machine like this? You settle that beforehand. This text only says how you store a lawful piece. ### Rotors separately? Yes, in the list. A missing rotor is a different device. ### Try it out? Not on the wiring you cannot reset. --- # Securing cognac and spirits: the old bottle stands in the dark > Secure cognac: upright and dark, track the fill level, keep the home bar apart from the collection. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/cognac-spirituosen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Cognac and the other old spirits follow the whisky rule: upright, dark, know the fill level. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it is the same physics as [Whisky](/artikel/whisky-sammlung-sichern), with different labels. ## What gets ruined without a thief Light and heat, a leaking capsule, a cellar that gets hot in summer. You store upright and you write the fill level down. A bottle you open for a meal leaves the collection list. ## When someone comes The bar in the living room is visible. The bottles with a receipt and a price stand somewhere else, locked, without a strip of the vintages on the door. In the Radar this is not a word of its own. ## The folder House, designation, age or bottling, fill level, open or closed, receipt. Photo of the label and the shoulder. ## Häufige Fragen ### Put it next to the whisky? Yes, if both stand upright, dark, and cool. On the list they stay two stocks. ### Opened bottle, still collection? Only if you keep it that way and the fill level is right. What has been drunk is less. ### Certified safe? A climate cabinet, maybe. A hot document safe, no. --- # Securing original comic drawings: a sheet that exists only once > Secure original drawings: out of the light, flat, not in the stack of issues. Store provenance and a photo of the signature apart. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/comic-originalzeichnungen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An original drawing is the sheet the print came from, or the sheet that was never printed. It exists once. A crease is forever. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), it sits with drawing and paper, not with the issues, even if it comes from the same world. ## What breaks without a thief Light, acid from the backing board, adhesive tape, a folder that is too tight, moisture that makes the ink run. You store it flat, in a mat of acid-free board, in the dark. Framed on the south wall, it is a display, not storage. Behind glass, the climate can build up if the back is the wrong cardboard. ## When someone comes A sheet in a folder is light and looks like paper. Framed on the wall, it is visible. You do not hang the most expensive sheet in the hallway. It lies flat in the document cabinet, or in a folder that does not stand by the door. You photograph the signature once, sharply. The photo is kept somewhere else. ## The folder Artist, year, technique, dimensions, where the sheet comes from, receipt. One sentence on whether it is a preliminary drawing, a finished drawing, or a later sheet. This distinction is the price. Without it you have "a drawing". ## Häufige Fragen ### May the drawing hang on the wall? Briefly, and without direct sun, with an acid-free mat. The lasting place for the expensive sheet is the folder in the cabinet. ### Does it sit with the issues? No. Issues press, boxes gather dust, and the sheet needs a surface of its own. ### What is the provenance line? From whom you have the sheet, when, and with which receipt. A unique piece without this line can barely be described after a loss. --- # Securing comics: the spine breaks before the burglar arrives > Secure comics: upright, dry, no direct light. Expensive issues in sturdy sleeves and on the list with the number. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/comics-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A comic is an issue with a spine that breaks as soon as you press it open, and with color that shifts in the light. The price of an early number sits in that untouched state. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), comics sit with paper, the few expensive issues also with small, liquid value. ## What breaks without a thief Acid from old paper, adhesive remains from price stickers, a rubber band around a stack, cellar damp, attic heat. You store them upright, in sleeves made for issues, dark and dry. An issue you open flat "carefully" to read the page is a read issue afterward. ## When someone comes Boxes are heavy and uninteresting to many offenders. A single issue in a rigid sleeve with a visible grade is the opposite: small and with a price. These issues lie in the safe, not on the stack by the door. You secure long boxes in the cellar against water from below. A pallet is often enough against a puddle. ## The folder Publisher, number, year, condition in your words plus the grade, if a firm has graded the issue. Receipt for the expensive numbers. A photo of the cover and of the first page, so that a dispute about "the same issue" has a picture. ## Häufige Fragen ### Do comics lie better flat? Upright, so the spine does not bear a stack. Very large formats flat, few on top of each other. ### Is a box in the cellar enough? Against curious guests, often yes. Against water, only with a gap to the floor. Against theft of the expensive numbers, no. ### Is the grade on the sleeve enough as proof? It helps. The purchase receipt and your photo stay necessary beside it. --- # Securing couture and historic textiles: moth, light and the fold that breaks > Secure textiles: dark, breathing, no moth product directly on the fiber, do not forget heavy pieces on hangers. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/couture-textilien-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A dress, an embroidered cloth, a uniform of fabric: light eats the color, moths eat the yarn, a thin hanger cuts the shoulder in two within a year. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) textile is a matter of climate, not a small compartment in a certified safe. ## What gets ruined without a thief Light, dust, acid from cheap hangers and from cardboard, moths, a basement that smells musty. You store in the dark, in covers that breathe, flat when the piece is heavy, on a rail only when the shoulder can take that over time. Moth product does not go directly on the fiber. You check twice a year whether something is eating. ## When someone comes Bulky, of no interest to many offenders, irreplaceable for you. The cabinet with the couture is locked, not the first door in the hall, and it is not a damp steel safe. Furs are a text of their own, because moth and the law sit even tighter there: [Furs](/artikel/pelze-sammlung-sichern). ## The folder What it is, size, material, damage already there, provenance, receipt. A photo from the front and of the inside with the label. The policy, one by one, when the price calls for it. ## Häufige Fragen ### Hanger or flat? Heavy and old pieces flat. A thin hanger cuts the shoulder. ### Plastic cover? Only if it breathes and does not stick. Otherwise it goes musty and the plasticizer migrates into the cloth. ### Certified safe? Rarely. The locked, dry, dark cabinet is the place. --- # Securing designer lamps: cable, shade, and the one lamp everyone knows > Secure lamps: original shade out of the sun, wiring done properly, small lamps not by the door. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/designerleuchten-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A lamp is glass, metal, and a cable. The shade fades or splinters, the cable becomes a question for the home as soon as you connect it "quickly". In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is an object in the room. ## What breaks without a thief Sun on the shade, heat from the wrong bulb inside, a shade you take hold of at the thin spot. You use the bulbs the piece can take. You hang nothing on the cable. ## When someone comes Small table lamps of a known shape get taken. They do not stand on the sideboard in the hall. Large pendant lamps stay and are often crooked afterward. The door and the list secure them. The invoice sits in the document cabinet. ## The folder Design, manufacturer, whether the shade is original, proof, photo. Later wiring is noted as later. ## Häufige Fragen ### Keep using the old line? Only if someone allowed to do electrical installation clears it for this place. A collector's piece is not a free pass for a brittle line. ### Shade in the sun? No. Color and plastic suffer. ### Small lamp in a certified safe? If it fits and the price calls for it, yes. Otherwise away from the door. --- # Securing design furniture: the piece is the room, the label is the proof > Secure design furniture: photograph the label, not in the wet cellar, the door secures the room, not a small safe. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/designmoebel-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A chair, a table, a shelf from a known workshop is too big for any certified safe and easy to confuse with "old furniture" once the label is missing. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you secure the room and the origin, not a compartment. ## What gets ruined without a thief Sun bleaches leather and wood, a cellar warps the construction, a wet cloth on the sensitive covering makes rings. You do not put the original leather at the south window. You do not screw anything on "to fit" without having the condition in a photo first. ## When someone comes Furniture rarely goes along in the short night, unless it is small, signed, and stands by the door. Small signed pieces do not stand there. The apartment door, the alarm system, and the list are the protection. If you run a whole interior as a collection, you tell the policy piece by piece, otherwise it is household contents. ## The folder Design, maker, year, dimensions, label as a photo, receipt, damage. A later covering is listed as later in the list. ## Häufige Fragen ### Take the label off? No. Photograph it and leave it on. It is the proof. ### Cellar as storage? Only if dry. Damp warps wood and loosens glue. ### A certified safe for the label? The invoice and the photo of the label belong in the document cabinet. The furniture stays in the room. --- # Securing ivory and CITES: the paper decides, not the age you see on it > Secure ivory: check species protection, do not trade without papers, store what you lawfully have shock-free and dark. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/elfenbein-cites-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Ivory and other material from protected species is no longer a normal collecting field. Whether an old piece has an exception is on the papers. The age you see on it is not enough. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is a warning text, not a market. ## What you do You do not buy and you do not sell without knowing the papers and the rule. You do not take it across a border because it is "only old". If you own something and you are unsure, you ask the competent authority. Until then it stays shock-free, dark, documented, the papers in the document cabinet, the piece not in the open display case as an invitation to trade. ## Netsuke and similar pieces Small carved pieces also follow the text on [Netsuke](/artikel/netsuke-sammlung-sichern): first determine the material, then store. ## Häufige Fragen ### Old enough, so allowed? No. The papers and the rule decide, not your impression of the age. ### Sell without papers? No. Ask the competent authority first. ### Into the display case? Not as an offer. Store it documented until the classification is clear. --- # Securing Fabergé and enamel boxes: the surface cracks, the name attracts > Secure enamel boxes: shock-free and dark, check mark and contents apart, do not put the report in the box. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/faberge-emaildosen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An enamel box is a hard shell with a glaze that cracks on a knock. The name on the mark in the base makes the crack expensive. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), this is a small piece that belongs in the cabinet, and there it must not knock loose against other metal parts. ## How it leaves Small, known, light. A display case with "Russian enamel" at eye level is a shop window. You show it to the people you have invited, and you store it in the cabinet. The mark and the expert report do not sit in the box. Whoever takes the box and leaves the paper has the piece. Whoever takes the paper and leaves the box has your proof. Both in one place is the worse of the two options. The box in the cabinet, the paper in the document cabinet. ## What time does to it Enamel does not tolerate a hard knock or a wild temperature. Moisture attacks metal mounts. You do not polish over the glaze. A soft, acid-free nest, one box per compartment, nothing heavy on top. ## The papers The master's mark in a sharp photo, the dimensions, one sentence on cracks that are already there, the receipt, the expert report. An existing crack that you keep quiet becomes a dispute after a burglary, over whether it is new. ## Häufige Fragen ### Polish, or leave it? Leave it. Rubbing over enamel makes scratches that no expert report takes back. ### Does the expert report sit in the box? No. Box and paper in two places. ### Is every enamel box a Fabergé? No. The mark in the base and the expert report say what it is. The name on your list follows the paper, not the wish. --- # Securing coloured diamonds: the price sits in the colour, the papers prove it > Secure coloured diamonds: store the lab report apart from the stone, keep the colour in the dark, insure the sum on its own. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/farbdiamanten-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion With a coloured diamond, the colour sets the price, and the colour is on the lab report, not in the viewer's eye after ten years. The stone itself is small enough for any pocket. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is a case for the safe plus a folder that lies somewhere else. ## How it leaves It takes the same path as jewellery: a known drawer, a short stay, no interest in the furniture. A coloured stone without a report is harder to sell on the grey market at the price you paid. That does not protect you from the loss. It only explains why the folder is worth more to you than to the thief. ## What time does to it Strong light and heat are the slow damage for colour. You store it in the dark and at a stable temperature. A display case in a south window is the wrong stage. In the safe the stone sits in a material that does not outgas. ## Where it goes An anchored certified safe, an item list with the lab number, insurance on its own, once the stone breaks the flat limit. You do not name the class of the safe from your gut. You name the sum, the insurer names the grade. ## The papers The original report stays in the document cabinet. A copy is enough for the watchmaker or the setter. The original does not go along to the workshop as long as a copy will do. A photo of stone and report in one image, filed, not posted. ## Häufige Fragen ### Does every coloured diamond go on the policy on its own? Once it falls outside the flat limit for valuables, yes. The limit is in the insurance guide, your report sets the sum. ### May I show the stone in the display case? At home, briefly, in front of people you know. Permanently towards the street is an invitation. The place you store it stays the safe. ### What if the report is lost? The stone is still there, the price becomes an appraisal dispute. That is why the report does not sit with the stone. --- # Securing lighters: petrol out, do not stack a fire source in the certified safe > Secure lighters: store them empty, do not keep petrol and gas in the safe, expensive pieces with a receipt on the list. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/feuerzeuge-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A collector's lighter is often brass, enamel, or gold, and it is built to make a flame. It belongs in a safe full of paper only when empty. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), this is a small piece with an extra fire point that watches do not have. ## How it leaves A bowl on the table, a drawer in the secretary. Lighters are light and look like junk until the one Dunhill piece, or a stone-set case, lies among them. That one does not lie in the bowl. It lies in the safe, the everyday stock may stay visible. ## What time and the fuel do Evaporated petrol attacks the lacquer and smells into the tin. Gas lighters with residual pressure do not belong in a tight, warm box next to documents. You store them empty, wick dry, flint placed so that it does not press on the enamel. Enamel chips on a knock. One layer of soft, acid-free material, not newspaper. ## The papers Make, model, whether original case, receipt for the expensive pieces. A photo of the engraving. You do not buy petrol and gas as a reserve into the same safe. The reserve is a hazardous substance and lives elsewhere, cool and closed, according to what the can says. ## Häufige Fragen ### May a fueled lighter go into the certified safe? No. Store it empty. Fuel next to paper and in a tight box is a fire subject, not a collecting subject. ### Are all lighters a case for the safe? Only those with a receipt and a price you want replaced. The rest is a bowl and a different risk. ### What about the original case? It belongs with the piece and on the list. It is not a safe of its own. --- # Securing film stock: nitrate does not belong in the home next to the heater > Secure film: identify the stock, store nitrate apart and professionally, acetate cool, copies not only in the same room. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/filmmaterial-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Old film is not all the same. Nitrate burns differently from acetate, and acetate breaks down into a smell of vinegar. Neither belongs in a box in the attic, "until someone looks". In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), this is a holding in which the safety of the home and that of the piece are the same subject. ## What breaks without a thief Heat, damp, the wrong can, an attic in August. Acetate that smells of vinegar infects the neighboring film. You separate what smells. You identify nitrate before you store it. If it is nitrate, you ask a place that accepts film stock whether it may stay in the home or must go into specialist storage. This text is not a license to stack nitrate next to the heater. ## When someone comes Film cans are heavy and look like clutter. The damage from tipping and from fire is greater than resale. The locked, cool place and the list are the protection. A digital viewing copy lies outside the home, the original not only on the one shelf. ## The folder Format, base in your words after identification, title, length, smell or condition, origin. What you cannot identify stays separate until someone can. ## Häufige Fragen ### Does the can smell of vinegar? Then the acetate is breaking down. Away from the rest of the film, cool, and ask someone who knows the material. ### Is every old film nitrate? No. Identify, do not guess. Nitrate is a fire subject for the whole home. ### Is a file enough? As a viewing copy, yes. The original remains its own piece in a cool place. --- # Securing film posters: folded is one condition, ironing it flat later is another > Secure film posters: do not iron out the fold, store dark and flat or in the original fold, name the format. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/filmplakate-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A film poster is large paper. Once folded, the fold sometimes belongs to the piece, the way it came from cinema advertising. If you iron it, you make a new condition, and often a tear. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this sits with the large paper formats. ## What breaks without a thief Light, adhesive tape, a roll that gives its color off to the roll next to it, damp in the cellar. You store dark and dry, flat in a portfolio larger than the sheet, or in the folded state the piece had, without a new crease. Roll only if the color can take it and nothing lies on top. ## When someone comes A roll under the arm is light. Expensive posters do not lie open in the study by the door. They lie in the large portfolio in an unobtrusive place, and the very expensive ones also so that water from the floor cannot reach them. ## The folder Film, country, format, folded or unfolded, condition of the corners, proof. A photo of the entire surface. The policy needs the format, or else "a poster" is everything and nothing. ## Häufige Fragen ### Iron the poster? No. The fold is often the condition. Ironing tears color and paper. ### Roll or portfolio? Portfolio, flat, if you have the room. Do not weigh rolls down and do not put them in the sun. ### Cellar? Only if dry, and not directly on the floor. --- # 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. --- # Securing pinball, jukebox and arcade: heavy, loud, and the back panel open > Secure the machines: keep them dry, the back is not an open cash box, rarity on the list, not in a damp shed. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/flipper-jukebox-arcade-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A pinball machine or a jukebox is furniture with electronics, and often with a cash box that someone assumes is full. Heavy, but on casters surprisingly easy to move. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is a room object with a second risk: the contents the offender assumes. ## What breaks without a thief Damp, a shed that condenses in winter, a power supply that runs warm and sits on dust, glass that cracks when the machine rolls crooked. You store dry and level, and you leave no coins in the cash box as an invitation. ## When someone comes Casters are the point. A machine in an open carport can be wheeled away. In the home it stands so that you cannot roll it to the door in one go. The door itself is the lock. The policy knows model and number. Small boards and rare trim on the machine, such as a replaced front-glass set that has a price, are extra lines in the list. ## The folder Maker, model, serial number, proof, whether original or rebuilt. Photo of the lettering on the back panel. ## Häufige Fragen ### Leave the coins in? No. A cash box full of small change turns a collector's piece into a supposed cash box. ### In a damp shed? Then the electronics corrode. Keep it dry. ### On casters by the door? Then the path is short. Further in, door shut. --- # Securing fossils: the piece breaks, the find spot is a legal question > Securing fossils: store shock-free, note the origin, do not dress up a find or purchase with an invented quarry site. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/fossilien-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A fossil breaks along an old seam. The find spot is often the price and sometimes a legal question, because not every ground allows removal. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you write down where you got the piece from, and you store it shock-free. ## The boundary What you may find yourself, and what may enter trade, depends on the place and the piece. You clarify that before collecting in the field and before a purchase. This text is the storage, not the excavation permit. ## Storage and theft Shock-free, label not on the sensitive face, heavy slabs at the bottom. Small aesthetic pieces go along in a drawer. They sit with the other small values when the price calls for it. The folder: type in your words, find spot as far as documented, measurements, proof, photo. ## Häufige Fragen ### Glue it yourself when it breaks? Only if you know what you are doing. A bad glue join is new damage. Document first. ### Find spot unknown? Then that is what the list says. Do not fill it in because it sounds better. ### Slab on the wall? Shock-free, and not where a door strikes it. --- # Securing photographs: print, negative and file are three pieces > Secure photographs: prints dark and cool, negatives apart, files not only on one computer in the same home. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/fotografien-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A print, a negative, and a digital file are three things with three kinds of damage. The print fades. You scratch the negative with a wrong grip. The file dies with the hard drive that sits in the same fire. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) photography is paper plus a copy that lives somewhere else. ## What breaks without a thief Light, acidic albums, fingers on the emulsion, damp that sticks prints together. You store dark and cool, in sleeves meant for photo paper. You do not peel old magnetic albums off by force. You get advice before the emulsion goes with the adhesive. ## When someone comes Albums are light. The larger quiet damage is the single drive. You keep a copy of the digital holdings outside the home, and the expensive vintage prints do not lie on the shelf under the window. They lie flat, and the invoice for them in the document cabinet. ## The folder Photographer, year, edition, dimensions, whether an original print or a later print, proof. Negative and print as two lines when both are there. The digital file with a second place. ## Häufige Fragen ### Is the file the backup of the print? It is another version. The vintage print stays a piece of its own, with its own price. ### Take a magnetic album apart? Not with a yank. The emulsion can come away with it. Ask someone who knows paper first. ### Where does the second copy lie? Outside the home, or one fire finishes both. --- # Securing fountain pens: ink dries in, nib and body stay separable > Secure fountain pens: store dry and without ink, keep papers and boxes, put the expensive pieces in the cabinet. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/fuellfederhalter-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A fountain pen is a small mechanical piece. The nib is often the price, the body is what you see. Dried-in ink eats into the system, and a lost original box turns a documented pen into a used pen. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), it sits with the small things that belong in a cabinet once the price warrants it. ## How it walks off A tray on the desk is an invitation, and so is a drawer. Pens are light and look everyday, until someone knows the brand. You do not leave the whole collection visible when tradespeople or guests walk through the room. The pieces with a name and a proof sit in the anchored cabinet. ## What time does to it Ink dries in, hard rubber discolors in the light, celluloid can age and, in a bad case, outgas. You store them cleaned, without ink, in the dark, not in an airtight tin together with the one pen that already smells. You set that one aside and ask someone who knows celluloid, before it contaminates the others. ## The papers Box, guarantee, invoice, a photo of the nib with the engraving. The box stays with the pen, the invoice somewhere else. The list has brand, model, nib size, and the year of purchase. ## Häufige Fragen ### Store with ink, or empty? Empty and cleaned, if the pen is to lie for months. Dried-in ink is damage to the piece. ### Is celluloid dangerous for the other pens? If it breaks down and smells, yes. You separate that pen from the rest. ### Is the original box enough as a safe? No. It is packaging and proof, not protection against being carried off. --- # Securing garden bronzes: the scrap price has already eaten a Moore figure > Secure garden bronzes: anchor them, do not leave them easy to lift as scrap. Henry Moore's Reclining Figure was stolen in 2005 and melted down. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/gartenbronzen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion In December 2005, Henry Moore's "Reclining Figure" disappeared from the foundation grounds in Much Hadham. 2.1 tonnes, in the reports around 3 million pounds. The police assume the bronze was melted down and sold as scrap for about 1,500 pounds. The grounds belong to the foundation, it is not a living room. Size alone does not protect when the metal has a scrap price. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), the garden bronze is the case in which the certified safe is too small and anchoring is the subject. ## What you do outside Fix heavy pieces so they do not move onto a vehicle in one night. Light, a view from the street, a camera on the plinth if you actually review it and do not merely set it up. A small figure in an open front garden is an invitation. It belongs indoors, or in a place that cannot be detached from the sidewalk. ## What time does to it Patina is often part of it. You do not scrub it to a shine. You check the fixing, because a loose plinth helps the thief and the storm. ## The folder Artist, measurements, weight roughly, photo, fixing, receipt, insurance policy as a named item. A melted-down bronze does not come back. The list is what remains. ## Häufige Fragen ### Does the weight help? Against the casual thief, yes. Against someone with a vehicle and time, no. The Moore figure weighed 2.1 tonnes. ### Why melt it down? Because the scrap price is money at once and the artwork is hard to sell without papers. About 1,500 pounds against a reported value around 3 million. ### Small figure in the bed? Indoors, or fixed so it does not leave as someone walks past. --- # Securing violins and bows: the bow is often the more expensive piece > Secure violins: in the case, not on the chair, bow loosened, climate stable, papers kept apart. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/geigen-boegen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A violin lies in the case, or it lies on the chair, and the chair is the place where it falls or gets taken. The bow next to it is often more expensive than the instrument you are thinking of. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is small enough for a bag and sensitive enough for the climate. ## What breaks without a thief Dryness splits the top and the back. A bow that lies tightened in the case loses its tension and can warp the stick. You loosen it. You do not store the case by the heating, and not in a cold car overnight. You photograph the stamp inside once. ## When someone comes The case has a handle. It does not stand by the door, and not in an open car. Very expensive instruments are insured by name. The papers do not lie in the case compartment together with the bow. A second description, measurements and photos, lies outside the home. ## The folder Violin and bow as two lines. Maker, stamp, proof, last work. A crack that is already there is in the photo. ## Häufige Fragen ### Store the bow tightened? No. Loosened, or the stick suffers. ### Case by the door? No. The handle is the loot. ### Papers in the violin case? A copy, maybe. The original elsewhere, or both go. --- # Securing paintings: light and climate first, the certified safe is usually too small > Secure paintings: store dark and stable, inventory and condition photo. The famous theft sits in the museum. You secure a home differently. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/gemaelde-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A painting hangs on the wall or lies flat in storage. It rarely fits in a small certified safe, and a tight steel box is often too dry for canvas and too hot in a fire. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), this is the case where the room is the protection and the folder holds the price. ## What breaks without a thief Direct light bleaches. Damp warps, dryness cracks. A heater under the frame works every winter. You do not hang the expensive sheet above the heater, and not in the south window. You take condition photos once, in good light: the front, and details of damage that is already there. ## When someone comes The big documented picture thefts sit in museums. For the home, what applies is this: visible on the wall toward the street, and the door that an ordinary burglary opens. An alarm, unobtrusive hanging, no inventory on the web. What is small enough for a portfolio can go in the fire-resistant cabinet, if the climate there is right. The large canvas stays in place, and the policy knows it individually. ## The folder Artist, title, dimensions, technique, provenance, proof, condition photo. Insurance as a named item, not as "art in the household contents". The guide on insurance says where the flat sum ends. ## Häufige Fragen ### Does a painting belong in the certified safe? Only if it fits and the climate in the box does not harm the paint. You secure the large canvas in place: light, door, alarm, policy. ### Do paintings show up in the Radar? In the local picture up to August 2026, practically not. The reports name jewelry, watches, cash. ### Is a phone photo enough? As a condition photo, yes: sharp, and from both sides of the frame, plus the provenance in the list. --- # Securing guitars: neck, humidity, and the stand in the walkway > Secure guitars: stable humidity, not by the radiator, stand out of the walkway, note the numbers. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/gitarren-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A guitar warps its neck when the air is too dry or too wet, and it falls off the stand as soon as someone carries a bag through the room. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it is an instrument that belongs in the case when you leave the room. ## What gets ruined without a thief Heating, cellar damp, a strap that loads the headstock, strings you forget at concert tension on a stored instrument even though the neck does not want that. You store it in the case or on a stable hook, not on the outside wall. You copy the serial number while you can still read it in the sound hole. ## When someone comes A case goes along. Five guitars on the living-room wall are a display. The one with a name and a receipt does not hang there. It lies in the case, locked, papers elsewhere. The policy names it when the price falls outside the lump sum. ## The folder Maker, model, number, year, receipt, condition of neck and frets. Photo of the front and of the number. ## Häufige Fragen ### On the wall or in the case? Play on the wall, store in the case when the room is open or too dry. ### Next to the heating? No. The neck warps. ### Number, where? Copy it down and photograph it. In the sound hole it later becomes unreadable if you never noted it. --- # Securing gold coins: the home raid that became a ransom > Secure gold coins: anchored cabinet, list with year and condition, the du-Pont case as the pattern for robbery in the house. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/goldmuenzen-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Gold coins are heavier than a watch and still small enough for a backpack. The price is public, the condition decides the spread. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) they sit with what the radar already names: coins appear on the loot list, less often than watches, but with individual high sums. ## The case in the house On 5 October 1967 masked armed attackers entered the villa of Willis du Pont in Coconut Grove, tied him and his wife up and took thousands of coins. The New York Times spoke in March 1968 of a robbery in the region of 2 million dollars, at the prices of that time, and of a part coming back against a ransom. This is the private case in which burglary, a person and extortion sit in one evening. Your apartment is not a villa in Miami. The pattern remains: someone knows the coins are in the house, and someone is at home. ## How they leave otherwise In the local radar up to August 2026 coins stand in a small two-digit number of cases, often together with jewelry and watches. A report from June 2026 names jewelry, cash, watches and coins in one apartment burglary with 100.000 Euro. Coin albums on the shelf are emptied faster than an anchored cabinet. ## Where to put them Albums you want to show do not hold the pieces whose price you want replaced in a claim. Those lie in the cabinet, in holders that give off no plasticizers. PVC pockets turn sticky and etch the surface. Year, denomination, mint mark and condition stand on the list, one line per piece, not "gold coins, various". ## The papers Purchase records and the list lie in the document cabinet. A second list, short, lies with the insurer. Anyone who puts a coin in a capsule writes the capsule number down as well, otherwise the count no longer matches after a breakage. ## Häufige Fragen ### Do coins appear in the radar? Yes, in a small number compared with jewelry and watches. Up to August 2026 there are about ten cases with the word coin on the loot list, among them one apartment burglary with 100.000 Euro for jewelry, cash, watches and coins together. ### Does a capsule protect against theft? It protects the surface. It can be carried away just the same. The cabinet and the anchoring are the theft side. ### What happened in 1967 in Coconut Grove? An armed raid in the house on the coin collection of Willis du Pont. Part of it came back against a ransom. --- # Securing graphics and prints: edition, number, and the sheet that creases > Securing prints: note the edition, store flat, avoid light, keep signature and number in the photo. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/grafik-drucke-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A print is a sheet from an edition. The number and the signature make the difference between a poster and a graphic. Both crease just as fast. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this sits with paper. ## What gets ruined without a thief Light, a crease, an acidic frame, damp. You store flat. You photograph the number under the signature once, sharp, before a frame hides it and you can no longer find it in five years. Posters for looking and graphics for insuring stay two stacks. ## When someone comes Framed on the wall it is visible, in the folder invisible and light. The expensive edition does not lie in the hallway stack of posters. It lies in the document cabinet when the format fits. The list states edition, number, dimensions. ## The folder Artist, title, technique, edition, number, dimensions, receipt. Photo of the signature and the number. On the policy, separately, as soon as the price requires it. ## Häufige Fragen ### Put posters and graphics together? Only in the same space, not on the list. The edition is the difference. ### Number not readable? Then you photograph it while you can still make it out, and you write it on the list. ### May the graphic hang? Yes, without direct sun and with an acid-free mount. The very expensive print has a dark permanent place. --- # Securing handbags: leather dries out, everyone knows the model > Securing handbags: dark and with shape kept, a breathing dust bag, keep receipt and dust bag, not by the window. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/handtaschen-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion You recognize a bag of a known shape from ten meters. Leather dries out by the radiator, and the plastic dust bag sweats. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is larger than jewelry and smaller than a piece of furniture, and the price often depends on the dust bag, the clasp, and the receipt. ## What gets ruined without a thief Heat, light, a stuffed cabinet that presses the shape, damp that mildews. You store with the shape kept, in the dark, breathing, not in tight film. Do not set the hardware so that it colors the leather beside it. ## When someone comes A shelf full of known models is a display. The bag whose price you want replaced does not lie there, and not in the hall on the dresser. It lies in the locked cabinet, receipt and card in the document cabinet. Worn and unworn are two states on the list. ## The folder Model, year, dimensions, with dust bag and box or without, receipt, photo of the clasp and the interior stamp. ## Häufige Fragen ### Plastic dust bag? If it does not breathe, the leather sweats. A breathing bag, stored in the dark. ### Worn, still a collection? Yes, but as worn on the list. The price is a different one. ### In the certified safe? If it fits and the sum requires it. Otherwise the locked, dry cabinet. --- # Securing historic securities: the paper is dead, the collector price lives > Secure historic securities: flat, dark, acid-free. Keep coupon and body as one piece, proofs separate. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/historische-wertpapiere-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An old share pays no dividend anymore. Its price is the print, the signature, the vignette, and the condition of the paper. Folded in a box in the attic, it turns brown. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits with paper, not with cash. ## What breaks without a thief Light, damp, acid, adhesive tape, paper clips with rust. You store flat and dark. A coupon that belongs to the sheet stays with the sheet, otherwise you have two half pieces. Ink from stamps can bleed if the folder gets damp. ## When someone comes A binder on the shelf is light. The offender often takes it for waste paper and leaves it, or takes it along because it looks very much like a binder. Your loss comes in both cases, once water or the mess joins in. Valuable sheets go in the document cabinet. ## The folder Catalog number, face value, denomination, whether the coupon is complete, purchase proof. A scan of front and back outside the apartment. The policy needs the collector price, not the printed face value from 1910. ## Häufige Fragen ### Are historic shares still money? No. They are collector's pieces made of paper. The printed amount is not the price. ### May I hang them framed? Then they are exposed to light. For storage, flat and dark. For showing, only briefly. ### Where does the coupon sheet go? With the piece, in the same folder, and marked on the list as complete or missing. --- # Securing insect cases and herbaria: feeding damage, light, and protected species > Secure insect cases: tight against feeding damage, dark, check species law before you buy or show them. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/insektenkaesten-herbarien-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An insect case is dry and tight, and still a pantry for other insects once the seal gives. A herbarium is pressed paper that light and damp turn into brown nothing. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), this sits with climate and with the law, because some species do not belong in the trade. ## The limit Protected species, whether pressed or on the pin, are not ordinary collecting material. Before the purchase and before the exchange, you ask whether you may own the piece. This text helps you store what you hold lawfully. It does not say how to get protected pieces. ## What breaks without a thief Museum beetles, light, damp, a leaking lid seam. You store dark and dry, and you check the cases. You separate an infestation from the rest at once. Herbarium sheets stay flat, labeled on the sheet, not loose in an envelope without a locality. ## When someone comes Cases are bulky. The loss is often the tipping and the mess, not the targeted grab. The room is locked, the list says which case holds which group. A single rare specimen with papers is also placed so that it is not the lid something falls onto. ## Häufige Fragen ### May I put every species in the case? Only what you may own. Clear protected species first. ### Infestation in one case? Separate it at once. Do not put it back on the shelf and look later. ### Herbarium by the window? No. Light and damp destroy the specimen without any thief. --- # Securing jade: impact, oil, and the origin you do not guess > Securing jade: shock-free, do not oil on a hunch, document the origin, take small pieces out of the jewelry dish. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/jade-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Jade is tough and still splinters at the thin spot. Some pieces are jewelry, some are sculpture, and the origin is often the dispute. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you write down only the origin you have, and you store it shock-free. ## Storage Do not stack, protect the thin spots, not in the jewelry dish by the door if the piece has a price of its own. Oil and wax only if someone who knows the material says so for this piece. An experiment shines once and then sits in the surface. ## The folder Measurements, color, origin as far as documented, whether it is jewelry or an object, proof, photo. The insurance policy separately, if the price requires it. ## Häufige Fragen ### Oil it? Not on a hunch. The surface is the condition. ### Origin China or elsewhere? Write down only what the proof says. ### In the jewelry dish? Only the pieces that really are jewelry, and whose loss you cover the way you cover jewelry. --- # Securing a camera collection: rangefinder, bellows and the lens cap that is missing > Secure cameras: dry, not in a damp leather pouch for long, expensive bodies in the cabinet, write the numbers down. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/kamerasammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A collector camera is metal, glass, and often a bellows or a cloth curtain that grows mold in the damp. The number on the body is the proof that it is this piece and not just any one from the same year. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it belongs with the small technical things. ## How it gets away Cameras barely appear in the Radar under their own word. They are still small, and a known brand is recognized by its shape. You do not leave five bodies on the sideboard when the apartment is open for the afternoon. The pieces with a number and a receipt lie in the anchored cabinet. ## What time does to it Damp puts fungus in the lens and mildew spots on the bellows. A leather pouch that is itself damp makes it worse. You store dry, with some air, not in the wet corner of the basement, and you check glass and cloth once a year. Batteries come out of the body before they leak. ## The papers Serial number, lens number, receipt, a photo of the number. The invoice in the document cabinet. One body and three lenses are four lines, not one camera. ## Häufige Fragen ### Fungus in the lens, what to do? Do not unscrew and clean it yourself. Store dry and ask someone who cleans optics. The cabinet does not stop the fungus if it stands in the damp. ### Does the ever-ready pouch belong with it? Only if it is dry. A damp pouch is damage, not packaging. ### Are photos of the collection on the table enough? As a memory, yes. As proof you need the number in the picture and the receipt beside it. --- # Securing classic motorcycles: lighter than the car, the same key > Securing motorcycles: dry parking spot, key kept apart, papers not under the seat, note the frame number. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/klassische-motorraeder-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A classic motorcycle is easier to wheel away than a car and just as dependent on the key. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), you secure it like the [vintage vehicle](/artikel/oldtimer-sichern), only with less weight on the keeper's side. ## What breaks without a thief Moisture, a soft tire, gasoline that sits in the carburetor for years, a cover that rubs on the paint. You store dry, the cover so that it does not rub, and you settle the state of the gasoline and the battery before both eat away the inside. ## When someone comes Two people wheel it out of an open hall. Gate shut, the key not in the ignition and not on the nail beside it, the frame number on the list, the papers in the document cabinet. An extra mechanical lock makes wheeling it away slower. It does not replace the gate. ## The folder Frame number, proof, condition, photo. The helmet and the clothing are another subject and do not lie on the seat. ## Häufige Fragen ### Cover, yes? Yes, if it does not rub on the paint and it does not stay damp underneath for good. ### Key in the lock, hall shut? No. Key away from the vehicle. ### Papers under the seat? No. That is where people look first. --- # Securing pianos and grands: climate, lock, and the lid that stays open > Secure a grand: steady humidity and temperature, not on the outside wall, insure scores and instrument apart. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/klaviere-fluegel-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A grand is a room. It goes out of tune with every jump in climate, and it warps the wood when the heating bakes it from one side. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it is the largest object this world still takes seriously. Carrying it off in one night is rare. Spoiling in winter is the rule if it stands against the wrong wall. ## What breaks without a thief Dryness, damp, direct sun, a window that drafts onto the lid. You do not put it against the cold outside wall, and not over the heating. You have it tuned on a rhythm the condition sets, not only when a key sticks. ## When someone comes The instrument stays. Sheet music can be taken along. A small signature on the lid is no reason to leave the lid open toward the street. The apartment door secures the grand. Very valuable instruments need a policy that names the piece, and a photo of the number in the cast frame. ## The folder Maker, number, year, proof, last major work. You photograph the number once, while you can still find it. ## Häufige Fragen ### Against the outside wall? No. Climate from two sides puts it out of tune and warps the wood. ### Lid open toward the street? That way you show the instrument. Closed, when you are not playing and the street looks in. ### Scores as well? Their own list. Valuable manuscripts have their own text: [Music manuscripts](/artikel/musikhandschriften-sichern). --- # Securing costumes: fabric, light, and the question of who wore it > Secure costumes: dark and breathing, check for moths, write the attribution on the list only with proof. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/kostueme-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A costume is fabric with an attribution. Without proof it is a dress. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you store it like [Couture](/artikel/couture-textilien-sichern): dark, breathing, flat if it is heavy, with a moth check. ## The attribution "Worn by" goes on the list only if a proof says so. Otherwise you write what you see: cut, label, condition. Invented closeness to a person is not a price an insurance policy replaces. ## If someone comes Bulky. The damage is often light and moths, not the night. The one documented piece does not hang by the door. The papers sit in the document cabinet. ## Häufige Fragen ### On a hanger? Only if the shoulder can take it. Heavy pieces lie flat. ### Attribution without paper? Then it does not stand as a fact on the list. ### Moths? Separate them at once. --- # Securing maps and globes: the sheet flat, the sphere clear of knocks > Securing maps and globes: maps flat and dark, globes clear of knocks and not by the heating, note size and condition. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/landkarten-globen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An old map is large paper. A globe is a sphere on a stand that falls over and whose color layer cracks. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), this is paper plus an object that needs the room. ## What breaks without a thief Light fades borders and colors. Folds break. A globe next to the heating dries out, the meridian warps, the sphere gets cracks. You store maps flat and dark. You set the globe clear of knocks, not in a passageway, not by the window. ## When someone comes A rolled map is light. A globe is bulky and still goes if it is small. Expensive sheets lie in the large folder, not as a roll by the door. The globe stands so that it is not the first thing in the hall. The insurance needs the dimensions and a photo from all sides. ## The folder Cartographer or publisher, year, dimensions, folded or flat, damage, proof. For the globe: diameter, condition of the sphere, whether the meridian is original. ## Häufige Fragen ### Hang the map? Without direct sun, and not for the long term, if the price sits in the unfolded sheet. ### Handle the globe? By the axis or the stand, not on the color layer with damp hands. ### A roll with a rubber band? No. Rubber cuts in. A folder is the better place. --- # Securing a LEGO collection: the sealed box is a different piece from the build > Secure LEGO: do not open sealed sets, keep the cardboard dry and uncrushed, list built quantities apart. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/lego-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A sealed LEGO set is cardboard, print, and a seal. Built, it is something to play with. Throwing both into one list makes the damage unreadable. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), LEGO is the example where the packaging can be the value. ## What breaks without a thief Cellar damp warps the cardboard. A stack that is too high pushes the corners in. Sun bleaches the yellow of the print. You store it dry, in the dark, with little pressure, not directly on the concrete. A set whose seal you open, you record as open from then on. ## When someone comes Full sets are easy to recognize and have a known shop price. Rare old sets have a collector price above that. They do not stand as a wall of original boxes in the room that faces the street. The rare boxes move to the inconspicuous place. Built models are bulky. A thief takes the box rather than the spaceship on the shelf, unless the spaceship is small and within reach. ## The folder Set number, sealed or open, condition of the corners, receipt for the expensive numbers. A photo of the seal edge. You count the built collection roughly by liters or by shelves, the sealed one number by number. ## Häufige Fragen ### Open a set and glue it shut again? Then it is no longer sealed. In the list you record it as open. ### Does the cardboard hold up in the living room? If sun and heating air are there, the print suffers. Dark and dry is the storage place. ### Does LEGO need a certified safe? The rare sealed box whose price you want to insure, yes. The built stock, no. --- # Securing licensed figures: the card, the figure, the variant > Securing licensed figures: do not crease the packaging, note the variant, avoid sun, take rare cards out of the big stack. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/lizenzfiguren-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Figures from a large licensed universe, from Star Wars to what came after, follow the rule for [action figures](/artikel/action-figures-ovp-sichern). The card is often the price, the variant the difference, the sun the slow damage. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is not its own type of safe, but the same physics. ## What you do differently from playing Sealed stays sealed. The rare variant goes on the list with the small difference you will still understand in a year: a card, a color, a print. It does not sit in the stack by the door. ## The folder Line, year, variant, original packaging or loose, proof, photo of the card. ## Häufige Fragen ### All figures separately? Only the ones whose price you want to prove and replace. The rest as a box. ### Crease the card? Then the condition is a different one. ### Same cabinet as the watches? Only if the climate and the sum fit. Cardboard wants it dry and not hot. --- # Securing loose gemstones: small, unmounted, no second chance > Secure loose gemstones: certificate and stone apart, the safe anchored, no bag in the desk drawer. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/lose-edelsteine-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A loose stone has no setting that makes it large. It disappears into a vest pocket, and without a certificate it is afterward one stone among many. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits next to jewellery, only with even less volume. ## How it leaves The same drawer that gives up cash and jewellery gives up the bag with them. In the radar the loot is usually called jewellery, not "loose stone". For you that changes the list: each stone one line, with carat, cut, and the certificate number. A collector tin with nothing in it is an empty claim in a loss. ## What time does to them Stones do not chip on their own. The bags do: soft PVC turns sticky and clouds surfaces, acidic paper stains. You store in acid-free material, dry, dark. A fire in the safe soots the stones too. The fire resistance of the safe is the issue here, not the look of the tin. ## Where they go A flat box in the anchored safe, the box not labelled "diamonds". The certificates lie somewhere else. If you send a stone out of the house to be set, you photograph it first on the certificate, with the date, and you get a receipt from the workshop. ## The papers The lab report number, not only the word "certified". A digital copy, in a place that does not see the same fire. The policy names stones one by one once they fall outside the flat limit for valuables. That limit is in the guide to insurance, not a feeling. ## Häufige Fragen ### Does the report sit with the stone? No. Stone in the certified safe, report in the document cabinet. If you carry both in one sleeve, you lose both in one grab. ### Is a phone photo enough? As a supplement, yes. It does not replace the lab report, and it does not belong in a public gallery with a location. ### Are coloured gemstones stored differently from diamonds? The theft side is the same. Colour can suffer in light and heat, so keep them dark and not in the window. --- # Securing manuscripts: a sheet that nobody can reprint > Securing manuscripts: flat, acid-free, document the origin, not as wall decor in the sun. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/manuskripte-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A manuscript exists once. A copy on the wall is decoration, the sheet is the piece. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), it sits with drawing and letter, with even less replacement. ## What breaks without a thief Light, acid, moisture, a crease, ink that bleeds. You store flat, acid-free, dark. You stick nothing on the sheet, not even a "careful" label. The writing sits on the folder, not on the paper. ## When someone comes Light, quiet, looks like paper. The expensive bundle lies in the document cabinet, not on the open shelf with the label "Manuscripts". Origin and proof lie as a copy outside and, in the original, at a second place in the house. ## The folder Author, extent in sheets, dating, what the text is about in one sentence, origin, proof. A photo of every page or, for a thick bundle, a list you can follow. Without a list, after a loss, you cannot say what was missing. ## Häufige Fragen ### Hang a copy, put the original away? Yes. The copy is on view, the sheet is stored. ### Label on the sheet? No. Label the folder. ### Photograph every page? For a few sheets, yes. For a thick stack, a list you can check. --- # Securing meteorites: rust, the cut face, and the certificate > Securing meteorites: store dry, do not touch cut faces, keep the certificate separate, no iron in a damp cellar. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/meteoriten-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Iron meteorites rust in a damp cellar. You fingerprint a polished cut face in one evening. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is a small piece with a certificate that holds the price. ## Storage Dry, cut face covered, not on an open shelf above the heater, and not in the wet. You do not touch the polish with bare fingers. The certificate sits in the document cabinet, the stone in the cabinet if the sum calls for it. ## When someone comes Small, and without a certificate often just a stone to the offender. For you the certificate is the proof. Losing both in one place is unnecessary. The list states type, weight, whether a cut face is there, proof. ## The folder Weight, classification as far as documented, certificate, photo of the cut face. ## Häufige Fragen ### In the cellar? Only if it is dry. Iron rusts. ### Put the certificate with the stone? No. Separate. Otherwise both are missing. ### Touch the cut face? Not with bare fingers. The face is the condition. --- # Securing minerals: dust, shock, and the specimen that crumbles > Secure minerals: shock-free, not in full sun, toxic specimens not open in a child's room, label with the piece. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/mineralien-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A mineral specimen crumbles when it hits the specimen next to it, and some specimens do not belong in the open in a room where children touch the dust. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you store shock-free and you read what you have in the house before you build a display case in the hall. ## Storage Each specimen with air, a label that does not stick directly on the crystal face, dark if the color is light-sensitive. You lift by the matrix, not by the tip. ## When someone comes Heavy and often uninteresting, small aesthetic specimens get taken if they look like jewelry. Those do not lie by the door. The list states the find spot only if you can document it. An invented find spot is a lie in the folder. ## The folder Mineral, find spot as far as documented, dimensions, proof, photo. Toxic pieces, or pieces that shed dust, marked as such and locked away. ## Häufige Fragen ### Hold it by the tip? No. By the matrix. ### Every mineral in the hall? No, if dust or poison is an issue. Locked away, and read what you own. ### Guess the find spot? No. Write down only what you can document. --- # Securing the model railway: the layout stays, the package with the rare wagons goes > Securing a model railway: rare wagons not in the open by the door, avoid damp, keep original cartons of the expensive pieces. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/modellbahn-anlage-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A layout is a room. The rare wagons and locomotives in the original packaging are a drawer. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you secure the two differently: the room against knocks and dust, the packaging against being carried off. ## What gets ruined without a thief Basement damp, sun on the carton, dust in the set, a shelf that crushes the bottom box. You store dry, cartons with little weight on them, the layout so that nobody walks through the scenery with a bag. ## When someone comes The layout usually stays put. A crate of labeled original cartons goes. That crate does not stand at the door of the hobby room when the door to the rest of the apartment is open. Very expensive single wagons lie in the cabinet, carton not crushed, when the sum requires it. ## The folder Manufacturer, article number, sealed or run, receipt for the expensive ones. The layout itself as a description with photos, so that water damage has a basis. ## Häufige Fragen ### Carton or only the model? If the price depends on the carton, keep the carton and mention it on the list. ### Layout in a damp basement? Then it rusts and warps with no burglary. Put it somewhere dry, or do not build it there. ### What goes in a burglary? The small crate of rare packages, rather than the layout that is screwed down. --- # Securing music manuscripts: ink, light, and a sheet that exists only once > Securing music manuscripts: flat and dark, like a manuscript, document the origin, not framed in the sun. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/musikhandschriften-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A handwritten sheet with music is a manuscript. It follows the text on [manuscripts](/artikel/manuskripte-sichern): flat, acid-free, dark, origin written down, nothing glued to the sheet. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) the only difference is that musicians like to frame them. The frame in the sun is the damage. ## When someone comes Light, it looks like paper. The documented sheet stays in the document safe. A copy may lie on the piano that belongs with the [grand piano](/artikel/klaviere-fluegel-sichern). The original does not. ## The folder Composer as far as documented, work, extent, origin, proof, photo. Without proof you do not write "attributed" as a fact. ## Häufige Fragen ### Leave it on the grand piano? A copy, yes. The original dark and flat. ### Framed? Not in the sun, and not as a permanent place for the expensive sheet. ### Attribution? Only with proof, as a fact. Otherwise mark it as open. --- # Securing netsuke: ivory and wood are not the same law > Secure netsuke: identify the material, ivory only with papers, store dark and without knocks, write down the provenance. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/netsuke-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A netsuke is small enough for a fist, and often made of a material that is a legal question today. Wood, lacquer, and bone sit in the same case and do not follow the same law. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) and in the text on [ivory and CITES](/artikel/elfenbein-cites-sichern), the separation comes before the certified safe. ## The legal position first Ivory and some other animal materials, you may not simply buy, sell, or take across a border. Whether your piece has an exception is written on papers, not in the age you think you see on it. Wood, lacquer, and newer materials are a different subject. You identify the material before you store and before you buy. This text is not a trade guide. ## Theft and decay Carrying them off is easy. Light fades lacquer, dryness cracks wood, damp loosens glue. You store them dark and stable, without the pieces knocking against each other. The pieces backed by papers sit in the cabinet, the papers in the document cabinet. ## What you write down The material in your own words and, if needed, after a specialist identification. Dimensions, motif, provenance, proof. A photo from every side, including the two holes that belong to the piece. If a paper is missing for an ivory piece, you ask the competent office before you pass it on. ## Häufige Fragen ### Is every old netsuke made of ivory? No. Identify the material, do not guess. What you may do with it depends on that. ### May I sell an ivory netsuke? Only if the papers and the law allow it. Ask first, do not advertise it. ### How do I store wood? Dark, not next to the heater, not in the wet tin. Without knocks. --- # Securing a lens collection: glass, fungus and the number on the ring > Secure lenses: dry, upright or with caps, numbers one by one, do not forget them in a damp case. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/objektivsammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A lens is glass in a barrel. The price sits in the invoice and in the coating, the damage sits inside as a haze, long before anyone enters the house. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it belongs with the camera, as its own line. ## What gets ruined without a thief Fungus likes damp and darkness without air exchange. A case in the basement is known for that. Dust under the lens comes from opening it in the wrong air, not from lying there with both caps on. You store dry, with caps on, and you air the stock on a rhythm you keep, instead of forgetting the case for ten years. ## When someone comes A full case has a handle. It goes in one move. Expensive fixed focal lengths do not lie in that one case by the door. They lie in the cabinet or in a second container that is not labeled like "the camera equipment". ## The folder Each focal length a line, with serial number and receipt. A scratch on the front element is held in the photo before you later confuse it with burglary damage. The policy sees four lenses if you send four lines. ## Häufige Fragen ### Caps on, or air the glass? Caps on while storing, and the space behind them dry. Airing means the cabinet or the case, not the bare lens in the dust. ### Is a lens case a certified safe? It is a handle. For the expensive focal lengths you need a place that cannot be lifted away at the door. ### Does the number on the bayonet count? Yes, it goes on the list, together with the number on the ring, when both are present. --- # Securing classic cars: the parking spot is the safe, the key a second piece > Secure a classic car: locked hall, key not by the door, vehicle papers elsewhere, photograph the condition. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/oldtimer-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A classic car fits in no cabinet. The parking spot is the protection: gate, light, neighborhood, and a key that does not hang on the hook next to the door. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it is the largest mobile asset. ## What breaks without a thief Damage from standing still, a damp hall, martens, a battery that leaks, tires that sit until they develop flat spots. You move the vehicle on a rhythm the mechanics demand, and you store it dry. A soft top put away wet rots. ## When someone comes Driving it away is the goal, not the glove box. Keys and papers are not in the car and not at the gate. The papers go in the document cabinet, a spare key in a third place. The policy knows the chassis number and an agreed value. You take photos of every side and of distinctive details before damage is supposed to have "always been there." ## The folder Chassis number, license plate, proof, last major work, agreed insured value. The key as its own line: where it is. ## Häufige Fragen ### Key on the hook? No, not next to the gate. Separate from the vehicle. ### Papers in the glove box? No. In the document cabinet. In the car, what the trip legally has to have with it is enough, not the whole history. ### Damp hall? Then it rusts without any thief. Park it dry. --- # Securing orders and medals: ribbon, pin, and the question of who the piece belonged to > Secure orders: store ribbons in the dark, note provenance, do not confuse orders from unjust regimes, as decor, with what you may own. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/orden-medaillen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An order is metal and a ribbon, and often a story that belongs to another person. The ribbon fades. The pin rusts into the case. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), the piece sits on the line: small enough for the safe, delicate as soon as the origin or the insignia itself is a legal question. ## The law first Some you may own and display, some you may not, depending on the insignia and on what criminal law and association law say about it. This text is not a license for prohibited insignia. If you are unsure, you ask before you buy the piece or hang it on the wall. For permitted orders: write the origin down, do not invent it. ## Theft and decay A case in the secretary is light. Ribbons fade in the light, silk breaks, iron rusts onto leather. You store dark and dry, metal and ribbon so that the pin does not pierce the silk. Truly expensive pieces, with proof of a conferral or of a clear auction provenance, lie in the safe. ## What you write down Designation, metal, whether the ribbon is original, origin, receipt. A photo of the front, the back, and the ribbon. The conferral document, if there is one, in the document safe, not under the order. ## Häufige Fragen ### May every order go on the wall? No. Some insignia are prohibited. You clear that before hanging and before buying. This text does not decide it. ### Is the ribbon replaceable? A new ribbon is a different piece. The list states whether it is original. ### Where does the document lie? In the document safe, separate from the metal. --- # Securing perfume flacons: the contents eat the stopper, the glass shatters > Secure perfume flacons: separate contents and bottle if the stopper suffers, store them dark and without shocks. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/parfumflakons-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An old flacon is glass and often still contents that attack the stopper or have long since lost the scent. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you decide whether the price sits on the glass or on the fill, and you store it accordingly. ## Storage Without shocks, dark, upright, not in the sun. If the contents eat through the stopper, you get advice before you pull it by force. Do not wash the labels off. They are the proof. ## If someone comes Small, glass, visible in a display case by the door. The rare flacons stand farther inside, or in the cabinet. List: house, scent as far as it can be read, full or empty, proof, photo of the label. ## Häufige Fragen ### Stopper by force? No. If it sticks, you get advice. A cracked neck is the end. ### Take the label off? No. It belongs to the piece. ### A display case by the door? Then people see it. The rare ones stand somewhere else. --- # Securing furs: moths, cold, and the species-protection paper > Securing furs: cool, breathing, moth checks, review the species-protection papers before you buy or store. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/pelze-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion The moth eats the fur, and some furs are not allowed across the street without papers, let alone across the border. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) fur sits with textiles and at the legal line, next to [Ivory and CITES](/artikel/elfenbein-cites-sichern). ## The limit Which species you may own, buy, and pass on is not on the label in the collar. It is in species-protection law and on the papers that come with the piece. You ask before you buy. This text is not a buying guide. ## What gets ruined without a thief Moth, heat, a plastic cover with no air, light. You store cool, dark, and breathing, and you check. An infestation moves into the whole cabinet. You separate at once. ## When someone comes Bulky, but a small jacket goes along. It does not hang on the door. The papers lie in the document cabinet, the piece in the cool cabinet, not in the hot safe. ## Häufige Fragen ### Plastic cover? Only with air. Otherwise the fur goes musty. ### Which species are allowed? The papers and the competent authority say that, not this text. Ask before you buy. ### Moths in the cabinet? Infested pieces out at once, check the cabinet, do not wait. --- # Securing pearls: dry, they go blind, damp, they go soft > Secure pearls: do not forget them in dry steel, not by the window, keep the string and the report separate. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/perlen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Pearls are jewelry and, at the same time, a material that dries out. A steel box forgotten airtight for years is a bad place for a pearl, and so is an open tray by the heater. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) they sit on the border between the certified safe and climate. ## What breaks without a thief Pearls like skin when you wear them, and they do not like heating air, perfume straight on the string, or a bath in the tin. The string itself breaks at some point. You have it restrung before a pearl is on the floor and goes into the vacuum cleaner. Color and luster are in the report. Without that sheet, every later clouding becomes an assertion. ## When someone comes The same drawer as the rest of the jewelry. In the Radar the pearl falls under jewelry, 385 cases with a loot list up to August 2026. A strand is easy to grab and easy to tear. You store it so that it does not hang on an edge. ## The room Against theft, an anchored cabinet. For the material, not dried out for good. You take the strands out to air them, on a rhythm you have written in the calendar, and you put them back afterward. Not on the dresser "until tomorrow". ## The folder Photo of the clasp, length, count, report. Invoice separate from the jewelry. The policy knows the strand as a line, not as "various pearls". ## Häufige Fragen ### May pearls stay in the certified safe? Against theft, yes. Against drying out, you take them into the air on a fixed rhythm and put them back. ### Does a pearl count on its own in the Radar? No. The reports say jewelry. Your list says which strand it was. ### What about cultured pearls versus natural pearls? The securing is the same. The price and the report differ, and that is what belongs in the folder. --- # Securing petroliana and enamel signs: the enamel chips, the nail rusts > Securing enamel signs: do not stack them in a damp garage, keep enamel free of knocks, rare signs off the street wall. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/petroliana-emailleschilder-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An enamel sign chips as soon as something strikes it, and it rusts from the nail outward when the garage is damp. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it is a flat piece that people screw to the wall and then forget. ## What gets ruined without a thief Damp, rust, a stack with no interlayer, sun that bleaches the color, a nail through the original hole into a wet wall. You store dry, with air, nothing hard on the enamel. For hanging, a wall that does not sweat, and a fixing that does not put more holes in the sign. ## When someone comes On the outside wall facing the street it is an invitation. Rare signs hang inside, inconspicuously, or lie dry in the locked room. They are easily small enough for a car trunk. The list states motif, dimensions, damage in the enamel. ## The folder Motif, dimensions, maker if known, receipt, photo in daylight so the chips show. ## Häufige Fragen ### Hang them outside? Only what you can lose. Rare signs hang inside and dry. ### Stack them on each other? With an interlayer, or the enamel chips. ### Drill a new hole? That changes the piece. The list should know before you drill. --- # Securing PEZ and fast-food toys: the dispenser, the slip, the bag > Secure PEZ and giveaways: write down the variant, keep plastic out of the sun, leave sealed bags sealed. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/pez-fastfood-spielzeug-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A PEZ dispenser is a small piece of plastic where the stamp, the color, and the country make the price. A toy from a fast-food bag is the same pattern: bulk, and then a variant that is rare. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits next to the surprise egg. ## How it gets taken In a box it is a toy. The one rare variant you put on top and photograph becomes a target among collectors, not among opportunistic offenders. You post the variant without the stack and without the room. It does not show up in the Radar. ## What time does to it Sun discolors plastic, especially white and red. Stickers come loose. A sealed bag you open is a loose figure afterward. You store dark and cool, without dispensers hooking into each other and the stamp rubbing off. ## The folder For the bulk, a box with the decade. For the rare ones, one line: variant, country, whether the sticker is original, proof. A photo of the stamp. Only when these lines add up to a sum you want to insure does the cabinet come into play. ## Häufige Fragen ### Is every PEZ a case for the certified safe? No. The rare variant with proof, once the sum requires it. The rest, dark in the box. ### Open the bag? Only if the figure matters more to you than the sealed bag. The price follows that decision. ### Does the plastic discolor in the cabinet? Less than at the window. Heat over time is still bad, so not next to the heating. --- # Securing Pokémon cards: the shop case is documented, the living room stays the same physics > Secure Pokémon cards: keep slabs and displays apart, post no address with the collection, take fire and creases seriously. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/pokemon-sammelkarten-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion In a few years Pokémon cards have gone from the school bag to a piece with an auction price. A graded card is small. A sealed display is a box that every reseller recognizes. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is the case where a mass product produces individual very expensive pieces. ## What is documented A shop in Cincinnati lost Pokémon cards worth 113.650 dollars in 2025. Further documented cases sit in shops, not in living rooms. For your home that means: the loot is known, the German police snapshot in our radar does not name them yet. You do not wait for the first report in the neighbourhood. ## Crease, light, fire A raw card dies at the corner. Light bleaches foil and surface. A sealed display that you open "just to look" is a different product afterward. Slabs belong dry in the safe. Displays do not belong in the heating cellar, and they do not belong stacked against the glass front towards the street. ## Where they go The few cards with a price you want replaced go into the anchored certified safe, with the certificate number on the list. The rest of the play collection can sit in a cupboard compartment, clearly separate, so that one loss does not throw everything into one pot. No item list with your home address on the internet. ## The papers Receipt, set, card number, grade, certificate. A photo of the capsule. The policy on its own, once the sum leaves the flat limit. ## Häufige Fragen ### Are Pokémon burglaries private homes? The cleanly documented recent cases are shops. A shop in Cincinnati lost cards for 113.650 dollars in 2025. The home follows the same physics once the cards sit there. ### Leave the display closed? If the price hangs on the seal, yes. Opened, it is different goods. ### Is a desk drawer enough? For decks you play, yes. For graded cards with a receipt, no. --- # Securing porcelain and ceramics: the knock is the damage, the display cabinet is the stage > Secure porcelain: no knocks, not by the through-door, photograph the mark on the base, anchor the cabinet. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/porzellan-keramik-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Porcelain dies from a knock. A display cabinet in a passageway loses more value from a bump than some burglaries that look for jewelry and leave the cups standing. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is a room matter with fragile contents. ## What breaks without a thief A knock, a loose shelf board, temperature swings on very thin porcelain, a mark on the base that you rub off when you handle the piece. You lift by the body, not by the handle and not by the lid knob. You do not stack cup in cup when the rim cannot take it. ## When someone comes Bulky and fragile. Many offenders leave it standing. Your risk is the tip-over on the way out, and the cabinet that can be seen from outside. Heavy cabinets are anchored so they do not leave as a whole or fall over. The few very expensive pieces do not stand in the front row toward the street. ## The folder Shape, the mark on the base as a photo, damage, origin, proof. A chipped rim is already chipped in the list. The policy names the top pieces. ## Häufige Fragen ### Lift by the handle? No. By the body. Handles and knobs break off. ### Anchor the cabinet? Yes, if it can fall over or be carried off. The guide on anchoring applies to more than steel cabinets. ### Does porcelain show up on the radar? Practically not. The usual damage is the knock, not the report. --- # Securing postcards: the view, the writing, and the box that turns acidic > Secure postcards: flat, no rubber band, read the writing side too, expensive cards one by one on the list. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/postkarten-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion An old picture postcard is two sides: the image and the message. Anyone who scans only the picture loses the postmark, the route, and the handwriting, and the price often sits there. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), the card sits with the paper, next to stamps and banknotes. ## What breaks without a thief Rubber bands cut through the stack in twenty years. Metal clips rust. Sunlight takes the color off the lithographic print. Cardboard boxes from the supermarket turn acidic. You store flat, in sleeves, in the dark, dry, and you do not stack so high that the bottom card loses its embossing. ## When someone comes A shoebox is taken quickly and thrown away quickly, because it looks like paper. For you, what is lost is the order. Really expensive single cards, for example with a rare view or a significant handwriting, do not sit in the box with the thousands. They have a sleeve of their own in the document cabinet and a line in the list. ## The folder Place, publisher, whether it went through the mail, and one sentence on the back. For bulk holdings you count the boxes and describe the main themes. For the expensive cards, a picture of both sides, stored outside the apartment. ## Häufige Fragen ### Mix mailed and unmailed cards? In storage, yes. In the list, no. Mailed means: the postmark and the text belong to the piece. ### Are rubber bands a theft problem? No. They are a time problem. They crush the stack and discolor it. ### How many cards belong in one box? Few enough that you can lift the stack without creasing the bottom card. --- # Securing armor: weight, rust, and the question of whether the piece is complete > Securing armor: dry, on a stand that holds, list the parts one by one, not in the damp hall. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/ruestungen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Armor is heavy and made of parts that disappear one by one. A missing glove is another piece. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you secure the stand and the list, not a small compartment. ## What gets ruined without a thief Damp, rust, a stand that does not hold the weight, leather straps that tear, a hall that condenses in winter. You store dry, and you do not oil wildly over marks and etchings. You check whether the stand is anchored, so that nobody knocks the figure over in passing. ## When someone comes Heavy, but portable in parts. Helmets and small plates go first. They do not lie loose on the chest by the door. The room is locked, and the list knows every part. Edged weapons beside them have their own text, legally as well: [Edged weapons](/artikel/blankwaffen-sammlung-sichern). ## The folder Parts one by one, material, dimensions, origin, receipt, photo from the front and of the inside with the marks. ## Häufige Fragen ### In the damp hall? No. Rust eats with no burglary. ### Tie the parts together? Only so that the straps do not tear and nothing gets lost. On the list every part stays one line. ### Stand fixed? Yes. Armor that falls over is the damage guests cause. --- # Securing collector bicycles: light, expensive, and the basement is already full of everyday bikes > Securing collector bicycles: not in the open hallway, note the frame number, lock the everyday bike apart. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/sammlerfahrraeder-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A collector bicycle in the hallway looks like the everyday bike, and the everyday bike is one of the most ordinary hauls in this country. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you separate the two, otherwise you insure a hobby and lose a named piece without having named it. ## What gets ruined without a thief Rust, a damp underground garage, tires that die, leather that mildews. You store dry, not in the rain drain of the basement. ## When someone comes The hallway and the open basement are the normal route. Copy the frame number, use a lock that matches the weight, and do not put the expensive bike by the door with the light U-lock of the everyday one. The policy knows the number when the price goes beyond an ordinary bike. Photo of the frame number and the distinctive features. ## The folder Manufacturer, number, receipt, condition. Everyday bike and collector piece as two lines, two locks, two places. ## Häufige Fragen ### Lock it with the everyday bike? Only if both are locked the way the more expensive piece requires. Better: two places. ### Hallway? No. That is where bikes disappear. ### Number, where? Copy it from the frame and photograph it, the receipt with it in the document cabinet. --- # Securing collector glass: Lalique and the fine piece that chips at the rim > Securing glass: clear of knocks and out of the sun, photograph the signature, heavy pieces low. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/sammlerglas-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Glass chips at the rim and fades, when the mass itself bears the color, in full sun. A signature in the base is the proof and, at the same time, the place where you must not grind along the piece. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), collector glass sits next to porcelain. ## What breaks without a thief Impact, a shelf that is too tight, heat, a lid that sticks and that you lift by force. You store with air between the pieces, heavy ones low, light ones not on the edge. You carry a heavy piece with both hands, at the body. ## When someone comes Fragile and often left standing, but a small signed bowl is easy to take. It does not stand by the door. Anchor the display cabinet, do not leave the cabinet door open when tradespeople walk through. The list knows the signature. ## The folder Artist or manufactory, model, dimensions, signature as a photo, damage, proof. A chip on the foot that was already there is photographed with it. ## Häufige Fragen ### In the sun? No, if the color in the glass is the price. And never so that heat stresses the piece. ### Clean the signature? Do not scrub. A soft cloth, otherwise the signature is a memory. ### Display cabinet open while cleaning the windows? Then the pieces have been moved, or the door stays shut. The bump is the common damage. --- # Securing records: heat warps the disc, the sleeve is half > Secure records: upright, cool, not by the window, keep sleeve and disc as one piece. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/schallplatten-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A record warps in the heat and then skips. The sleeve bleaches at the window and, on some pressings, is half the price. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) vinyl sits with climate, the rare pressings also with the small value that fits in a box. ## What gets ruined without a thief Sun, radiator, a stack lying flat under weight, an inner sleeve that sticks. You store upright, cool, dark, not too tight. You hold by the edge. A record you leave on the platter gets dusty and warps on the machine, which itself gets warm. ## When someone comes A shelf full of spines is slow to empty, a box with the ten expensive pressings is fast. Those ten do not stand at eye level by the door. They stand unobtrusively or, if the sum requires it, in the locked cabinet, upright, not in the hot safe. ## The folder Artist, title, pressing or country, condition of disc and sleeve separately, receipt for the expensive ones. Photo of the sleeve and of the label. ## Häufige Fragen ### Lie flat or stand? Stand, cool, without side pressure. ### Insure the sleeve separately? Grade them separately in the list. On some records the sleeve is the price. ### Next to the heating? No. Heat warps the vinyl. --- # Securing shellac and cylinders: it breaks as soon as it is knocked > Secure shellac: upright, shock-free, cool. Do not let cylinders roll, keep the sleeve. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/schellack-walzen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Shellac breaks. A cylinder rolls off the shelf and is then a pile of shards with a song you no longer play. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is the fragile relative of the record. ## What gets ruined without a thief Shock, heat, a row packed too tight that chips the edge off, damp on the paper sleeve. You store upright, with a little play, cool, and you do not stack cylinders so that the bottom one carries the load. Play only on a machine built for it, not on a guess. ## When someone comes Boxes are heavy and fragile. An offender is more likely to knock them over than to sort them. Your protection is a locked, quiet cabinet and a list that names every rare disc. The everyday carton does not stand in the hall, where a bag drags it off. ## The folder Title, number, condition, whether the sleeve is there, receipt for the rare ones. Photo of the label. A cracked disc stays in the list as cracked, so that you do not later enter it as new damage. ## Häufige Fragen ### Store shellac like vinyl? Upright and cool, yes, only more sensitive to shock. More play in the row. ### Stack cylinders? Not so the bottom one carries the load. Shock-free, lying down only if the shape calls for it and nothing rolls. ### Playing them? Only on a suitable machine. A try on the wrong platter is the break. --- # Securing ship models: the rigging gathers dust, the mast breaks > Secure ship models: dust-protected, shock-free, not by the door, dimensions and scale on the list. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/schiffsmodelle-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A ship model loses masts at the first knock and dust settles into every rope. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is an object you do not set down in the passageway. ## What breaks without a thief Knocks, dust, sun on the sails, a shelf that wobbles. A display case helps against dust and against the sleeve that passes by. You lift by the hull, not by the mast. ## When someone comes Bulky, rarely the first target. The damage is the tipping over. Small models in the display case by the door still get taken if they look like something that can be sold. The case stands farther inside, is anchored, the list knows the scale and the yard, if that can be documented. ## The folder Scale, yard or builder, dimensions, proof, photo from the side. Missing parts are already missing, not only after the visit. ## Häufige Fragen ### Hold it by the mast? No. By the hull. The mast breaks. ### Open shelf? Then it gathers dust and takes knocks. A display case is the better place. ### Case fixed? Yes, if it can fall over. --- # Securing a jewelry collection: the most frequent item in EinbruchsRadar > Secure jewelry: most frequently named loot in EinbruchsRadar. Anchored cabinet, papers apart, no display case toward the street. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/schmucksammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Jewelry is, in the local EinbruchsRadar up to August 2026, the most frequently named loot item: 385 cases with a loot list. It is small, the price is known to the offender, and it often lies where the morning starts, on the tray, in the top drawer. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is the core of the world a certified safe really serves. ## Two ways it leaves The quiet burglary clears the known places in minutes. The second case is louder: on 5 October 1967 armed attackers tied up Willis du Pont and his wife in their house in Coconut Grove and took the coins, a pattern that occurs with jewelry the same way as soon as someone is in the house. On the night of 3 to 4 October 2016 Kim Kardashian was robbed with armed force in the Hôtel de Pourtalès in Paris. That is robbery, and I do not name a sum for it, because the figures diverge. The house case with nobody in the room is Kensington, December 2019: Tamara Ecclestone was in Lapland, the early report spoke of 50 million pounds, the 2021 conviction listed the gang's series at 26 million pounds, the Kensington strike as the largest and at 25 million pounds. ## Where to put it What you wear this week stays a small selection. The rest lies in the anchored cabinet, not in a display case facing the street and not in the wardrobe next to the door. Stones in a loose bag without a setting are a risk of their own: they are even smaller. The grade of the cabinet follows the sum the insurer requires for jewelry outside the household-contents lump sum. ## The papers Appraisals, certificates for the stones and photos on a neutral background lie in the document cabinet. On the item list there is one sentence on how you recognize the piece: engraving, inclusion, an old repair. Without the photo the policy replaces a similar piece, not yours. ## Häufige Fragen ### Why does jewelry rank ahead of watches in the radar? Because the reports name it more often: 385 cases with a loot list against 217 with a watch, status of the local radar up to August 2026. ### Does a display case with alarm glass help? It shows the collection. For pieces whose loss you do not make good from the household-contents lump sum, the closed cabinet is the place. ### What about the jewelry you wear every day? It is visible and gone as soon as someone accosts you on the street. The collection at home is separate from that. --- # Securing snuffboxes: lid, hinge, and the patina inside > Securing snuffboxes: do not scrape out the patina, do not oil the hinge on a guess, list box and lid as one piece. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/schnupftabakdosen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A snuffbox is a small container with a hinge, and often with a patina that belongs to the price. Anyone who scours it bright inside scours the collector value away with it. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), it sits with the small metal pieces. ## How it leaves A handful of boxes is a bag. They often lie in a display cabinet among other small stuff, and that is exactly where what shines gets taken. You separate the documented pieces from the decor. The documented ones lie in the cabinet. ## What time does to them Horn cracks in dryness, silver tarnishes on cardboard that gives off sulfur, a hinge breaks when the lid is pressed too far. You do not oil on a guess. You store dry, every box shut, nothing stacked one inside another so that it loads the hinge from the side. ## The papers Material, dimensions, whether lid and bottom belong together, origin, proof. A photo from the side, so the hinge is visible. Inside, a shot before someone "cleans". ## Häufige Fragen ### May I clean a box inside? No, if the patina belongs to the piece. Dust yes, scouring no. ### Found a loose lid, what now? List it as incomplete. Do not press a foreign lid to fit. ### Stacked or one by one? One by one, so the hinge does not take a side load. --- # Securing typewriters and early computers: dust, battery, and the rare machine > Secure early computers: rechargeables and batteries out, store dry, the rare machine not as decor by the door. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/schreibmaschinen-fruehe-rechner-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A typewriter is heavy and dusty. An early computer is often only a shell once the rechargeable battery has leaked. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you take the batteries out before you put the machine on the shelf. ## Storage Dry, dust cover, nothing stacked on the keyboard, no batteries in the compartment. Drives and tapes are a climate of their own, cool and dry, and a copy of the data somewhere else if the data are the value. The housing alone is then only the housing. ## When someone comes Heavy, rarely the first target, but a small rare machine is easy. It does not stand by the door. The number and the proof are on the list. Cipher machines have their own text, because law and history sit closer there: [Cipher machines](/artikel/chiffriermaschinen-sichern). ## Häufige Fragen ### Batteries left in? No. Leakage destroys the contacts. ### Data only on the machine? Then a failure is the loss. A copy somewhere else, if the data count. ### Oil the typewriter? Not into the type so that you gum them up. Dust, yes. An experiment, no. --- # Securing a firearms collection: the cabinet is required, the papers are the price > Secure firearms: gun cabinet by grade, papers kept apart, record pieces in their own overview. This text does not replace firearms law. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/schusswaffen-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A firearm in Germany lies in a cabinet whose resistance grade is set by the law and the firearms authority, not by your feeling. New cabinets are at least at resistance grade 0 under EN 1143-1. How many handguns and long guns each grade takes, and that heirs do not inherit an old grandfathered status along with it, is in the guide [Gun cabinet grade 0 and 1](/artikel/waffenschrank-klasse-0-1). In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is the one collection for which the cabinet is not a matter of taste. ## The collector price beside it What a firearm can be worth at auction is in the text [The most valuable weapons](/artikel/wertvollste-waffen) and in the profiles there, from the Colt to the Marengo sabre, which is however an edged weapon. For your collection: number, caliber and the papers make the difference between a firearm and a documented piece. The papers do not lie in the gun cabinet with the firearm. Ammunition and firearm follow the rule from the guide, not an idea of your own. ## What time does to it Moisture starts rust, the wrong oil turns gummy, wood moves. You store it the way the cabinet and the piece can take, and you check on a fixed rhythm. A rust spot you keep silent about is a dispute later. ## The folder Each firearm one line: type, caliber, number, document. The license and the correspondence with the authority go in the document cabinet. The authority remains the place that decides when there is doubt. This text is the way to secure the collection, not legal advice. ## Häufige Fragen ### Which cabinet? The grade is named by firearms law and your firearms authority. The guide to grade 0 and 1 states the piece counts that go with the grades. ### Papers in the gun cabinet? No. Separate, in the document cabinet. The firearm stays attributable even if a compartment stands open. ### Where are the expensive historical pieces? In the overview of the most valuable weapons, with the profiles of the individual lots. --- # Securing seed plates: the metal is the key, the photo of it is the leak > Secure seed plates: do not photograph them, not in the cloud, fireproof and apart from everyday clutter. The plate is the access. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/seed-platten-hardware-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A metal plate with the words that open a fortune is a key, not a collector's piece for the display case. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), it stands at the edge of that world, because people put it next to coins and then photograph it. ## What you do not do You do not photograph the plate. You do not upload it to a cloud, not into an email, not into a chat window. You do not say the wording in passing. A backup that sits online is not a backup, but a copy for other people. ## Where to put it Fireproof, separate from the computer and from the drawer with the coins, in a place you can find again and that not every guest sees. A second plate, if you keep one, lies in another place, not in the same cabinet. The heirs must know the place, without the wording standing on a note on the refrigerator. The note with the directions does not contain the words. ## Fire and loss A fire that eats paper also eats a poorly chosen copy. Metal survives more than paper. It does not survive heat without limit. You do not put it next to the boiler, and not into the one bag you lose when you travel. ## Häufige Fragen ### A photo as a backup? No. No photo, no cloud, no email. ### Next to the coins? No. A burglary that takes the coins then takes the key as well. ### A second copy? In another place, also without a digital transcription, and the heirs know the place. --- # Security for collectors: which protection fits which collection > Security for collectors: certified safe, climate or room. Kensington 2019: £25 million in the judgment, £50 million in the early report. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A collection leaves the house in three ways. Someone takes it. Time eats it. Or the person themselves becomes the target, at the door, with the demand to open the safe. The certified safe covers the first way, and that one only if the piece fits inside and the box matches the sum. Security for collectors means: protect the piece according to its physics. Small and easy to sell, into the anchored safe. Sensitive to light, moisture and heat, in the place the material can stand. Larger than any box: room, sightline, anchoring, insurance policy. Weapons have a duty of their own. At the edge are pieces where the law comes before the safe. ## What actually happened in houses December 2019, Kensington. Tamara Ecclestone was in Lapland, the house was cleared out. The early report named £50 million. The conviction in November 2021 put the gang's series at £26 million. The largest single haul was this house, at £25 million. The same proceedings include the house of Frank Lampard. The £50 million is the early report. The £25 million is the figure from the judgment. On 5 October 1967 masked armed men entered the villa of Willis H. du Pont in Coconut Grove, tied the couple up and took thousands of coins. The New York Times wrote in March 1968 of a robbery on the order of 2 million dollars of that time. Part of it came back against a ransom. On the night of 3 to 4 October 2016 armed men attacked Kim Kardashian at the Hôtel de Pourtalès in Paris. She was in the room. That is robbery of the person, in the same hour in which a safe no longer decides anything. In December 2005 Henry Moore's "Reclining Figure" disappeared from the foundation grounds in Much Hadham. 2.1 tonnes, in the reports around £3 million. The police assume the bronze was melted down and sold for around £1,500 as scrap. The grounds belong to the foundation. Size alone does not protect when the metal has a scrap price. For your own bronze in the garden, that is set out at [Garden bronzes](/artikel/gartenbronzen-sichern). ## What the radar names in Germany In the local EinbruchsRadar, as of August 2026, there are 6,713 offences. 1,323 of them have a loot list. Jewellery stands in 385 cases, watches in 217. Coins appear in about 10 reports, weapons in about 14. Cash is the most frequent item. A residential burglary in June 2026 names jewellery, cash, watches and coins together at 100,000 euros. Where a watch value is given, about 24 cases, the median is about 3,000 euros. The highest named watch value is 200,000 euros. Watches, jewellery and coins therefore have a German picture drawn from police reports. The individual texts say what of that belongs in the safe and what time destroys anyway. ## Where the big cases sit somewhere else Trading cards: the documented haul in 2025 sits in a shop in Cincinnati, 113,650 dollars. Further documented cases are shops. For the home the same physics applies once the cards are there: [Pokémon cards](/artikel/pokemon-sammelkarten-sichern), [sports cards](/artikel/sport-sammelkarten-sichern). Wine: Legend Cellars lost wine from customer compartments of a commercial warehouse, 2.7 million dollars, a former employee was convicted. The French Laundry lost bottles from the restaurant. In September 2026 more than 3,000 bottles of Barolo were missing at the Conterno Fantino winery. A home cellar is a different door. The rules for that are with the [wine collection](/artikel/weinsammlung-sichern). ## Papers, grade, anchoring The home contents policy replaces a collection only up to the sum the contract actually names for valuables. Which grade goes with that is in the guide [Insurance sum and security grade](/artikel/s2-tresor-versicherungssumme). Cash and valuables are separate there: [Insurance of valuables](/artikel/tresor-versicherung-bargeld). A safe two people can carry out is a piece of furniture: [Anchor the certified safe](/artikel/tresor-verankern). Invoices, certificates and the inventory do not sit in the same box as the pieces: [Fire-resistant document safe](/artikel/feuerfester-tresor-dokumente). How an ordinary burglary empties the known places in minutes: [How burglars go about it](/artikel/so-gehen-einbrecher-vor). The address of the collection, the photo of the open safe and the inventory do not belong in the same post. If you wear the good watch on your wrist through the city, you show that more may be lying at home. ## A hundred collections, five decisions Each of the following pieces has its own text. The decision before that is always the same. Does it fit in a box without spoiling in there? Does it spoil from light, dryness or heat, even without a thief? Is it larger than any safe? Is it a weapon, with a duty instead of an opinion? Does the limit lie in the law, in the origin, or in the piece being a key? ## Watches, jewellery, stones Small, known, a price at once. The anchored safe, the papers in a second place, the everyday piece not as a badge of the collection. - [Securing wristwatches: collection in the safe, everyday piece off the wrist](/artikel/armbanduhren-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing pocket watches: keep case, chain and rate certificate apart](/artikel/taschenuhren-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing a jewellery collection: the most frequent item in the EinbruchsRadar](/artikel/schmucksammlung-sichern) - [Securing loose gemstones: small, unmounted, no second chance](/artikel/lose-edelsteine-sichern) - [Securing coloured diamonds: the price sits in the colour, the papers prove it](/artikel/farbdiamanten-sichern) - [Securing pearls: dry, they go blind, damp, they go soft](/artikel/perlen-sichern) - [Securing Fabergé and enamel boxes: the surface cracks, the name draws](/artikel/faberge-emaildosen-sichern) - [Securing snuff boxes: lid, hinge and the patina inside](/artikel/schnupftabakdosen-sichern) - [Securing jade: impact, oil and the origin you do not appraise](/artikel/jade-sammlung-sichern) ## Coins, notes, paper money Metal goes into the pocket, paper fades. Both want one line per piece, and the receipts do not sit with the metal. - [Securing gold coins: the home invasion that became a ransom](/artikel/goldmuenzen-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing silver coins: tonne-weight starts small and becomes a crate](/artikel/silbermuenzen-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing ancient coins: patina is the value, cleaning is the damage](/artikel/antike-muenzen-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing banknotes: paper, light and the temptation to see them as money](/artikel/banknoten-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing historical securities: the paper is dead, the collector's price lives](/artikel/historische-wertpapiere-sichern) ## Paper, image, sound Light, acid and a hot box. The portfolio is often the protection, the dry safe the damage. - [Securing stamps: gum, light and an album that is too quick under the arm](/artikel/briefmarken-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing postcards: view, handwriting and the card that turns acidic](/artikel/postkarten-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing sports cards: the slab is small, the photo on the net is the map to it](/artikel/sport-sammelkarten-sichern) - [Securing Pokémon cards: the shop case is documented, the living room stays the same physics](/artikel/pokemon-sammelkarten-sichern) - [Securing stickers and non-sport cards: paper that sticks and fades](/artikel/sticker-sammelkarten-sichern) - [Securing comics: the spine breaks before the burglar arrives](/artikel/comics-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing original comic art: a sheet that does not exist a second time](/artikel/comic-originalzeichnungen-sichern) - [Securing autographs and letters: the ink is the price, the light takes it away](/artikel/autogramme-briefe-sichern) - [Securing books and first editions: the dust jacket is a piece of its own](/artikel/buecher-erstausgaben-sichern) - [Securing manuscripts: a sheet nobody can reprint](/artikel/manuskripte-sichern) - [Securing music manuscripts: ink, light and a sheet that exists once](/artikel/musikhandschriften-sichern) - [Securing drawings and watercolours: paper that does not forgive light](/artikel/zeichnungen-aquarelle-sichern) - [Securing photographs: print, negative and file are three pieces](/artikel/fotografien-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing prints and graphics: edition, number and the sheet that creases](/artikel/grafik-drucke-sichern) - [Securing film posters: folded is one state, flattening afterwards another](/artikel/filmplakate-sichern) - [Securing animation cels: film that sticks and paint that migrates](/artikel/animationscels-sichern) - [Securing maps and globes: the sheet flat, the sphere safe from impact](/artikel/landkarten-globen-sichern) - [Securing paintings: light and climate first, the certified safe is usually too small](/artikel/gemaelde-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing records: heat warps the disc, the sleeve is half of it](/artikel/schallplatten-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing shellac and cylinders: it breaks as soon as it is knocked](/artikel/schellack-walzen-sichern) - [Securing film stock: nitrate does not belong in the flat next to the heating](/artikel/filmmaterial-sichern) ## Bottles and tobacco Upright, dark, cool, know the fill level. A dry certified safe is the wrong place here. - [Securing a wine collection: temperature, position and the cellar that is not your living room](/artikel/weinsammlung-sichern) - [Securing a whisky collection: fill level, light and the bottle that stands](/artikel/whisky-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing Cognac and spirits: the old bottle stands in the dark](/artikel/cognac-spirituosen-sichern) - [Securing champagne: pressure in the bottle, quiet on the shelf](/artikel/champagner-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing cigars: hold the humidity without turning the cabinet into a mould box](/artikel/zigarren-sammlung-sichern) ## Figures, toys, fashion Card and condition are the price. Sealed stays sealed. Worn is a different piece. - [Securing surprise-egg figures: insert, colour and the closed capsule](/artikel/ueberraschungsei-figuren-sichern) - [Securing action figures in the original packaging: the card is the price](/artikel/action-figures-ovp-sichern) - [Securing a LEGO collection: the sealed box is a different piece from the build](/artikel/lego-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing PEZ and fast-food toys: the dispenser, the slip, the bag](/artikel/pez-fastfood-spielzeug-sichern) - [Securing a sneaker collection: the box, the sole and the pair you do not wear](/artikel/sneaker-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing toy cars: the original box creases, the paint chips](/artikel/spielzeugautos-sichern) - [Securing Barbie and dolls: the dress fades, the box presses](/artikel/barbie-puppen-sichern) - [Securing Steiff and plush: moth, button and the button that is missing](/artikel/steiff-pluesch-sichern) - [Securing sealed board games: the film is the condition](/artikel/brettspiele-versiegelt-sichern) - [Securing video games and consoles: the packaging, the battery, the console](/artikel/videospiele-konsolen-sichern) - [Securing licensed figures: the card, the figure, the variant](/artikel/lizenzfiguren-sichern) - [Securing handbags: leather dries, everyone knows the model](/artikel/handtaschen-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing furs: moth, cold and the species-protection paper](/artikel/pelze-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing couture and historical textiles: moth, light and the fold that breaks](/artikel/couture-textilien-sichern) - [Securing costumes: fabric, light and the question of who wore it](/artikel/kostueme-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing perfume bottles: the contents eat the stopper, the glass splinters](/artikel/parfumflakons-sichern) - [Securing lighters: petrol out, do not stack a fire source in the certified safe](/artikel/feuerzeuge-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing fountain pens: ink dries up, nib and body stay separable](/artikel/fuellfederhalter-sammlung-sichern) ## In the room What does not fit in the box is secured by the door, the view from the street and the insurance policy, piece by piece. - [Securing sculptures in the house: plinth, impact and the piece nobody packs](/artikel/skulpturen-im-haus-sichern) - [Securing garden bronzes: the scrap price has already eaten a Moore figure](/artikel/gartenbronzen-sichern) - [Securing design furniture: the piece is the room, the label the proof](/artikel/designmoebel-sichern) - [Securing designer lights: cable, shade and the one lamp everyone knows](/artikel/designerleuchten-sichern) - [Securing pianos and grands: climate, lock and the lid that stays open](/artikel/klaviere-fluegel-sichern) - [Securing violins and bows: the bow is often the more expensive piece](/artikel/geigen-boegen-sichern) - [Securing guitars: neck, humidity and the stand in the passageway](/artikel/gitarren-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing classic cars: the parking spot is the certified safe, the key a second piece](/artikel/oldtimer-sichern) - [Securing classic motorcycles: lighter than the car, the same key](/artikel/klassische-motorraeder-sichern) - [Securing collector bicycles: light, expensive, and the cellar is already full of everyday bikes](/artikel/sammlerfahrraeder-sichern) - [Securing a model railway: the layout stays, the box with the rare wagons goes](/artikel/modellbahn-anlage-sichern) - [Securing pinball, jukebox and arcade: heavy, loud, and the back panel open](/artikel/flipper-jukebox-arcade-sichern) - [Securing longcase clocks: the case stays, the movement and the weights go](/artikel/standuhren-sichern) - [Securing petroliana and enamel signs: enamel chips, the nail rusts](/artikel/petroliana-emailleschilder-sichern) - [Securing porcelain and ceramics: the impact is the damage, the vitrine the stage](/artikel/porzellan-keramik-sichern) - [Securing collector glass: Lalique and the class that splinters at the rim](/artikel/sammlerglas-sichern) - [Securing carpets: moth, light and the roll that creases](/artikel/teppiche-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing ship models: the rigging gathers dust, the mast breaks](/artikel/schiffsmodelle-sichern) - [Securing a camera collection: rangefinder, bellows and the lens cap that is missing](/artikel/kamerasammlung-sichern) - [Securing a lens collection: glass, fungus and the number on the ring](/artikel/objektivsammlung-sichern) - [Securing scientific instruments: scale, lens and the brass you do not polish](/artikel/wissenschaftliche-instrumente-sichern) - [Securing silver and cutlery: sulphur tarnishes it, the drawer is too light](/artikel/silber-besteck-sichern) - [Securing aviation pieces: the badge is small, the propeller is a room](/artikel/aviation-sammlung-sichern) ## Weapons and hunting Here the cabinet is a duty. New cabinets sit at least at resistance grade 0 under EN 1143-1. Piece counts and the existing-stock protection for heirs are in the guide [Gun cabinet grade 0 and 1](/artikel/waffenschrank-klasse-0-1), the individual auction pieces at [the most valuable weapons](/artikel/wertvollste-waffen). - [Securing a firearms collection: the cabinet is required, the papers are the price](/artikel/schusswaffen-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing edged weapons: the sabre is often not a gun-cabinet case, and sometimes a legal case](/artikel/blankwaffen-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing armour: weight, rust and the question of whether the piece is complete](/artikel/ruestungen-sichern) - [Securing fishing and hunting gear: the rod is long, the reel is small](/artikel/angel-jagdgeraet-sammlung-sichern) ## Nature and origin You leave patina alone. You clear origin, species protection and export with the authority before you buy, clean or take a piece across the border. - [Securing minerals: dust, impact and the specimen that crumbles](/artikel/mineralien-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing fossils: the piece breaks, the find spot is a legal question](/artikel/fossilien-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing meteorites: rust, cut face and the certificate](/artikel/meteoriten-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing amber: it dries, it burns, it is light](/artikel/bernstein-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing insect cases and herbaria: feeding damage, light and protected species](/artikel/insektenkaesten-herbarien-sichern) - [Securing netsuke: ivory and wood are not the same law](/artikel/netsuke-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing orders and medals: ribbon, pin and the question of who the piece belonged to](/artikel/orden-medaillen-sichern) - [Securing archaeological objects: without origin, the purchase is the problem](/artikel/archaeologische-objekte-sichern) - [Securing ivory and CITES: the paper decides, not the age you think you can see](/artikel/elfenbein-cites-sichern) - [Securing taxidermy: moth, dust and protected animals](/artikel/taxidermie-sammlung-sichern) - [Securing antiques: export is a question of its own, the cellar a damage of its own](/artikel/antiquitaeten-ausfuhr-sichern) ## Keys that look like collector's pieces A typewriter and a prop are things in the house. A cipher machine and a seed plate are keys: no photo, no storage place on the net, the second plate in another place. - [Securing typewriters and early computers: dust, battery and the rare machine](/artikel/schreibmaschinen-fruehe-rechner-sichern) - [Securing film props: the origin is the price, the object is often a stand-in](/artikel/filmrequisiten-sichern) - [Securing cipher machines: the device, the rotors, the legal grey zone](/artikel/chiffriermaschinen-sichern) - [Securing seed plates: the metal is the key, the photo of it is the leak](/artikel/seed-platten-hardware-sichern) ## Häufige Fragen ### Does every collection fit in a certified safe? Wine, cigars, paper, fur and film spoil in a hot, dry box. A grand piano, a classic car and a garden bronze do not fit inside. The certified safe is the place for what is small and has an immediate price: watch, jewellery, coin, card. ### Which known cases are homes? Kensington in December 2019 and Coconut Grove on 5 October 1967 are houses. The night of 3 to 4 October 2016 at the Hôtel de Pourtalès is robbery of the person. Much Hadham 2005 is the foundation grounds. Cincinnati 2025 is a shop. The big wine cases sit in warehouse, restaurant and winery. ### Where do the invoice and the inventory sit? Not in the same box as the collection and not in the post that shows the room. The fire-resistant document safe takes the sheets. The policy gets the list before you set the grade of the safe. --- # Securing silver and flatware: sulfur tarnishes, the drawer is too light > Secure silver: not in sulfurous cardboard, flatware case not in the sideboard by the door, keep a piece count. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/silber-besteck-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Silver tarnishes on cardboard, rubber, and some woods, and a flatware case is exactly the drawer a burglary takes because it looks valuable. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits with jewelry and coins, only bulkier. ## What breaks without a thief Sulfur, damp, a "silver dip" that takes engraving and gilding with it. You do not polish as a precaution when the patina or the gilding belongs to the piece. You store it dry, in material that does not let silver tarnish, not in the cardboard that already smells. ## When someone comes The case in the sideboard is known. The rare case and the few old spoons with a maker's mark go in the anchored cabinet once the sum requires it. The bulk of the everyday flatware can stay in the sideboard, clearly separated on the list, so a loss does not turn everything into a collector's piece. ## The folder Pieces and count, maker's mark as a photo, proof for the old sets. "Flatware for twelve" is one line only when it is a set and not twelve different spoons. ## Häufige Fragen ### Polish the silver? Only if the surface can take it. Do not rub off gilding and engraving. ### In the sideboard? The everyday silver, yes. The documented old set in the cabinet. ### Cardboard in the case? If it lets silver tarnish, out. Store dry and in suitable material. --- # Securing silver coins: the ton-weight starts small and becomes a crate > Secure silver coins: avoid tarnish from sulfur, anchor heavy boxes, keep the list by denomination. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/silbermuenzen-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Silver is cheaper per piece than gold and, in quantity, quickly turns heavy. A drawer full of thalers you can still lift alone. A box of twenty kilos is the point where anchoring and your back meet. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) silver coins sit next to the gold, with a different kind of damage from the air. ## How they leave The same reports as for coins in general. An offender takes the album, not the single edge lettering. Investment silver in heat-sealed packs is, for him, a crate with a known price. Historical coins without a list you can no longer name afterwards. ## What time does to them Sulfur from cardboard, rubber and some woods makes silver tarnish. Cotton gloves help less than clean holders without PVC. You do not wash a coin bright when the patina belongs to the condition. A damp cellar smells into the tin even when nobody breaks in. ## Where to put them Valuable single pieces in the anchored cabinet, the quantity of investment coins such that the cabinet may take the weight according to the maker. Anchoring is mandatory as soon as the cabinet lies under the weight limit from which it otherwise leaves as a whole. The guide on anchoring says how to do that without losing the certification. ## The papers List by denomination, year and mint mark. For investment coins the count per type is often enough, for collector pieces it is not. Records separate from the metal. The big coin robbery in the house, Coconut Grove 1967, is described under [Gold coins](/artikel/goldmuenzen-sammlung-sichern). Silver lay in the boxes in collections of that kind as well. ## Häufige Fragen ### May silver sit in the cellar? Only dry, and without cardboard that gives off sulfur. Moisture tarnishes it, even without a burglary. ### Is a heavy box already a certified safe? Weight makes carrying it away harder. It replaces neither a resistance grade nor a policy. ### Do I handle every silver coin? By the edge, with clean hands, and do not clean it when the surface is the value. --- # Securing sculptures in the house: plinth, impact, and the piece nobody packs > Securing sculptures: plinth stable, small bronzes not by the door, photo and dimensions on the list. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/skulpturen-im-haus-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A sculpture in the house stands on a plinth that someone brushes past. Small enough for a bag, it is loot. Large enough for the hall, it is a tip-over. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), this is the room, not the certified safe compartment. Garden bronzes have their own text, because there the scrap price is enough: [Garden bronzes](/artikel/gartenbronzen-sichern). ## What breaks without a thief Impact, a wobbly plinth, dry heating air on wood and ivory substitute, a patina that you polish bright. You take hold at the body, not at the thin extremity. The plinth does not stand in a passageway. ## When someone comes Small bronzes go along. Large ones stay and get knocked over. You do not put the small, expensive piece on the sideboard by the door. An alarm system and a door that is not the display cabinet. The insurance policy knows the dimensions, the material, and a photo from all sides. ## The folder Artist, title, material, dimensions, plinth yes or no, damage, origin, proof. ## Häufige Fragen ### Into the certified safe? Only if it fits without a projecting part breaking. You secure most sculptures in place. ### Clean the patina? No. Patina is often the condition. ### Plinth fixed? Yes, and not in a passageway. The bump is the common damage. --- # Securing a sneaker collection: the box, the sole, and the pair you do not wear > Secure sneakers: dark, dry, keep the original box, separate worn pairs from dead pairs. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/sneaker-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A limited pair of shoes is fabric, glue, and a box. Worn, it is a different pair than dead in the box. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), sneakers sit with what is too big for a drawer and too sensitive for the heating cellar. ## What breaks without a thief Soles yellow, glue lets go, fabric fades, the box warps in the damp and creases in a stack. You store them dark and dry, with little pressure on the box, not in the plastic bag that sweats. A pair you wear, you do not list as dead. Shoe trees or acid-free paper in the shoe, depending on what holds the shape without staining the sole. ## When someone comes A shelf full of original boxes on the glass wall is a display. Rare pairs do not stand there. They stand in an unobtrusive cupboard or, if the sum requires it, in a locked room, not in the hallway. A pair is not a piece of jewelry for the small certified safe, unless it is so small and so expensive that it fits. Usually the room is the protection: door, sightline, insurance. ## The folder Model, size, dead or worn, condition of the box, proof. Photo of the side, the sole, and the box label. The policy needs these lines once you insure more than a hobby. ## Häufige Fragen ### In the certified safe or in the cupboard? Usually in the dry, dark cupboard, because the pair does not fit in a small certified safe. The room and the policy are the protection then. ### Throw the box away? Only if the collector price does not matter to you. For these pairs the box belongs with the piece. ### Undo a yellow sole? Do not experiment with household remedies. Record the condition in the list before you apply anything. --- # Securing toy cars: the original box creases, the paint chips > Securing toy cars: do not crush the box, keep loose cars shock-free, put rare numbers on the list. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/spielzeugautos-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A toy car in the box is cardboard plus paint. Pressure from above creases the box, a loose car loses its mirror at the first knock. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this sits with LEGO and the Action Figures: the packaging is often the piece. ## Storage Dark, dry, little weight on the cardboard, loose cars so that nothing rubs the paint. A cellar only with clearance from the floor. ## When someone comes A crate is toys, a rare number with a readable name is a target among collectors. It does not sit on the stack by the door. This does not show up in EinbruchsRadar. The list records the expensive numbers with proof, the rest as a crate. ## The folder Maker, number, original packaging or loose, proof for the expensive ones, photo of the box. ## Häufige Fragen ### Open the box? Then it is loose. The price of the original packaging is a different one after that. ### Cellar? Only dry, and not on the concrete. ### Does this need a certified safe? The single rare number, if the sum is to be insured. The crate of children's cars, no. --- # Securing sports cards: the capsule is small, the photo on the net is the map to it > Secure sports cards: slabs cool and dry, raw cards flat, no item list with an address on the internet. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/sport-sammelkarten-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A graded sports card is a small piece of plastic with a public price. It fits in a jacket. The raw card next to it creases as soon as someone pulls it from the sleeve. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) cards sit with what is liquid, even if the German radar does not yet call them by name. ## How they leave What is documented in recent years is above all shops, not living rooms. For your house the physics still holds: a binder of slabs is loot that anyone who reads the surface knows. If you photograph the top pieces and post the room or the city with them, you hand over the address sketch at the same time. The list stays with you. ## What time does to them Raw cards warp in damp and bleach in light. Slabs protect the corner and not against a fire. A safe that stays hot long after a fire warps the plastic. You store dry, dark, upright, or so that the capsule does not bear on the corner, and you do not put a card loose under books. ## Where they go The expensive tier into the anchored safe. The mass of duplicates can sit in an inconspicuous box whose loss you can bear. Certificates and the grades from the grading firms belong on the list with the certificate number. The number is the proof, not a post under your name. ## The papers Purchase receipt, certificate number, a photo of your own of the capsule. Digitally somewhere other than the home. The policy needs the lines once the sum falls out of the flat limit. ## Häufige Fragen ### Do sports cards show up in EinbruchsRadar? Not in the local snapshot through August 2026 as loot of their own. The physics is still that of a small, known thing. ### Does the capsule protect against theft? It protects the corner. It is easier to carry off than an album from earlier, because the price is on the holder. ### May I show the collection online? The card, yes. The home, the quantity, and the city with it, no. --- # Securing longcase clocks: the case stays, the movement and the weights go > Secure longcase clocks: keep the case stable, secure weights and pendulum for a move, note the movement number. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/standuhren-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A longcase clock is furniture with a movement. In a short burglary the case often stays standing. Pendulum, weights, and a signed dial are the parts that go missing or get bent. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you secure the movement and the stability. ## What breaks without a thief Dryness splits the case, a sloping floor throws the pendulum out of beat, sun on the veneer. You do not stand it against the radiator wall, and not where the room door hits it. Before a move you secure the pendulum and the weights, or the movement wrecks itself. ## When someone comes The case is heavy. Small dial parts, and a loose movement you have set beside it "for repair", go with them. The movement stays in the clock or in the locked cabinet, not on the table. You photograph the number. ## The folder Maker of the case, signature of the movement, number, proof, photo of the dial. Case and movement can have two histories. The list says so. ## Häufige Fragen ### Clock against the heating? No. Veneer and rate suffer. ### Secure the pendulum before the move? Yes. Otherwise it strikes the movement. ### Take the dial off and leave it lying? Only if it then lies locked away. On the table it is a small, expensive part. --- # Securing Steiff and plush: moths, the button, and the button that is missing > Securing plush: moth-free, keep the button and the flag, not in tight plastic film, avoid moisture. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/steiff-pluesch-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion On a Steiff animal, the button in the ear is proof, not jewelry to take off. Moths eat the rest. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) plush sits with textiles. ## What time does Moths, moisture, a plastic film that does not breathe, light on the felt. You store it dry, dark, and breathing, and you look for feeding damage. You leave the button and the flag on. If they are missing, that goes on the list before you later tell it as theft damage. ## When someone comes An animal goes under the arm if it is small. The rare one does not lie on the bed by the door. Proof and a photo of the button and the flag stay in the document safe. ## The folder Model, year, button and flag yes or no, proof, photo. ## Häufige Fragen ### Take the button off? No. It is part of the proof. ### In plastic film? Only if it breathes. Otherwise the fur goes musty. ### Moths? Separate it at once and check the cabinet. --- # Securing stickers and Non-Sport cards: paper that sticks and fades > Secure stickers: do not glue them in again, store albums in the dark, separate full albums from loose packs. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/sticker-sammelkarten-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A full sticker album is paper, glue, and nostalgia in one volume. A loose glossy sticker curls as soon as it lies next to the heater. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), this belongs with paper that has a collector price, truly high only for a few images. ## What breaks without a thief Gluing them in later warps the page and shines differently from the original. Light eats the red tones. Moisture loosens the gum. You store albums upright, not in full sun, not in a box on the damp floor. Full albums and open packs stay two stocks, because the price often hangs on the unopened pack. ## When someone comes For most albums the offender stays indifferent. For the few expensive sets, sealed or complete, the same applies as for other cards: small, known, light. They do not sit on the children's shelf at eye level toward the door. They sit with the other small valuables in the cabinet, if the sum allows it. ## The folder Year, publisher, complete or with gaps, sealed or glued. For an expensive set, the receipt. You describe the rest as a box of year groups, so that water damage has a number and not a tale. ## Häufige Fragen ### Should I glue in the missing stickers? Only if the album is yours for playing. As a collector's piece, every new glue changes the condition. ### Are open packs still worth anything? Usually less than the sealed pack. In the list you keep the two apart. ### Does a Panini album need a certified safe? An ordinary album, no. A documented, expensive, sealed set sits with the other small valuables. --- # Securing pocket watches: keep case, chain and rate certificate apart > Secure pocket watches: store case, dial and rate certificate apart, avoid moisture, no casket in the hall. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/taschenuhren-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A pocket watch is small, old and often worth more through the name on the movement than through the gold of the case. It sits well in a hand and just as well in a jacket pocket on the way out of the house. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it belongs with the pieces a cabinet can take. ## How it leaves the house Pocket watches rarely appear in police reports under their own word. They fall under watches, and watches are frequent in the radar. Anyone who photographs a display case in the living room with the lids open and tags the room gives the location away at the same time. Chains and chatelaines beside them are small lots of their own, which vanish in the same drawer. ## What time does to it Enamel chips with changes in temperature. Steel shows rust on the stem when the box sits damp. A cabinet that is too dry makes the leather lining and the old glue brittle. You store the watch wound or run down the way the watchmaker says for this movement, and you do not pack an acid-bearing foam insert under it. ## Where to put it Several watches in a shallow drawer, each with its number on a slip underneath, the slip as a copy in the document cabinet. The cabinet is anchored as soon as the weight lies under the limit from which it can be carried away without a fixing. You name the sum to the insurer as a list, not as a round household-contents lump sum. ## The papers Rate certificate, repair history and the name of the previous owner make the price when there is a signature. These sheets do not lie in the watch box. A photo of the movement with the cover open, taken once and sharp, does not later replace a certificate, but it helps you recognize the piece. ## Häufige Fragen ### Do pocket watches lie better flat? The case does, so enamel and glass do not stand on an edge. The movement itself follows the watchmaker's instruction, not a general rule for every caliber. ### Does the chain belong with it? Yes, when it belongs to the piece. On the list it stands as its own line, otherwise it is missing in the claim even though it lay in the same box. ### Is a casket in a cabinet compartment enough? Only if the compartment is a certified safe and the papers lie elsewhere. A wooden box in the wardrobe is a drawer. --- # Securing taxidermy: moths, dust, and protected animals > Securing taxidermy: store it tight and moth-free, check species protection, not every mount is an allowed collectible. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/taxidermie-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A mount is skin, hair, and an armature. Moths and dust work on it, and some animals you may not own. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) the same limit applies as for [ivory](/artikel/elfenbein-cites-sichern) and for the [insect cases](/artikel/insektenkaesten-herbarien-sichern). ## The limit Before the purchase you ask whether the species and the papers allow the piece. This text does not say how anyone obtains mounts. ## Storing what you lawfully have Tight against moths, dry, not in full sun, not in the open hall where everyone walks into it. Separate an infestation at once. The papers in the document safe. A fallen mount often cannot be saved, so keep it standing firm and not by the door. ## Häufige Fragen ### Is every old mount allowed? No. Check the species and the papers, before the purchase. ### Moths? Separate it at once, check the room. ### By the door? No. Knocks and curiosity are the damage. --- # Securing rugs: moth, light and the roll that creases > Secure rugs: not in full sun, a roll without a crease, moth checks, size and knots on the list. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/teppiche-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A rug lies in the way or on the wall. Sun bleaches the side toward the window, moths work from below, a wrong roll creases the warp. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is a large textile. ## What gets ruined without a thief Light, damp from below, moths, a roll with too small a radius, tape on the fringe. You rotate a floor rug on a rhythm you keep, so the same band does not always bleach. You look under the corner. Storage dark, dry, with some air, not in plastic film on the concrete. ## When someone comes Heavy, but it can be rolled. A small, expensive rug goes under the arm. It does not lie as a runner in the hall when its price exceeds that of a piece of furniture. It lies in the locked room or, rolled without a crease, where it is not taken for the pickup box. The big jewelry thieves often leave rugs behind. Your damage then is moth and light, not the night. ## The folder Size, material, provenance, damage, receipt. A photo of the whole surface and of a corner with the structure. The policy names it as soon as it turns from furnishing into a collector's piece. ## Häufige Fragen ### Roll it in film? Not in tight film on the damp floor. Air and dryness, radius large enough. ### Floor rug against the sun? Rotate it, and do not leave the expensive side permanently at the south window. ### Is a rug burglary loot? A small, expensive one, yes. Haste often leaves the large ones. You still need the list. --- # Securing surprise-egg figures: insert, colour and the closed capsule > Secure surprise eggs: insert with the piece, not in the sun, do not crack closed capsules. A certified safe only when the sum requires it. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/ueberraschungsei-figuren-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A figure from a surprise egg is small, colourful, and usually a toy. A few motifs with a complete insert, or in the unopened capsule, reach prices in the collector trade that go beyond the sweets. I am not setting an auction record in the league of a watch here. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is the proof that the world reaches down to the small, and that protection has to follow the sum, not the aura. ## How it leaves A box of figures is a toy to most thieves. The few documented top pieces are still small and go out in the same drawer as other small stuff. You do not mix them with jewellery. Someone looking for the rare figure looks in collector circles, not in the police report from next door. Our radar does not name them. ## What time does to them Sun bleaches the colour. Plasticizer makes the plastic sticky. The insert creases and then is missing, and with it often the larger part of the price. Closed capsules stay closed. An opened figure and the insert sit together in a sleeve, dark, cool, not on the windowsill. ## Where they go As long as the sum is small, a quiet drawer, dark, and a list of the few expensive numbers is enough. If the sum grows into the range you want to insure, those numbers move into the safe, the insert as a copy into the document cabinet. The rest of childhood may stay visible. ## Häufige Fragen ### Does a surprise-egg figure need a certified safe? The single ordinary figure, no. The few pieces with an insert and a documented price, yes, once the sum is to be insured. ### Open the capsule? If the price hangs on the closed capsule, no. ### Does something like this show up in the radar? No. The reports name jewellery, watches, cash, rarely coins. You have to keep your own list. --- # Securing video games and consoles: the box, the battery, the console > Securing games: do not open sealed cartridges, take batteries out of old devices, store boxes dry. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/videospiele-konsolen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A sealed game and a console with a rechargeable battery are two risks. One is cardboard. The other can leak. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you separate the two. ## What time does Sun fades the cardboard. A battery that stays in the device leaks and eats the contacts. You take rechargeable packs and batteries out of devices in storage. What is sealed stays sealed. Discs and cartridges sit dry, not in the window. ## When someone comes Consoles and small cartridges go easily, a shelf full of cases more slowly. The expensive sealed pieces and the one rare console do not stand by the door. Proof on the list, box uncrushed. ## The folder System, title, sealed or loose, with original packaging or without, proof. Device and game are two lines. ## Häufige Fragen ### Leave the batteries in? No, when the device is in storage. A leak is damage without a thief. ### Open the game? Then it is no longer sealed. ### Console in the certified safe? If it fits and the price calls for it. Otherwise locked, and not by the door. --- # Securing a wine collection: temperature, position and the cellar that is not your living room > Secure wine: store it still and cool, note the label and fill level. Big thefts sit in the restaurant and the warehouse, not in the bank-vault tale. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/weinsammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Wine dies from heat, from light, and from a cork that dries out because the bottle stands instead of lying. A certified safe is the wrong room for that, unless it is expressly a climate cabinet and not a steel box for files. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) wine is the example where the certified safe can spoil the piece. ## What breaks without a thief Fluctuating heat, vibration, light on the cork, a cellar that turns into a sauna in summer. You store lying down, dark, still. You write down the fill level and the label before, in three years, you no longer know which bottle was drunk and which was only moved. ## When someone comes The big documented cases do not sit in the nightstand. Legend Cellars, as a warehouse, lost wine from customer lockers worth 2,7 million dollars, and a former employee was convicted. The French Laundry lost bottles from the restaurant. In September 2026 more than 3.000 bottles of Barolo were missing at the Conterno Fantino winery. For your house that means: a visible rack on the glass wall, a door without a lock, a list on the internet with the vintages. The bottles with a price you want replaced do not lie on that rack. They lie in the still, locked, cool room. ## The folder Winery, vineyard site, vintage, bottle count, fill level, receipt. The policy as a named collection, once the sum leaves the flat limit. A photo of the label helps tell an emptied bottle from a stolen one. ## Häufige Fragen ### Wine in the certified safe? Only in a climate cabinet built for bottles. A file safe is too dry, too tight, and often too warm. ### Lie or stand? Lie, as long as a cork is in it, so that it does not dry out. ### Do wine thefts show up in the radar? Not in the local snapshot through August 2026. The documented big cases are warehouse, restaurant, and winery. --- # Securing a whisky collection: fill level, light and the bottle that stands > Secure whisky: upright, dark, note the fill level, rare bottles not as a home bar toward the street. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/whisky-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion Whisky stands, it does not lie. Light and warmth work on the contents, a falling fill level is often age and a leak, not a secret. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits beside the wine, with the bottle in the other position. ## What gets ruined without a thief Sun on the shoulder of the bottle, a heating pipe beside it, a cork or a capsule that no longer seals. You store upright, dark, cool, quiet. You mark the fill level on the list, not with a felt pen on the glass, when the glass belongs to the piece. A photo of the shoulder is enough. ## When someone comes A home bar in the living room is an invitation. The rare bottlings do not stand there. They stand locked away, inconspicuous, and the list does not lie on the fridge. In the Radar, whisky does not appear as loot of its own. The bottle goes with the other alcohol or stays standing, depending on the haste. Your damage is the one bottle whose price you can no longer prove. ## The folder Distillery, bottling, year, fill level, receipt. Opened or closed. An opened bottle is a different piece. The policy, one by one, as soon as the price calls for it. ## Häufige Fragen ### Store whisky lying down? No. Upright, dark, cool. ### Write the fill level on the bottle? On the list and in a photo. Not on the glass, when the bottle itself is the collector's piece. ### Open and closed on one line? No. What has been drunk is less. The list separates that. --- # Securing scientific instruments: scale, lens, and the brass you do not polish > Securing instruments: leave the brass patina, keep lenses dry, small devices off the windowsill. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/wissenschaftliche-instrumente-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A microscope, a sextant, a balance: brass, glass, a scale. If you polish the brass to a high shine, you often erase the patina that proves the age. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), this is a technical piece between the certified safe and the shelf. ## What breaks without a thief Moisture on the optics, a windowsill in the sun, a scale that you rub with the wrong agent, a case whose hinge breaks. You store dry, lenses with a cap or in the case, brass unpolished, as long as the patina belongs to the piece. ## When someone comes Small devices go along in the drawer. They do not lie among the tools, where they look like junk and still get taken or thrown away. Documented pieces in the cabinet or in their own case, locked. The invoice in the document cabinet. ## The folder Device, maker, number, accessories as their own lines, proof, photo of the scale. Missing accessories are listed as missing. ## Häufige Fragen ### Polish the brass? No, if the patina belongs to the condition. Dust yes, high shine no. ### Take a lens apart yourself? No. Fungus and adjustment belong in specialist hands. ### List accessories separately? Yes. One eyepiece less is a different price. --- # Securing drawings and watercolors: paper that does not forgive light > Secure drawings: flat, acid-free, dark. No watercolor in a damp folder. Insure the expensive sheets individually. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/zeichnungen-aquarelle-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A drawing is a sheet. A watercolor is paint that can travel when damp. Both like to hang framed in the hall, and the hall is often the brightest place in the apartment. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this belongs with paper. ## What gets ruined without a thief Light, an acidic mat, tape, a damp exterior wall behind the frame. You store flat, acid-free, dark. What you want to show, you show in a frame with the right board, not above the radiator. Behind glass, a climate has already built up more than once when the back was chipboard. ## When someone comes A sheet in the folder is light and looks like paper. Framed in the hall, it is the first thing anyone sees. The expensive sheets do not hang there. They lie in the document cabinet when the format fits and the folder stays dry. The list states size and technique, otherwise someone replaces "a drawing" for you. ## The folder Artist, year, technique, size, provenance, receipt, photo. An existing stain is photographed with it. The policy gets the line as soon as the price falls outside the blanket sum. ## Häufige Fragen ### Framed or in the folder? Show it framed, and not in full sun. Store flat and dark. The expensive sheet has a permanent place, and that place is rarely the hall. ### May a watercolor go in the steel cabinet? Only dry, and not forgotten for years. Damp in the box lets the paint travel. ### What is the provenance? From whom, when, which lot or which dealer. Without that line the sheet is hard to name after a loss. --- # Securing cigars: hold the humidity without turning the cabinet into a mold box > Secure cigars: humidor with controlled humidity, do not dry them in a steel safe, separate stock and rare boxes. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/zigarren-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion A cigar wants humidity in a narrow band. A dry certified safe dries it out, a wet cellar molds it. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is the clearest case in which the wrong certified safe destroys the piece. ## What gets ruined without a thief Too dry, too wet, temperature jumps, a humidor you do not check for months. You measure the humidity with a device you trust, and you replace the source before the box goes musty. Rare boxes stay closed when the price hangs on the seal. ## When someone comes A humidor in the living room is a box with a handle. The everyday box may stand there. The boxes with a receipt and a price stand in the locked room, still in the right climate, not as a substitute in the document safe. In the radar the cigar does not appear. ## The folder Brand, format, whether the box is sealed, receipt. A musty humidor is damage without a burglary, which you record in the list before you throw the contents away or make a claim. ## Häufige Fragen ### Cigars in the certified safe? No, if it is dry. They belong in a humidor whose humidity you measure. ### Living-room humidor? For everyday use, yes. For the rare sealed box, a locked place with the same climate. ### Mold in the box? Then the contents are at risk. Do not move them into the steel cabinet and hope. Lower the humidity, separate the affected pieces. --- # Anchoring a safe: how the cabinet really stays theft-resistant > Anchor a safe under 1,000 kg: which anchors, how deep in concrete, what screed, basement and ceiling can take, and when you may drill yourself. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/tresor-verankern · Stand: 2026-08-18 · Tresorrari Redaktion The short answer: every certified safe under 1,000 kilos belongs fixed into the load-bearing structure, not into the screed and not into the plasterboard wall. You anchor through the factory holes with heavy-duty anchors, typically M10 or M12. The hooks must pass through the screed and sit in the concrete, often 70 to 100 millimeters deep in the load-bearing material. On the basement slab you can usually do this yourself. You do not hang a certified safe from the underside of the ceiling. ## What anchoring hooks actually are The trade says hooks, plugs, heavy-duty anchors, bolts. They mean the same part: a steel bolt that reaches through the floor or rear-wall opening of the certified safe into the building and stops the cabinet being carried off. A certified safe protects by time. This calculation holds only while it stays put. Two people move 150 kilos with a sack truck and a ratchet strap. That is why the VdS recommendation requires a fixed connection for cabinets under 1,000 kilos, and why the anchoring opening is part of the test to [EN 1143-1](/artikel/en-1143-1-pruefung). The material supplied with the safe belongs to the type test. A random plastic plug from a DIY store does not replace it. From one tonne up, a cabinet counts as no longer practical to carry off. Tip-over restraint still makes sense. This is how the anchor works: **Friction fit.** On a bolt anchor (wedge anchor) the tightening torque draws a cone into an expansion sleeve. The sleeve presses against the wall of the drilled hole. Holding force comes from friction in the concrete. **Material bond.** On a bonded anchor (injection mortar plus threaded rod) the mortar sticks the steel and the hole together. It suits holes near an edge, older concrete, and cases where you have to bridge the screed. **Positive lock.** Undercut anchors mill a pocket into the hole. The anchor sits like a barb. Rare in the kit supplied with the safe, usual for specialist fitting in cracked concrete. What people call a hook is almost always the bolt: thread, nut, washer, expansion sleeve. Inside the safe you see only the nut and the washer. The part that holds sits unseen in the concrete. ## Which anchors exist, and which one you use | Anchor | Where it holds | Typical size on the safe | When it is the right choice | |---|---|---|---| | Bolt anchor / wedge anchor | uncracked concrete and approved cracked concrete | M10, M12, less often M16 | Standard in the supplied kit, fast through-fixing | | Bonded anchor (injection mortar + rod) | concrete, solid masonry, many difficult bases | M10 to M16, rod length according to screed thickness | high screed, porous concrete, hole near the edge | | Sleeve anchor | concrete, sometimes solid masonry | M10, M12 | lighter cabinets, not the first choice for certified protection | | Undercut anchor | cracked concrete | M10, M12 | specialist firm, a high duty to prove the fixing | | Frame plug / all-purpose plug | hollow block, aerated concrete | various | not for certified protection. Pull-out force too low | | Wood screw into the joist | load-bearing timber joists only | 8 to 12 mm | only with a substructure down into the joist layer, never into the floorboard alone | The manufacturer instructions name the anchor, not the shelf at the DIY store. If the kit is missing or too short for your screed, you take an approved system of the same size (ETA on the pack), not the next grey plug. Fischer states a setting torque of 45 newton-meters for the FAZ II Plus bolt anchor in M10. That calls for a torque wrench, not feel. Over-tightening wrecks the expansion seat. Under-tightening leaves the cone loose. ## How deep the hooks go Two depths that people mix up. **Embedment depth** is the distance the anchor sits in the load-bearing concrete. Guide figures from fitting instructions and heavy-duty data sheets: often at least 70 millimeters, better 80 to 100 millimeters in the concrete itself. tresorkauf24 states a minimum drill depth of 70 millimeters in the concrete for an M12 threaded rod, plus the figure on the pack. **Drill-hole depth** is greater than the embedment depth. You need room for dust, for the expansion zone, and for the usable length that passes through the safe steel plus the screed. A Fischer M10 bolt anchor in through-fixing calls for drill-hole depths around 105 millimeters. An M12 is more like 120 to 160 millimeters, depending on the variant and the clamping thickness. The pack governs, not this span. The sum almost everyone underestimates: Anchor length = embedment depth in the concrete + screed thickness + steel thickness of the safe base + washer and nut. A 60 millimeter screed plus 80 millimeters of concrete plus 8 millimeters of steel is already a different rod from the short kit that was enough for a test on bare concrete. If the anchor sits only in the screed, it survives a shake test and nothing else. Screed is a leveling layer. It breaks out. Tiles and parquet count toward the usable length, not toward the load-bearing base. You drill through them. The hold is underneath. ## Which floor can take what | Base | Hold | What you do | |---|---|---| | Reinforced concrete slab, basement floor, in-situ concrete | the right base | bolt or bonded anchors through the factory holes, set every point | | Screed on concrete | only the concrete underneath carries the load | choose an anchor long enough, pass through the screed, never end in the screed | | Screed with underfloor heating | load-bearing, but full of pipes | laying plan or thermal image, otherwise move to the solid wall | | Tile, porcelain stoneware on screed | the tile carries nothing | drill through, anchor in the concrete, keep the edge distance to the tile | | Solid brick, sand-lime brick | possible on the wall | drill slowly, anchor into the brick, not into the joint. Bonded anchors are often better | | Perforated brick, aerated concrete, plasterboard | unsuitable for certified protection | another spot or another safe. Special plugs hold pictures, not 80 kilos against a lever | | Floorboards, parquet on joists | only the joist carries the load | substructure into several joists, or a wall of concrete or solid masonry. Never only into a 22 millimeter board | | Hollow floor, office raised floor | often cannot even carry the weight | a structural engineer, or another floor. An anchor in mid-air is decoration | | Waterproofing, black tank, basement outer wall | load-bearing, but the seal is the problem | do not go through the waterproofing. Another spot, a specialist firm | Floor beats wall when both are possible. A crowbar lever works worst downward. Many cabinets have holes in the base and in the rear wall. Where the structure allows both, you set both. Not two out of four. ## Can you do this yourself in the basement? Often yes. The basement is the friendliest place for it: a bare or nearly bare concrete slab, no underfloor heating, short runs for the hammer drill. Conditions that actually count: You can reach the factory holes. Take the shelf out. Do not drill the inner lining. You can move the empty cabinet. Under 80 kilos it is doable with a second person. From 100 to 150 kilos, without lifting gear, it turns athletic, and a cabinet tipped onto a foot is a case for emergency care, not a DIY success. You have an SDS rotary hammer, the right bit, a blow-out pump or a brush plus a vacuum, and a torque wrench. A cordless hammer drill gives up in reinforced concrete and wanders off line. You hit no service line, no black tank, no drain. In an old basement, tap the slab first, use a detector, and if you are unsure, use the plan. You keep a record. A photo of the open holes, of the anchors once set, of the pack, and the date. After a loss the insurer likes to argue about the fitting. A photo ends that argument sooner than a memory. What you do not do yourself: grade I cabinets you can no longer shift. Underfloor heating with no plan. Perforated brick. Any spot where the manufacturer instructions call for a specialist firm. An hour of fitting costs less than an anchor torn out in a claim. If you rent, get consent first, in writing. A few holes in a basement floor can usually be repaired. The question sits under [Safe in a rented home](/fragen/tresor-in-der-mietwohnung). Without drilling, the only path is weight toward 1,000 kilos: [Anchoring without drilling](/artikel/tresor-verankern-ohne-bohren). ## Can you anchor into the ceiling? Three things are called a ceiling, and only one of them is a sound idea. **The reinforced concrete ceiling used as the floor.** In a shell building, the load-bearing slab you stand on is called the ceiling. Yes, that is exactly where the anchor should sit. You go through screed, tile and insulation, and you finish in that slab. That is ordinary, correct floor anchoring. **Hanging the safe from the underside of the ceiling.** No. The holes are meant for downward pressure and for tension against the safe being carried off, not for a cabinet hanging over your head. Leverage, a fall, the wrong load direction. There is no sensible series product for that. **From below, through the basement ceiling, into the flat above.** Almost never. You pierce sound insulation, fire separation, and often someone else's home. The neighbor has a hole in the screed, you have a dispute, and the anchor has an unclear clamping thickness. Mounting high on the wall, just under the ceiling, is wall anchoring. The wall must be concrete or solid masonry, and the cabinet must be built for the rear-wall holes. A light [furniture safe](/artikel/moebeltresor-kaufen) may go there only if the screws pass through the cabinet base into the building, not only into the furniture. If you want the safe to disappear in the plane of the floor, you do not need a ceiling hook. You need a [floor safe](/artikel/bodentresor). If you want it to disappear in the wall: [Installing a wall safe](/artikel/wandtresor-einbauen). ## Plinth, base, raised stand A plinth solves the stooping, not the physics. Manufacturers sell steel bases in the footprint of the cabinet. Hartmann splits this clearly in the plinth instructions: fixing the safe to the plinth is optional, fixing to the rear wall stays mandatory. The cabinet may stand high, and it still has to reach the building. Three clean routes: The anchor passes through the safe and the plinth into the concrete. One connection, full embedment depth. The safe is bolted to the plinth, and the plinth is anchored separately in the concrete. Two connections, both heavy-duty, both to the instructions. The safe stands on the plinth and also passes through the rear wall into the concrete wall. That is exactly what the Hartmann instructions require as mandatory. A home-built timber plinth, a kitchen plinth panel, a trolley: an offender takes the cabinet plus the furniture. The screws have to reach the building. A [small certified safe](/artikel/kleiner-tresor) on a hollow plinth is easier to steal than the same cabinet flat on the slab. Skirting on the wall: the cabinet has to stand flush to the wall, or a gap opens for a lever. Cut the skirting out locally. Do not pull the cabinet off the wall. ## Step by step 1. **Place.** Discreet, usable, on solid structure. Criteria as in the [furniture safe buying guide](/artikel/moebeltresor-kaufen). 2. **Services.** A detector. For heating, the laying plan. If unsure, a thermal image after the system has warmed up. 3. **Mark.** Through the factory holes. No holes of your own in the body. Drilling of your own kills the certificate. 4. **Drill.** Diameter and depth from the anchor pack, not by eye. SDS hammer. If you hit reinforcement, move the hole. Do not force it. 5. **Clean.** Brush, vacuum, blow. Drill dust is the most common reason anchors fail. 6. **Set.** Drive the bolt home, or place mortar from the cartridge and wait out the cure time. Tighten the nut to the stated torque. 7. **Every point.** Not two out of four. Floor and wall, if both are prepared. 8. **Record.** Shake test, photo, pack, date, into the insurance file. What the policy accepts: [Cash in the safe](/artikel/tresor-versicherung-bargeld). ## Claim table | Claim | Category | Origin | |---|---|---| | Certified safes under 1,000 kg belong fixed in place | Fact | VdS recommendation, adopted by insurers; fischer, 16.02.2021 | | The anchoring opening is part of the EN 1143-1 test | Fact | [EN 1143-1 with us](/artikel/en-1143-1-pruefung); the original material belongs to the type test | | Screed alone does not carry the pull-out load | Fact | Manufacturers (Rottner, Zirotec), site practice, Zirotec | | Typical safe kits are M10 or M12, embedment depth in the concrete often 70 to 100 mm | Fact | Fitting instructions; tresorkauf24 states at least 70 mm in the concrete for M12 | | FAZ II Plus M10 setting torque 45 Nm | Fact | fischer FAZ II Plus | | Hartmann: plinth optional, rear-wall fixing mandatory | Fact | Hartmann plinth instructions | | A self-built timber plinth with no through-fixing into the building holds | Rumor | an offender takes the cabinet plus the plinth | | A certified safe can sensibly hang from the underside of the ceiling | Rumor | wrong load direction, not a series case | Which construction comes next: [Safe construction types](/artikel/tresor-bauformen). ## Häufige Fragen ### Does every certified safe have to be anchored? Under 1,000 kg of its own weight, yes, if you want the recognized protection. Manufacturer requirements and most insurers see it that way. Only from one tonne is a cabinet treated as no longer practical to carry off. ### What are anchoring hooks? Steel bolts with a nut and an expansion or bonded part, which pass through the factory opening into the load-bearing component. The visible part is the nut inside the safe. The holding part sits in the concrete. ### How deep must the anchors go into the floor? In load-bearing concrete, often 70 to 100 mm of embedment depth, with a deeper drill hole. Screed, tile and steel sit on top of that. The pack and the safe instructions override every rule of thumb. ### Which anchors are the right ones? The heavy-duty anchors supplied with the safe, or an ETA-approved system of the same size, commonly M10 to M16. Bolt anchors in concrete, bonded anchors where the screed is deep or the base is porous. No plastic plug. ### Can I anchor into screed with underfloor heating? Only with a laying plan or detection, and only if the anchor still ends in the concrete. Otherwise move to the solid wall. A drilled heating pipe costs more than any fitting job. ### Is anchoring only in the screed enough? No. Screed is a leveling layer and breaks out under tension. The anchor has to pass through the screed into the load-bearing concrete. ### Can I anchor the safe in the basement myself? Often yes: concrete slab, SDS hammer, torque, factory holes, a photo for the insurer. Under 80 kg it is doable with a second person. From 150 kg, without lifting gear, it is no longer sensible alone. ### Can I anchor a safe in the ceiling? In the reinforced concrete ceiling you stand on, yes. That is the right base. Hanging it from the underside of the ceiling, no. From below through the basement ceiling into the flat above, almost never. ### May I drill my own holes in the safe? No. Only the openings the manufacturer prepared. Holes of your own damage the protective build and void the certificate. ### Is it enough to use two of four anchor points? No. Set every point provided. Each open point is a leverage advantage for offenders and a point of dispute with the insurer. ### Does a safe plinth have to be anchored as well? The anchors have to reach the building, not only the timber. On Hartmann bases, rear-wall fixing stays mandatory and plinth fixing is optional. A timber plinth with no through-fixing is furniture. ### Wall or floor, which is better? Floor first, because a lever works worst downward. Both, if the cabinet has both sets of holes. Wall alone only where the floor is unsuitable and the wall is load-bearing concrete or solid masonry. --- # S2 certified safe: up to what sum does the insurance pay? > S2 security cabinet (EN 14450): usually insured up to about 20.000 Euro, depending on the tariff. Guide values by class plus the obligations that really count. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/s2-tresor-versicherungssumme · Stand: 2026-07-18 · Tresorrari Redaktion **The short answer:** A security cabinet of level **S2 under EN 14450** is accepted by most household-contents insurers with a **cash/valuables limit of typically up to about 20.000 Euro**. That is a widespread guide value: the binding sum is always set by your own tariff. For comparison: S1 is usually at around 5.000 €, a certified safe grade 0 (EN 1143-1) at about 40.000 € and more. ## The guide values by class | Class | Standard | Usual insurance guide value (private)* | |---|---|---| | S1 | EN 14450 | ca. 5.000 € | | S2 | EN 14450 | ca. 20.000 € | | Grade 0 | EN 1143-1 | ca. 40.000 € | | Grade 1 | EN 1143-1 | ca. 65.000 € | *Guide values. Only your own insurance tariff counts: some insurers scale differently or agree individual sums. ## Why "up to 20.000 €" does not apply automatically The limit is a ceiling, not an automatic rule. Whether the insurance really pays in a claim depends on the **obligations**: - **Anchoring:** An S2 cabinet under 1.000 kg has to be fixed properly, otherwise it is taken along with the contents. Guide: [Anchor the certified safe](/artikel/tresor-verankern). - **Key/code:** The key must not lie within reach next to the cabinet; the numeric code must not be the factory one. - **Proof:** The test plaque (S2 under EN 14450) and the invoice belong with the insurance papers. If these points are not met, the benefit can be reduced or cancelled, regardless of the sum named. ## If more than 20.000 € is to be secured Then the path leads to a **certified safe under EN 1143-1** (grade 0 upward) or to raising the valuables limits in the tariff. From low five-figure values, the talk with the insurer is almost always cheaper than the next class up on its own. How the compensation works in detail is explained in the guide [Cash in the certified safe: what does the insurance pay?](/artikel/tresor-versicherung-bargeld); the classes in detail are shown by the [Security levels guide](/artikel/tresor-sicherheitsstufen). ## Conclusion S2 means in practice usually "insured up to around 20.000 €", but only with a valid plaque, proper anchoring and key discipline, and always within your own tariff. Ask the insurer first, then choose the class. ## Häufige Fragen ### Up to what sum is an S2 certified safe insured? Usually up to about 20.000 Euro in private household contents: a guide value, your own tariff is binding. S1 is usually at around 5.000 €. ### What is the difference between S1 and S2? Both under EN 14450, but S2 is tested more strictly and is insured higher (around 20.000 € instead of 5.000 €). For higher sums it takes EN 1143-1 (grade 0 upward). ### Does the insurance always pay up to the S2 limit? Only when the obligations are met: valid plaque, proper anchoring under 1.000 kg, key not within reach, code changed, and within the tariff. ### How do I secure more than 20.000 Euro? With a certified safe under EN 1143-1 (grade 0+) or by raising the valuables limits in the tariff. From five-figure values the talk with the insurer is worth it. --- # How burglars operate: the truth about the typical burglary > How burglars really operate: target choice, time of day, the weakest point. And the protection order that uses the offenders' time pressure. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/so-gehen-einbrecher-vor · Stand: 2026-07-17 · Tresorrari Redaktion Most burglars are not master thieves from a film, but opportunists under time pressure. The short answer to "How do burglars operate?": they look for the easiest target, get in within seconds through the weakest point (usually a window or a patio door) and are gone again quickly. If you understand how this pattern works, you can break it at exactly the points that count. That is what this page is about: not imitation, but defense. ## The offender picks the easy target Burglaries start with a choice. What gets watched is what is visible from outside: Is there mail in the mailbox? Have the roller shutters been down for days? Is a tool lying in the garden? Is there a rear side nobody can see, with no view from the neighbors? The offender is not looking for the richest home, but for the one with the best balance of effort and risk. That is the good news: if you make your home look like an awkward target, you often drop out of the selection before anyone even puts a hand on a window. ## The time of day surprises most people The picture of the nighttime burglar is only partly right. A large share of residential burglaries happens in broad daylight: when people who work and families are out. A window breaking at midday draws less notice than you think: noises are put down to everyday life, and nobody looks. For protection that means: simulate presence (timers, light), and do not settle into a false sense of safety just because you are "only away briefly". ## The way in runs through the weakest point The decisive point that many people underestimate: the front door is rarely the problem. The most vulnerable spots are **windows and patio or balcony doors on the ground floor**, especially tilted windows and simple, unsecured fittings. For an offender, a tilted window is practically an open window. Exactly how the barrier is overcome, in detail, is deliberately not the subject here. It helps nobody who wants to protect themselves. The important part is the consequence: resistance decides everything. Windows and doors with tested burglary resistance (**resistance class RC2 or higher**), mushroom-head locks and lockable handles stretch the attempt from seconds to minutes. And it is the minutes that make the opportunist give up. ## The three-minute rule Police crime prevention puts it simply: a large share of all burglary attempts is abandoned if the offender is not inside after a few minutes. Time pressure is the real weakness of burglars, and the strongest lever for protection. Every extra second of resistance raises the chance that the attempt fails. That is why security works in layers: outside, resistance at the window and the door, in plain sight an alarm system (the sticker alone deters), and inside (as the last line) a place where the most valuable things stay safe even if someone does get in. ## What happens inside, and why the certified safe is the last defense Once an offender is in, little time is left. The search goes to the known places: bedroom dresser, bedside table, wardrobe, desk. Jewelry, cash, watches and small valuables go into a bag within seconds. Right there it is decided whether the burglary becomes a total loss or an annoying but limited damage to property. A **certified, firmly anchored safe** is the one barrier that still holds when every outer line has been overcome. It costs the offender time he does not have, provided it is chosen and fitted correctly. The guide [Safe security levels](/artikel/tresor-sicherheitsstufen) explains which class is enough for what; the real [case from Gornhofen](/artikel/einbruch-gornhofen-tresor-im-feld) shows why [anchoring](/artikel/tresor-verankern) decides everything: a whole cabinet was taken away there because it was not fixed. ## The order of protection 1. **Look unattractive:** keep the place open to view, simulate presence, do not leave tools lying around. 2. **Build resistance:** burglar-resistant windows and doors (RC2+), mushroom-head locking, never leave a window tilted open. 3. **Show deterrence:** visible alarm technology, motion-activated light. 4. **Secure the last line:** an anchored, certified safe for what is truly valuable. How often burglaries happen in Germany, and where, is shown by our ongoing analysis in [EinbruchsRadar](/radar). ## Häufige Fragen ### When do most burglars break in? A large share of residential burglaries happens during the day, when nobody is home, not at night. A window breaking at midday draws less notice than you think. ### Through which point do burglars usually get in? Through windows and patio or balcony doors on the ground floor, especially tilted windows and unsecured fittings. The front door is rarely the problem. ### What deters burglars most effectively? Time. A large share of attempts is abandoned if the offender does not get in after a few minutes. Burglar-resistant windows and doors (RC2+) create exactly that resistance. ### Does a certified safe help against burglars? As a last line, yes: a certified, firmly anchored safe keeps the most valuable things safe even if someone does get into the house. It costs time the offender does not have. --- # Cash in the certified safe: up to what sum insurance pays > Cash at home: usual payout limits with and without a certified safe, the duty traps (key, anchoring), and what counts in a claim. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/tresor-versicherung-bargeld · Stand: 2026-07-17 · Tresorrari Redaktion Cash at home is allowed, in any amount. Surprisingly little of it is insured. The short answer: without a certified safe, most household contents policies replace cash only up to a low limit, often in the range of about 1,000 to 2,000 euros. In a certified safe the limit rises sharply. How high, exactly, is set by your own policy and by the resistance grade of the safe. If you keep larger sums at home, look at the policy conditions first and then choose the safe, not the other way around. ## The three levels of compensation Household contents policies usually distinguish three situations: | Situation | Usual order of magnitude* | |---|---| | Cash loose in the home (drawer, hiding place) | about 1,000 to 2,000 € | | Cash in a locked security cabinet (S1/S2) | about 5,000 to 20,000 € | | Cash in a certified safe to EN 1143-1 (grade 0 and up) | about 40,000 € and more, rising with each grade | *Guide values: the binding figures are only in your own policy. Some insurers scale differently, require minimum grades, or offer individual agreements. What each class means is explained in the [security grades guide](/artikel/tresor-sicherheitsstufen). Important: these limits apply per loss, not per banknote. And they concern cash: jewelry, watches, and securities have their own, usually higher, valuables limits (often defined as a percentage of the sum insured). ## The duties: where payouts really fail After a loss the insurer checks not only the sum, but conduct. The most common traps: 1. **The key was "within reach".** If you keep the safe key in the desk drawer next to the safe, you risk the payout. Keys belong outside the home, in another secured container, or replaced by an electronic lock. 2. **The safe was not anchored.** Certified safes under 1,000 kg must be fixed properly to the manufacturer's instructions, otherwise the offender simply takes the cabinet. Guidance is in [Anchor a certified safe correctly](/artikel/tresor-verankern). 3. **The code was still the factory setting.** 0-0-0-0 or 1-2-3-4 after years in use does not look good in court. Change the code, and do not write it down anywhere nearby. 4. **No records.** Without proof of where larger amounts of cash came from, settlement drags. Keep withdrawal slips or sales receipts, ideally digital and outside the home. ## What to do after a loss Call the police and file a report (every insurer asks for the case number), do not tidy up, take photos, draw up a list of stolen property, and file it within the policy deadline. The more precisely the contents and the records are documented, the faster settlement runs. It helps to have the safe invoice and the certificate (VdS/ECB-S plate) at hand: they prove the agreed standard of protection. ## Is raising the limits worth it? Many policies let you raise valuables and cash limits for an extra premium, or insure individual items on their own. From low five-figure values, the talk with the insurer is almost always cheaper than the next higher safe grade on its own. What works best is the combination: a matching resistance grade plus an adjusted policy. For very high values (collections, heirlooms), valuables policies are the cleaner solution than any household-contents clause. ## Conclusion Read the policy first, then buy the safe: insurance does not pay according to how secure something feels, but according to resistance grade, duties, and the limits in the contract. If you know the three levels and have keys, anchoring, and records in hand, you are paid in a real loss for what was agreed. ## Häufige Fragen ### How much cash are you allowed to keep at home? Legally, as much as you like: there is no upper limit and no duty to report cash in your own home. Without a certified safe, though, what is insured is usually only a sum in the low four figures. ### Does household contents insurance always pay for theft from the safe? Only within the policy limits, and only if the duties were met: a matching resistance grade, proper anchoring under 1,000 kg, the key not near the safe, signs of burglary, and a report to the police. ### What limit applies to jewelry in the safe? Jewelry has its own valuables limits, often as a percentage of the sum insured. In a certified safe they sit clearly higher than when the jewelry is loose in the home. The exact figures are in the policy. ### Do you have to report your safe to the insurer? Reporting it as a duty, usually not. But if you want to use higher limits, you need proof of the class and the certificate. Putting the invoice and the plate details with the contract papers is worth it. ### What happens if the safe key is stolen as well? If the key was poorly secured in the home, the payout can be reduced or refused. Keys belong outside the home or in a separate security container, or you choose an electronic lock from the start. --- # Fire-resistant certified safe for documents: which class really protects > Fire classes explained: LFS 30/60 P, S 60/120 P and DIS for data media. What the standards test, what belongs inside, where it should stand. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/feuerfester-tresor-dokumente · Stand: 2026-07-17 · Tresorrari Redaktion A home fire quickly reaches 800 to 1,000 °C. Paper, though, chars at about 170 °C, and digital media give up much earlier. The short answer: if you really want to protect documents against fire, you need a certified safe with fire protection certified on its own: the usual classes are S 60 P or S 120 P to EN 1047-1 (60 or 120 minutes of tested protection for paper) or the lighter grades LFS 30 P / LFS 60 P to EN 15659. Burglary protection and fire protection are separate test worlds: a high-grade certified safe can fail in a fire, and a pure fire cabinet can fail in a burglary. ## Fire-protection classes at a glance | Class | Standard | Tested protection | Suitable for | |---|---|---|---| | LFS 30 P | EN 15659 | 30 min., paper | basic protection for documents | | LFS 60 P | EN 15659 | 60 min., paper | documents, a longer fire load | | S 60 P | EN 1047-1 | 60 min., paper, including drop test | important originals | | S 120 P | EN 1047-1 | 120 min., paper, including drop test | maximum requirement | | S 60 DIS / S 120 DIS | EN 1047-1 | as above, but for data media | hard drives, tapes, USB | The difference between the standards is how hard the test is: under EN 1047-1 the heated cabinet is also dropped from over 9 meters (a simulated ceiling breakthrough) and must get through the reheating phase as well. That is why a "real" S 60 P cabinet is more massive, and more expensive, than an LFS model. The DIS classes apply to data media, because there much lower internal temperatures and humidity are already destructive; a P-certified paper safe is therefore NOT a safe place for the backup hard drive. ## What belongs in the fire-protection safe Purchase contracts, wills, and powers of attorney (originals with legal effect), family register, certificates, vehicle registration documents, policies, land-register papers, physical backup media (in a DIS class), a little emergency cash. Rule of thumb for the size: double the paper stack you can see. Folders are bulkier than you think, and the space you need grows over the years. For everything digital, the 3-2-1 logic still holds: the fire-protection safe does not replace an external backup, it protects the originals that exist only once. And for what is extremely irreplaceable, the bank safe-deposit box remains the reference, with the drawback of opening hours. ## Combination cabinets: fire + burglary If you need both (and that is the normal case as soon as valuables sit next to paper), look for dual certification: a resistance grade to EN 1143-1 AND a fire-protection class, each with its own plate. Which burglary class fits which contents is explained in the [security grades guide](/artikel/tresor-sicherheitsstufen); the insurance side is covered in the [cash guide](/artikel/tresor-versicherung-bargeld). Be careful with marketing phrases such as "fireproof" or "fire-retardant" with no class stated. Without a standard and a plate, that is an advertising word, not a promise of protection. ## Choose the spot with fire in mind Fire spreads upward: the ground floor and the basement are thermally kinder than the attic. Spots right next to large fire loads are a poor choice (a garage with gasoline cans, a workshop, a boiler room). And because the fire is then put out, it is worth a look at watertightness: many documents survive the heat and then drown in extinguishing water. Current fire-protection safes seal against that; extra document sleeves cost almost nothing and save a lot. ## Conclusion Fire protection is its own certification, not a side feature: P classes for paper, DIS classes for data media, EN 1047-1 as the harder test against EN 15659. If you want to protect original documents and valuables together, buy dual-certified and put the cabinet where the fire reaches it latest. ## Häufige Fragen ### What does S 60 P mean on a certified safe? 60 minutes of tested fire protection for paper to EN 1047-1, including a drop test from over 9 meters and a reheating phase. The inside temperature must stay below the point at which paper chars. ### Does a fire-protection safe also protect hard drives? Only in the DIS classes (for example S 60 DIS): data media tolerate far less heat and humidity than paper. A paper safe with only a P class is not enough for that. ### Is a fire-resistant certified safe automatically burglary-resistant? No. Fire protection and burglary protection are separate certifications. If you need both, look for dual certification: a resistance grade to EN 1143-1 plus a fire-protection class, each with its own plate. ### Where is the best place to put a fire-protection safe? The ground floor or the basement is thermally better, away from large fire loads such as a garage, a workshop, or a boiler room. Fire spreads upward: the attic is the worst place. ### What belongs in the fire-protection safe? Originals with legal effect (will, contracts, powers of attorney), the family register, certificates, vehicle registration documents, policies, physical backups in a DIS class, and a little emergency cash. For digital material, an external backup stays mandatory as well. --- # Gun cabinet grade 0 and 1: what the weapons law requires > Gun cabinet under the WaffG: grade 0/1 to EN 1143-1, handgun limits by weight, old A/B grandfathering, checks and proof. > Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/waffenschrank-klasse-0-1 · Stand: 2026-07-17 · Tresorrari Redaktion For firearms possession, a clear line has applied since the WaffG amendment of July 2017: newly acquired gun cabinets must reach at least resistance grade 0 to EN 1143-1. The A and B cabinets that used to be usual are no longer enough for new purchases. The basic rules in compact form: long guns and ammunition may be kept in any grade 0 cabinet; for handguns, the combination of resistance grade and cabinet weight decides the permitted number. Binding answers always come from the competent weapons authority. This guide sets out the basics. ## The basic rules by resistance grade | Container | Long guns | Handguns (basic rule) | |---|---|---| | Grade 0 (EN 1143-1), under 200 kg | unlimited | up to 5 | | Grade 0 (EN 1143-1), from 200 kg | unlimited | up to 10 | | Grade 1 (EN 1143-1) and higher | unlimited | unlimited | Ammunition may be stored together with the firearms in the grade 0 cabinet (or higher): a separate ammunition compartment is practical, but for these classes it is no longer a duty. What counts is the certificate: only the [VdS/ECB-S plate on the inside of the door](/artikel/tresor-sicherheitsstufen) proves the grade; official checks ask for it just as they ask for the invoice. ## Grandfathering for old A/B cabinets If, before the cutoff date of the 2017 amendment, you were already lawfully using a security cabinet of the old levels A or B (VDMA 24992), you may keep using it under grandfathering. But: grandfathering is tied to the person and to the use. It ends if the cabinet is passed on or sold, and it does not apply to new license holders. When the cabinet moves to a new household, or when a collection is taken over, a grade 0 cabinet is in practice what is required. For the resale value of old A/B cabinets, that means: close to zero. ## Size, weight, anchoring The classic mistake is a cabinet that is too small. Rule of thumb: the current number of firearms plus two. Telescopic sights need width, long barrels need height, and the next shotgun is sure to come. On weight, the same logic applies as for any certified safe: under 1,000 kg the cabinet must be [properly anchored](/artikel/tresor-verankern) to the manufacturer's instructions, otherwise a prepared team simply takes it away. And the handgun limit "from 200 kg" assumes in any case that the weight is really reached, or that the cabinet is anchored. ## Access: who may get to the firearms? The WaffG requires that only authorized persons have access. In practice that means: key or code must be secured so that neither family members without a license nor visitors can get to them. Electronic locks with separate user codes are the cleanest solution here; keys must never lie "hidden" near the cabinet. Where a cabinet is shared (for example a hunting couple), each person allowed access needs an authorization of their own for the firearms in question. ## Checks by the authority Weapons authorities may inspect storage without a particular suspicion. If you refuse the check, you put your reliability at risk, and with it the license. Keep proof of the certificate, the invoice, and where relevant the proof of anchoring ready in a folder (not in the gun cabinet itself, or the first thing you show the inspection is the open cabinet). ## Do not forget the insurance A grade 0/1 cabinet also covers the insurance side: firearms are expensive, optics often more so. The [usual compensation limits](/artikel/tresor-versicherung-bargeld) apply in the same way, and so do the same duties: anchoring, key discipline, records. ## Conclusion Grade 0 is the entry requirement, grade 1 the no-worry option for handgun owners looking further ahead. Old A/B cabinets are a privilege that is running out, not a selling point. And the two points that really decide checks cost no money: key discipline and complete records. ## Häufige Fragen ### Is a grade 0 gun cabinet enough for handguns? As a basic rule: up to 5 handguns in a grade 0 cabinet under 200 kg, up to 10 from 200 kg. If you own more handguns, or plan to, choose grade 1 straight away: there is no piece limit there. The weapons authority's answer is the one that binds. ### May ammunition go in the cabinet with the firearms? Yes. In containers from grade 0 to EN 1143-1, firearms and ammunition may be stored together. A separate inner compartment is practical, but not a duty. ### May you keep using your old B cabinet? Only under grandfathering: if you were lawfully using it before the 2017 amendment, you may continue. The protection is tied to the person and ends if the cabinet is sold or passed on. ### Does the authority really check storage? Yes, checks without a particular suspicion are allowed. A refusal puts reliability under weapons law at risk. Keeping the certificate, the invoice, and the proof of anchoring ready shortens the visit. ### Does the gun cabinet have to be anchored? Under 1,000 kg of its own weight, proper anchoring to the manufacturer's instructions is the standard, also because otherwise theft of the whole cabinet threatens and insurance questions follow.