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Scott Forrest...but it would take a lot of work. A few of us discussed this at one point and considered taking the following approach: design a standard format spreadsheet for collecting data, then each person take a stack of auction catalogs and start transferring data to the spreadsheet.
It would take a while, but I think it would be a reasonable goal to at least build a database containing detail about cabinets and cdv's sold in auctions over the last ten or so years - you could also include scanned images from the catalogs for future comparisons (items sold multiple times would contain info for each auction they appeared in).
I don't have the time to head such a project, but would certainly be willing to help with "data collection" design and going through old catalogs.