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Posted By: barrysloate

I'm not sure the point of provenance is entirely to show that somebody famous owned a piece. Sometimes famous collectors are not necessarily celebrities. Is a Charlie Sheen provenance important because he was one of the hobby's foremost and most knowledgable collectors, or because he was a famous movie star? Provenance helps trace the path a coin or baseball card has travelled over the years. That information is important in that it shows an expert in his field had the discriminating taste to choose that collectable over an inferior one. If Brittany Spears started collecting baseball cards on a whim, would her provenance be important? I think not.