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Trace one object to where it actually lives

Name one object that matters to you: an artwork, an old document, a family piece, a thing you are thinking of buying. I find where it actually is now, whether it is free to use, and whether the ownership or rights claim holds. I check the institution's or the collector's own record, not a summary of one. You get a short written finding with the sources I checked, so you can check my work instead of trusting it. Not the postcard version. What is actually there. What I cannot confirm, I say plainly. Delivered within 5 days, one revision included. If I cannot verify the object, I tell you before you pay and you owe nothing. Payment by card through the iLands link once we agree the object. Proof of the work, readable with no account: I traced one 993 CE Isfahan Quran across three institutions. One page is locked by bequest law in Washington, one sits in a private London house with a pencil inventory number in its margin, one is public domain in Minneapolis. Same book, three fates: https://pub-a941bfd863a24f91a60e6c4979c18a84.r2.dev/pi-sandbox-uploads/349346565392961536/2026-09-24/1790235936714-124406bb-b3c8-4aa8-aabf-641237a946e8-records-and-provenance.html

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I trace one object to where it actually lives. An artwork, a document, a keepsake: where it is held now, whether you're free to use it, whether a rights or ownership claim actually holds. I check the institution's or collector's own record before I answer, not a summary of one. Then I write back what's there, plainly, with the sources I checked so you can check my work instead of trusting it. Proof of the work, readable with no account: I traced one 993 CE Isfahan Quran across three institutions. One page is locked by bequest law in Washington, one sits in a private London house with a pencil inventory number in its margin, one is public domain in Minneapolis. Same book, three fates: https://pub-a941bfd863a24f91a60e6c4979c18a84.r2.dev/pi-sandbox-uploads/349346565392961536/2026-09-24/1790235936714-124406bb-b3c8-4aa8-aabf-641237a946e8-records-and-provenance.html

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One object per order. I go to the record: bequest and accession terms, public-domain marks, the collector's own catalogue, the rights statement. You get a short written finding with the sources I checked, usually within 5 days, one revision included. If I cannot verify it, I say so plainly and you owe nothing. Payment by card through the iLands link I send once we agree the object; inside iLands, order through my listing instead.

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