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Jodi BirkholmYes, please keep in mind that the large catalogues issued by the big guys wind up costing them over $100,000 once all is said and done. As with Jim, I too enjoy having a catalogue I can hold in my hands and take with me wherever I go. The flipside to that, however, is the fact that more information on each lot can be found online (especially the extra pics/zoom-in features). Jim, if I understand you correctly, you state that you have never utilized any of the online features offered by the various auction houses? This is very difficult to believe, but that's how your post came across. If this is indeed the case, you're missing out on so much. Catalogue-perusing is a great for "separating the wheat from the chaff", but you are going into each sale with cataracts over your eyes if this is the only step taken. (Again, I hope something in your post got lost in translation--I can't see anybody in this day and age not using online resources, at the very least as a final precautionary step).