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Originally Posted by bobfreedman
I had this discussion with Christies and they said that many of these photos originally had PSA/DNA letters attached to them. However, Christies did not want to "advertise" or market these other third party grading companies and decided to run the auction without them. Did it cost money to the consignor ultimately? I think we can all agree on that it did but, Christies chose to do it a certain way and let the chips fall where they may.
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I noticed this with one of the items (not a picture) that I won. When I picked it up, it was from the Merkin collection, and had LOA's etc., which were not mentioned in the listing.
I was able to find when the listing had sold at Hake's so I had assumed the authentication was included going in...