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<p>[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 9734478, member: 4654"]IMHO I don't bother with insurance, the insurance company will want to know where it's kept, what sort of alarm you have and then charge you every year and if it ever gets stolen or damaged they will do their very best to get out of paying you. It sounds like you are the same as me, you specialized in a field that not many know about and picked this $5000-$7000 (auction) cameo for not a great deal. Any collector who buys like us will over time acquire some good stuff, if you start insuring it all the cost will quickly become very expensive. Most stolen art is very difficult to sell, people who steal only steal things they can easily sell and can't be recognised where it came from. Have you ever needed to make a insurance claim before? or wished you had had something insured? If the answer is no then I wouldn't bother, I don't brag about what I have or it's value, I don't invite untrustworthy people into my house and I rely on if all the people in a global auction didn't know what it was then a burglar wont know either. [/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 9734478, member: 4654"]IMHO I don't bother with insurance, the insurance company will want to know where it's kept, what sort of alarm you have and then charge you every year and if it ever gets stolen or damaged they will do their very best to get out of paying you. It sounds like you are the same as me, you specialized in a field that not many know about and picked this $5000-$7000 (auction) cameo for not a great deal. Any collector who buys like us will over time acquire some good stuff, if you start insuring it all the cost will quickly become very expensive. Most stolen art is very difficult to sell, people who steal only steal things they can easily sell and can't be recognised where it came from. Have you ever needed to make a insurance claim before? or wished you had had something insured? If the answer is no then I wouldn't bother, I don't brag about what I have or it's value, I don't invite untrustworthy people into my house and I rely on if all the people in a global auction didn't know what it was then a burglar wont know either. [B] [/B][/QUOTE]
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