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Collector Care desk

Care for the collection, by hand

The Collector Care desk is a service, free at launch, where the crew lends its hands: verifying a slab, reading a population report, or answering a storage question. You send the details, a person does the work, and the answer comes back by email.

What the desk does

Service 1

Cert verification walkthroughs

We walk you through verifying your slab's certificate with the grader, step by step, or we check the details you send us and tell you plainly what we find.

Service 2

Population report lookups

Send the grader and the cert number. The crew looks it up by hand and replies with what the grader's own report says, sourced and dated. The numbers live in that reply, never on this page.

Service 3

Storage and care guidance

Questions about sleeves, binders, storage, humidity, light, and the everyday handling of a collection. Ask in your own words and get an answer from a person who handles cards daily.

How answers come

Lookups are done by hand and answered by email in the order received. We do not promise a reply day.

For a longer conversation, a free 15-minute consult lives at Ask the Keeper.

Ask the care desk

The crew replies to this email. It is never shown on any public page.

Photo of the slab or item (optional)

No photo yet. Use your camera, or choose a picture you already took.

A photo is optional here. When one rides along, JPG, PNG, or WebP, up to 10 MB.

Care supplies from the shelf