VIP Fan Auctions - The Archive
One of the key hurdles to overcome in finding the former offerings of VIP Auctions is the lack of an archive. Knowing where things originate is an important part of provenance, and not having an archive, particularly with realized prices and other context, makes preserving our cultural heritage more difficult than it ought to be.
After a considerable amount of time, we have been able to assemble and reconstruct data from available online, publicly-accessible sources for this.
The first phase was to assemble sources and recover the content for presentation and preservation from 2021 to present; VIP's eBay listings are still a bit troublesome, but those will be tackled in later phases.
To see the progress to date, click here.
There will be missing prices, descriptions, and other bits of context, so if you are a purchaser of any of the VIP lots that are on the site, you are welcome to use our correction submission form located on the listing for the auction lot.
More to come!