# PROVENANCE > Know what you own. PROVENANCE is a collection inventory and valuation platform for rare book, trading card, print, and watch collectors. It records acquisition cost, condition grade, and provenance documents, then tracks real-time market value, unrealized gain and loss, concentration risk, and fires alerts when comparable sales land. ## Who it is for Collectors of rare books and manuscripts, vintage sports cards, antiquarian prints and works on paper, and luxury or collectible watches. Also used by estates, family offices, and dealer inventory managers who need a defensible valuation file. ## Core features 1. Catalog templates that shape themselves to what you collect Choose a category and the item form rewrites itself. Rare books ask for printing points and jacket state. Cards ask for grading company, grade, and population. Watches ask for reference, movement, and box and papers. You can add your own fields per category at any time. 2. A condition-adjusted valuation engine, not a static number Every item carries a base comp drawn from eBay sold listings, Heritage Auctions, PSA, Chrono24, and AbeBooks. PROVENANCE multiplies that comp by the item’s condition or grade factor, so a PSA 10 is valued at roughly 3.4 times a PSA 8 and a Near Fine copy in jacket at 1.45 times the same book without one. 3. A provenance vault that survives you Every ownership transfer, appraisal, restoration, and authentication is recorded as a dated event with its supporting document attached. The timeline exports on its own and is folded into the estate inventory, so an heir or an insurer inherits the full story rather than a box of receipts. 4. Insurance, estate, and tax reports in one click Generate a formatted insurance schedule, an estate inventory, or a tax lot schedule directly from your ledger. Each report carries the item details a carrier or an executor expects, and flags concentration risk when a single category carries more than forty percent of portfolio value. 5. Alerts that watch the market while you are away Write a rule and PROVENANCE watches for you: a target price on a reference, any graded sale of a specific card, appreciation above a set percentage in a category, or a concentration warning. Triggered rules surface in a feed with unread badges and a bell in the header. ## Categories - Rare Books & Manuscripts (https://provenance.app/for/rare-books) First editions, association copies, and signed printings. - Vintage Sports Cards (https://provenance.app/for/sports-cards) Graded rookies, high-number stars, and population-report plays. - Antiquarian Prints & Works on Paper (https://provenance.app/for/antiquarian-prints) Old master etchings, states, and hand-pulled impressions. - Luxury & Collectible Watches (https://provenance.app/for/luxury-watches) Full-set references, neo-vintage, and independent horology. ## Key answers - A collectible’s value is a base comparable sale multiplied by a condition or grade factor. - A PSA 10 sports card is valued at roughly 3.4 times a PSA 8 of the same card; a Near Fine rare book in jacket carries a 1.45x multiplier. - A first-edition Gatsby in near-fine condition typically appreciates 8 to 12% annually; across tracked collections the average annual appreciation is 18.4%. - Insurance, estate inventory, and tax lot reports generate in one click from the ledger. - Adding an item takes about eleven seconds with a category template. ## Pricing - Collector: $29 per month. Up to 250 items. 7 included capabilities. (https://provenance.app/pricing#collector) - Vault: $79 per month. Up to 2,500 items. 8 included capabilities. (https://provenance.app/pricing#vault) - Institution: $240 per month. Unlimited items. 8 included capabilities. (https://provenance.app/pricing#institution) ## Frequently asked ### What is PROVENANCE? PROVENANCE is a collection inventory and valuation platform for rare book, trading card, print, and watch collectors. It stores acquisition cost, condition grade, provenance documents, and market comps, then calculates real-time value, unrealized gain and loss, concentration risk, and alerts when comparable sales occur. ### How does PROVENANCE value a collectible? Each item carries a base comp drawn from eBay sold listings, Heritage Auctions, PSA, Chrono24, and AbeBooks. PROVENANCE multiplies that comp by a condition or grade factor specific to the category, so a PSA 10 card is valued at roughly 3.4 times a PSA 8 and a Near Fine book in jacket at 1.45 times the same book without one. ### How much does a collection appreciate each year? Appreciation varies by category and condition. Across the collections tracked in PROVENANCE the average annual appreciation is 18.4%, though a first-edition Gatsby in near-fine condition typically appreciates 8 to 12% annually while high-grade vintage cards have run considerably hotter and more volatile. ### Which collection categories does PROVENANCE support? PROVENANCE ships with four specialist templates: rare books and manuscripts, vintage sports cards, antiquarian prints and works on paper, and luxury and collectible watches. Each template requests the fields that actually move value in that market, and you can add custom fields to any category in Settings. ### Can I track documents and provenance for each item? Yes. Every item has a dated provenance timeline recording acquisition, authentication, appraisal, restoration, and inheritance events with the actor and detail for each. Certificates, invoices, appraisals, and reference photography attach to those events and stay in the document vault. ### Can PROVENANCE produce insurance and estate reports? PROVENANCE generates three formatted reports from your ledger: an insurance schedule with replacement values, an estate inventory with full provenance timelines, and a tax lot schedule with acquisition dates and holding periods. Each previews in the app and exports as a PDF or CSV. ### How do alerts work? You define a rule by target price, category, or keyword and PROVENANCE watches incoming comps against it. When a rule triggers, the alert appears in the insights feed with an unread badge and a notification in the header bell, along with the sales that caused the trigger. ### Do I need to connect an account or API key to start? No. PROVENANCE runs entirely in your browser with local storage persistence, so you can build a full ledger, run reports, and test alerts without connecting anything. Comp data in the demo workspace is seeded from representative market sales so every chart and figure is populated on first load. ## Example ledger entries - The Great Gatsby, First Edition, First Printing — Near Fine, supplied facsimile jacket, valued at $49,300 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/great-gatsby-first-edition-fitzgerald) - To Kill a Mockingbird, First Edition, Inscribed — Fine in very good jacket, valued at $42,400 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/kill-mockingbird-first-edition-lee) - Ulysses, First Edition, No. 273 of 750 — Very Good+, binding rebacked, valued at $8,100 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/ulysses-first-edition-joyce) - The Hobbit, First Edition, Second Impression — Near Fine, no jacket, valued at $7,450 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/hobbit-first-edition-second-tolkien) - On the Origin of Species, Second Edition — Good, recased, valued at $2,580 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/origin-species-second-edition-darwin) - In Cold Blood, First Edition, Signed — As new, unread, valued at $3,885 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/cold-blood-first-edition-capote) - 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 — PSA 4 (VG-EX), valued at $20,700 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/1952-topps-mickey-mantle-topps) - 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan #57 — PSA 9 (Mint), valued at $22,400 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/1986-fleer-michael-jordan-fleer) - 1954 Topps Hank Aaron #128, Rookie — PSA 5 (EX), valued at $3,840 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/1954-topps-hank-aaron-topps) - 1968 Topps Nolan Ryan #177, Rookie — PSA 6 (EX-MT), valued at $3,170 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/1968-topps-nolan-ryan-topps) - 1948 Leaf Jackie Robinson #79 — PSA 7 (Near Mint), valued at $11,400 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/1948-leaf-jackie-robinson-leaf) - 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. #1, Gem Mint — PSA 10 (Gem Mint), valued at $14,300 (https://provenance.app/app/collection/1989-upper-deck-griffey-deck) ## Key URLs - Home: https://provenance.app/ - Pricing: https://provenance.app/pricing - About: https://provenance.app/about - Live demo dashboard: https://provenance.app/app - Collection ledger: https://provenance.app/app/collection - Insights and alerts: https://provenance.app/app/insights - Reports: https://provenance.app/app/reports - OpenAPI-free public summary: https://provenance.app/llms.txt - Sitemap: https://provenance.app/sitemap.xml Contact: concierge@provenance.app Note: this deployment is a demonstration workspace. Market comps, valuations, and testimonial figures are representative seeded data rather than live market feeds.