cels have no intrinsic value nor are they legal.
Its not like you can say oh this golf club or
Grace Family wine is currently valued at $1230.
and obtain a policy that can cover it and
additional future value. Cels at best can be
classified as novelty items and coverage IF ANY
would vary from state to state. You also might
want to email dealers directly and ask them
privately since they too must cover their
merchandise somehow, lest a fire break out and
their whole $100k investory go up in a blaze of
glory.
Also check with Nolo Press Self-Help Legal books
at the nearest bookstore. I personally don't
insure my cels, they are expensive BUT these
aren't investments in any sense of the word
"investment". If they can be insured its
reasonable that you'd only get what you
originally paid (with plenty of documentation
mind you xerox the cels and the receipts) for it
UNLESS there is additionally coverage available
for novelty art items like cels.
Remember these aren't like Disney or Flisher
cels, these type of cels have not and more likely
than not aren't catalogued anywhere. Even
expensive as hell hanken mono's which big
collectors like Yann or Curt got aren't recorded
as sellable licensed merchandise. Why? B/c if
anyone recalls CELS and HANKEN MONOS ARE ILLEGAL.
You and I do NOT own cels nor the image nor the
use of them. They are legally owned by the
companies that created them. So once again how
you'd insure them since they are NOT license
products I wouldn't know, and in all honesty I
doubt you can & personally I wouldn't bother. |