ON-LINE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY FOR COLLECTIBLES

摘要

An on-line method for issuing a certificate of authenticity (30) for a collectible (34) to a collector where the collector has personally witnessed the collectible (34) being signed. The collector provides information on the collectible (34) via the Internet to a central computer (48) which stores the information for future reference by potential purchasers of the collectible (34) and issues to the collector a certificate of authentication (30) bearing a serialised hologram (32) with bar code and an identical serialised hologram (32') with bar code for attachment to the collectible (34). The collector must sign (38) a statement on the certificate of authenticity (30) that declares, under penalty of perjury, the information that the collector provided regarding the collectible (34) is correct. Subsequent purchasers can access the central computer (48) via the Internet to record their purchase of the collectible (34) or to obtain historical information on the collectible (34).