ANTIQ INDEX — the market's instinct, made numbers.
Price indices by category, seasonal reports and a personal price-watch. The comparable-lots engine that already values an object begins to measure the whole market.
WHAT'S INSIDE THE INDEX
Categories over time
Furniture, lighting, bronze, mirrors: the movement of average prices across comparable lots. You can see what's rising, what's holding, what's leaving the market.
Seasonal analytics
What's moving and why: a public report each season, a category breakdown for subscribers. Not a forecast, but a picture of the market today.
Price-watch
A collection and a single object under watch: today's price next to the price paid. Already working in the Cabinet of Rarities.
Data for the trade
Exports and an API for dealers, insurers and auction houses — a later stage, as the data accumulates.
A MARKET THAT RAN ON INSTINCT
The market was read by instinct. Now instinct has numbers.
For decades the price of an object rested on the memory of a few: someone recalled what a similar piece went for last season. It worked, but it wasn't checked. The index doesn't cancel the appraiser's instinct — it supports it: the same comparable-lots engine that reads a single object begins to measure the whole market.
From object to market
The engine values an object against dozens of similar sales. Gathered by category, you see not one price but the movement of a whole segment.
A support, not an oracle
The index shows where the market has been and where it stands now. Where it goes is still decided by knowledge; the numbers only keep memory from misleading you.
Watch, don't rush
You can put an object under watch and follow its price calmly, over years. The point is to understand whether a collection holds value — not to hurry a sale.
TIES ACROSS THE ECOSYSTEM
Three collection accounts
Your personal slice of the index: what the collection holds today and how it has changed.
How a price is figured
The same comparable-lots engine — in every object card.
Season reports
The seasonal analytics comes out as writing, open to read.
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