Part of a thorough estate plan is having information like this recorded before it is needed. Cochran Arts was recently hired to catalog the home of a collector. As we walked through the rooms building a digital database that paired an image of each piece with its identifying information, the husband told us stories about each one, which we also added to the descriptions. He recently passed away and his daughter wrote to thank us for the work we had done. Not only did his children greatly appreciate the cost basis and valuation information as they resolve the estate, but they also loved learning more about their father in the personal history of the pieces.