Field note ·
Reading metadata without keeping the marketplace tab open
A collector dossier is a paper habit: contract address, token id, cover credit, and the afrofuturist colourway written in one place.
Marketplace tabs close. A collector dossier is a habit of writing the contract address, token id, cover credit, letter, and afrofuturist colourway on paper that can sit in a drawer with the redeemable receipt.
We do not paste screenshots. Screenshots crop credits and freeze a price that will be wrong next week. We transcribe identifiers you supply and we add the sentences about shared interiors and cloth that the marketplace never wrote.
Keep the dossier with the paper, not with the device you used to buy the token. When Harriet Quinn’s insurer asked for something other than a screenshot, the useful page was the one that named the cover artist and the fact that interiors were shared. The useful page was not the bid history.
If you already hold several Black Panther afrofuturist letters, commission one dossier per variant. Combining them into a single pamphlet makes a later sale messy, because the next holder will want the paragraph that belongs only to their cover.