I don’t know what the buyer thinks he’s getting, but when you can only boast about a set of paperwork and metal numbers, it doesn’t seem worth the postage, quite honestly. No wonder the historic market is such an investor’s paradise - auction prices are once again healthy, many models are a sure bet, and like anything that costs tens of millions of pounds, the soul of the art utterly disappears. It’s too precious, too serious at that point, the fear of wearing the commodity out through use paralyses its owner.