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title: Editorial policy and valuation method
source: LLB Auction
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# Editorial policy and valuation method

Source: LLB Auction (https://www.llb-auction.com/editorial-policy)

Last updated: 27 October 2026

## What this page covers

LLB Auction is an auction house in Luxembourg. It publishes articles in Insights, valuation pages for categories, artists, maisons and places, and its own results. This page sets out how that content is written and checked, and how the house values an object it is asked about.

## 1. How the articles are written

The articles and valuation pages are signed by Lyna Brahami, Associate Specialist of the house. They are drafted with a language model through the house’s content platform and published under the editorial responsibility of LLB Auction.

Each piece answers one question a collector or an owner asks, in plain words, with the answer first.

An article that relies on outside sources lists them under Sources at its end.

## 2. Figures and prices

The figures about the house (sales held, lots offered and sold, hammer prices) are computed from its own results database. Every result the house states can be checked in its published results, sale by sale and lot by lot.

A price range for an artist or a category describes what comparable works reached at auction. It is a guide to the market and gives no value to a particular object, which only an examination of that object can do.

## 3. The house’s own lots

When a page shows a lot the house has sold or offers, it says so and links the lot or its result. The house earns a commission on the lots it sells, which is the interest a reader should know about when a page invites them to request a valuation or to consign.

## 4. Corrections

Report an error to info@llb-auction.com. A corrected article shows the date of its last update under its title.

## 5. How the house values an object

A valuation request is answered by Lyna Brahami within 48 working hours, free of charge and without commitment. Her answer is an opinion of the price range the object could reach in a sale of the house, given from the photographs and the details the owner sends.

The opinion rests on:

- the photographs: the front, the back, the signature, the marks, the labels and any damage;
- the dimensions, the medium or the materials, and the condition;
- the history of the object: invoices, certificates, earlier valuations, the collections it passed through;
- the results of comparable works the house has sold;
- the demand the house sees from its bidders for that artist, maker or category.

## 6. From the photograph to the sale

Before any object goes to sale, the specialist examines it in person. The examination confirms or corrects the opinion given from the photographs, and the estimate printed in the catalogue follows it.

The reserve, the lowest price at which the object may be sold, and the seller’s commission are agreed in the consignment contract. The house publishes no commission rate.

## 7. Limits of a valuation from photographs

A photograph can hide a restoration, a later signature or a reproduction. When the attribution of a work is uncertain, the house says so and names the certificate, the catalogue raisonné or the expert that can settle it.

The house’s opinion serves a sale at auction. A valuation required for insurance, an estate or tax may call for a certified expert.

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