Every item purchased from the Raab Collection, LLC is guaranteed to be authentic, without time limit, to the original purchaser.

Steven Raab, the firm founder, was a longtime board member of the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Nathan Raab was a longtime member of the Board of Trustees of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Chair of the Committee on Nominations, Chair of the Ad Hoc Governance Committee, and Chair of the Annual Founders Award Dinner. He has lectured to many organizations on the subject of authenticity, among them the Smithsonian, Mount Vernon, and the Ford Motor Company. The Raab Collection counts amongst its clients many prominent private collectors and some of the world’s great manuscript collecting institutions, among them Harvard University, the Library of Congress, and the British Library.

The firm’s principals are consultants to major public and private institutions. Nathan Raab, a regular media presence on the subject of history, is the author of the bestselling book, The Hunt for History (Scribner, March 2020), which has been translated into multiple languages. The Raab Collection is in its fourth decade in business and is a member in good standing of the ABAA, ILAB, and PADA.

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