Sometimes the plants sound too good to be true in a catalogue description.

I keep one at hand to cross-check catalogue descriptions.

And why, according to the most recent catalogue description, has a large front mount been replaced when they were all listed as original five years ago?

If collectors go merely by a catalogue description, an unusual coin could be overlooked.

The auction houses may anticipate an effect on prices, although early and late impressions are already clearly differentiated in catalogue descriptions.

Two Christie's auctions over this period help to clear up uncertainty by the complete catalogue descriptions of some 1 400 lots.

Moreover, catalogue descriptions, most experts say, can often be misleading.

Incidentally, if you see a catalogue description of 'antique' applied to a binding, it usually means exactly the opposite.

Users expect to see information relating to records in one place, whether the 'official' catalogue description or detail added by another user.

In the catalogue descriptions, the courses sound quite similar.