The public prop registry
Screen Used is a free, public register for film and TV props. Give your prop its own serial number, record who has owned it, and keep its photos, provenance and screen matches together in one place that follows it for life.
The registry has just opened. The first props registered here will be the first entries in the book. Yours could be number one.
What is Screen Used?
Props get sold, swapped and passed down. Paperwork goes missing. Photos end up on old hard drives. Years later nobody can say where a piece came from or who had it.
Screen Used fixes that. When you register a prop you get a serial number that belongs to that one piece. Its record keeps the whole story: where it was used, who has owned it, the photos that match it to the screen, and every change of hands with the date and time it happened.
Anyone can search the registry. Only the current owner can add to a prop's story, and when you sell it you pass the record on to the buyer with a single code.
Each prop gets a unique SUR serial. It's private to you and never shown on the public pages.
Every owner, every handover, each with its date and time, in order.
Add old photos with the date they were taken and they sit in the right place on the timeline.
Auction lots, studio letters, receipts. Keep the paper trail with the prop.
Put your prop side by side with the frame it appears in.
Prices are never shown. Your name only appears if you say so.
How it works
No fees to register. No forms to post. Do it from your phone with the prop in front of you.
Sign up free in a minute. Your account is where your props and their serials live.
Sign up →Add what it is, the film or show, its photos, provenance and any screen-match shots.
Register a prop →Your prop gets its own SUR serial straight away and appears on the public registry.
Look up a serial →Add to the timeline over the years. Selling? Send the buyer a transfer code and the record moves to them.
Accept a transfer →Search Props by name, film, show or character, or pick a franchise. Open any prop to see its photos, its timeline and when it last changed hands. Have a serial from a seller? Look it up to check the record is real.
Inside a record
Open a prop on the registry and you'll see its photos, what it is and where it was used, then its timeline from the day it was made to today. Owner changes are stamped with the date and time. Historic photos sit on the date they were taken.
Own a Screen Used mini display?
Mini displays hold a real piece of a prop with a numbered certificate of authenticity. They stay off the public registry unless you want them there. Sign in, open My props and press Show On Prop Register next to the display.
Check a certificateShow my display on the registry →
Approved resellers design and print their displays in the Display Studio.
Questions
No. Making an account, registering props and searching the registry are all free.
A record shows the prop's story and the evidence its owners have added. Our team reviews records, and each one says whether it has been reviewed yet. It isn't a certificate of authenticity on its own.
So nobody can copy a real serial onto a fake. The owner can see it in their account. If a seller gives you a serial, use Look up a serial to check it against the record.
Open the prop in My props and start a transfer. You'll get a one-time code to give the buyer (or we can email it to them). When they accept it, the record moves to their account and the handover goes on the timeline with its date and time.
Yes. Your name only shows if you allow it. Otherwise the record says "Private collector". Prices you paid are never shown to the public.
Anything made or used for a film or TV production: screen used, screen matched, production made, stunt pieces, costumes, set dressing and more.
It takes a few minutes, it's free, and the story stays with the prop wherever it goes next.