Re: [Ancientartifacts] RE: Tim can we stop the posts that are going on... We are all tired of this junk...Either throw these people off OR start Moderating these people...

Dealer David Liebert (of timemachineco.com) adds his two cents.

 

Can I ask both you and Kim why you regard it as "natural" that there should be any "flaming" at all when adults - even if from different backgrounds - discuss the serious issues which do, whether you want to admit it or not, face portable artefact collecting today? 

 

These problems are not going to go away, no matter how much aggressive posturing some of you adopt and how abusive you are towards those who point them out, or try to sweep them under the carpet.

David Liebert states that there is really "no common ground". Is that so? It seems to me that its dealers who are saying this. The people making money who'd prefer their clients not to have crazy notions like asking where those cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals and wearable Byzantine crosses actually come from. My understanding is however that the collectors do see a common ground between what they are engaged in the hobby for, not "money", but like archaeology an understanding of past lives and experiences.

 

To what does Nancy (or is it Earl?) Keefer think I should surrender? What is it we should surrender? Is it "good practice" I have been criticising, or bad practice?

 

Paul Barford

 

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