carefully, you could find correctly priced items.
The problem with the high prices is, as one seller explained, that
items are becoming almost impossible to find: exports are forbidden,
museum are buying and collectors are not reselling.
The incredible prices at auctions at Sotheby and Christie tend to
confirm that prices can only go up?
--- In Ancientartifacts@yahoogroups.com, Dianelos Georgoudis
<dianelos@...> wrote:
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> BAAF is the largest antiquities fair in the world and offers an
excellent opportunity to see in one place so many fine items for
sale. Especially useful for a newbie who wants to learn what is
available and who is just starting to distinguish authentic items
from fakes. I also found gallery owners to be uniformly nice and
talkative people. On the other hand I found prices to be so high as
to be a turn-off. Indeed some were sky-high. For example a Minoan
bronze idol, no larger than my small finger, was offered for 70,000
Euros. A (very fine) Cycladic idol was offered for 390,000 Euros. I
understand these are rare items, but still. I heard several times
about items being sold to museums. BTW there are two BAAFs; one in
June in Brussels and one in November in Basel.
>
> Dianelos
>
> --- On Tue, 6/10/08, rumballus <joyeric6770@...> wrote:
> From: rumballus <joyeric6770@...>
> Subject: [Ancientartifacts] How was the BAAF
> To: Ancientartifacts@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 3:48 PM
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> Hello,
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> For all the people that were lucky enough to make it to the BAAF
this
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> year. How was it? Were the prices strong? Anyone want to show off
what
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> they picked up there?
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> Eric
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