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@aol.com> wrote: From: rumballus <joyeric6770@aol.com> |
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