Showing posts with label registry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label registry. Show all posts
Friday, 4 July 2014

A way forward?

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My previous post about the response to an article in Biblical Archaeology Review has received a lengthy comment (split into two parts) f...
Sunday, 25 May 2014

And what's wrong with that?

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Peter Tompa, a lawyer lobbying on behalf of American coin dealers, enthuses over the coin collection of Eric Newman , an elderly authorit...
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Monday, 17 March 2014

D'oh, how do you solve the problem of undocumented artefacts?

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Peter Tompa, a lawyer lobbying on behalf of American coin dealers, bewails that proposed emergency restrictions on importing Egyptian anti...
Saturday, 15 March 2014

Buyers still not worried about lack of pre-1970s provenance?

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Larry Rothfield, Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, suggests (" Why Christie's Thinks It Can Find Buyers for Antiq...
Thursday, 26 September 2013

Still waiting ...

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Paul Barford has recently mentioned my draft proposal for an  International Antiquities Registry (IAR) . As he points out, it has now been ...
Sunday, 23 May 2010

The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) and Archaeologists

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What is it with the ACCG obsession with archaeologists and feebly trying to please them (see my previous Reaching out? )? The archaeologist...
Thursday, 8 October 2009

Concerned collectors – just a tiny voice in the wilderness?

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Well, my draft proposal for an International Antiquities Registry went down like a lead balloon on the forum I posted it to . It seems ther...
Wednesday, 23 September 2009

International Antiquities Registry (IAR)

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A draft proposal... What is the purpose of creating a registry? Two of the greatest objections most collectors have about the idea of an ant...