Art dealer Joseph Duveen used to say "When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheap". These don't seem cheap to me, but the quality...
I guess I'm in between you and the cultural property nuts! Would it be OK to cremate a Van Gogh, as on Japanese billionaire threatened to do? Or...
It's possible that people could be using forwarding services from other countries to evade local duties. Maybe a zealous inspector or auditor...
There were certainly some intemperate comments that I wouldn't have expressed the same way. But I think there was some legitimate debate here too,...
There's a good chance that this is a legal requirement. Christie's and Sotheby's won't let you bid until you've done the same money laundering...
Those Everyman books are great. Cheap in their day, and can still be picked up for peanuts, but really nicely produced. I love the texture of the...
Or get a fake made into a ring. They deserve it!
It's certain to damage the coin. Don't do it. But especially don't do it with the countermarked coin. That one is really special and it would be a...
And I bet they use kindles rather than leather-bound manuscripts. Tsk, philistines ;-)
Oh, just another peculiar and tragic allergy some people have.
Just don't try that with cat allergies.
Oh no! That sounds terrible. I can't imagine being allergic to something I love, like books or cats.
A rather brusque receptionist ordered me to sit down as I tried to linger over the shelves!
Viewing at Naville today. There are a few more bays like this, and they told me that these are just 'the books that they don't use much' . The...
Delighted that the same coin had been chosen to illustrate Mary Beard's TLS article about ancient elections today:...
... other possibility is lots of fakes coming to market, though I don't like to think about that...
A dealer told me that a vast collection was given an export license from Turkey a few years ago so there are a lot on the market now.
Excellent purchase, and I've had good experience with GIN.
Beautiful toning, and you're lucky to get the full scene with the casting of the vote. So many are off-centre, like mine.
Update: I've ordered some books from Amazon that cover Parthia in passing. Shore's book is way too expensive, annoyingly. David Sellwood's 'An...
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