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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4221015, member: 110350&quot;]Thank you!&nbsp; Royal Athena Galleries is still around, and still has an active website. In fact, Jerome Eisenberg, who founded the company in 1942 (he originally dealt only in coins), is still alive and somewhat active the last I heard.&nbsp; (See his C.V. at <a href="http://www.royalathena.com/PAGES/intropages/introduction.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.royalathena.com/PAGES/intropages/introduction.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.royalathena.com/PAGES/intropages/introduction.html</a>.) I also highly recommend Hixenbaugh Ancient Art (<a href="http://www.hixenbaugh.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hixenbaugh.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hixenbaugh.net/</a>), where I have bought a number of antiquities as well over the years, including my two other (intact!) Attic black-figure lekythoi.&nbsp; See the photos I posted at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-but-not-a-coin-artifacts-thread-post-em.307997/page-17#post-4039891" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-but-not-a-coin-artifacts-thread-post-em.307997/page-17#post-4039891">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-but-not-a-coin-artifacts-thread-post-em.307997/page-17#post-4039891</a>.&nbsp; One of these days, I&#039;ll post photos of some of my own ushabtis and other Egyptian antiquities.&nbsp; As I&#039;ve mentioned, I&#039;ve been collecting antiquities on a sporadic basis (when I have the money!)* since about 1981 -- long before I switched from a focus on British coins and historical medals and began actively collecting ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both places (especially Royal Athena) are generally more expensive than some of the other antiquities sellers you might find on the Internet, but you don&#039;t have to worry that you&#039;re buying a fake.&nbsp; In addition, you&#039;ll find that a number of the well-known German coin dealers (for example, Gorny &amp; Mosch and Gerhard Hirsch) also deal in antiquities, and have occasional antiquities auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Just so I don&#039;t give the wrong impression, I am hardly a high-flying antiquities collector -- one of those people who don&#039;t hesitate to drop $100K or more on a single piece!&nbsp; In almost 40 years, the most I&#039;ve ever spent on a single antiquity is about $2,500.&nbsp; And I&#039;ve spent that much only a small handful of times.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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