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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8334996, member: 110350&quot;]I agree that the estimates are very optimistic, but I don&#039;t think that the minimum bids are unreasonable. Compare the minimum bids for the Greek vases -- keeping in mind that there&#039;s a premium for this kind of provenance -- with the prices charged for Greek vases by a well-known antiquities dealer here in NYC, from whom I&#039;ve made a number of purchases over the years: <a href="http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/gallery.cfm?category=Greek%20Art" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/gallery.cfm?category=Greek%20Art" rel="nofollow">http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/gallery.cfm?category=Greek Art</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect that the best pieces were sold in the institutional auction last year. </p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t be bidding on anything myself; the Greek vases are all a bit too expensive for me.&nbsp; Some of the terracotta &quot;Tanagra-ish&quot; heads have minimums I could afford to bid, but I already have enough similar pieces of my own, all previously posted here. Besides, some of mine are actually nicer, I think! Compare, for example, the &quot;grotesque&quot; head at <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/exhibited-head-of-a-grotesque-hellenistic-period--c-5f445159a2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/exhibited-head-of-a-grotesque-hellenistic-period--c-5f445159a2" rel="nofollow">https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/exhibited-head-of-a-grotesque-hellenistic-period--c-5f445159a2</a> with the one I posted at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/some-antiquities-i-havent-previously-posted.374223/#post-5549229" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/some-antiquities-i-havent-previously-posted.374223/#post-5549229">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/some-antiquities-i-havent-previously-posted.374223/#post-5549229</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t understand why anyone would bid on the 19th century fakes and pastiches, at any price![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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