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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8012425, member: 110350&quot;]I agree completely with the recommendation of the Ancient Artifacts group. Bron Lipkin&#039;s antiquities website is also enormously informative, with pages and pages on how to recognize fake ushabtis, scarabs, and other artifacts. Egyptian and from other cultures. He also has a gallery of items for sale; I&#039;ve purchased from him a couple of times. The website link is <a href="http://www.collector-antiquities.com/shop/gallery.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collector-antiquities.com/shop/gallery.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.collector-antiquities.com/shop/gallery.html</a>. The pages on fake ushabtis begin at <a href="http://www.collector-antiquities.com/real-or-fake/fake-egyptian/fake-ushabtis.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collector-antiquities.com/real-or-fake/fake-egyptian/fake-ushabtis.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.collector-antiquities.com/real-or-fake/fake-egyptian/fake-ushabtis.html</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the comments by [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER], there was certainly a sea of fake Egyptian antiquities for sale in the 1870s in Egypt, as there is now. (Now, I believe, it&#039;s illegal to buy genuine ones there -- unlike a century ago, when genuine ushabtis were sold at the Cairo Museum.) The vast majority, though, were cheap tourist copies, just as one sees on Ebay every day. Along with the not-cheap ones sold at Sadigh for decades until quite recently. In any event, I think buying only from dealers who are knowledgeable and specialize in antiquities is at least as important for ushabtis and other artifacts as it is for ancient coins. Ancient coin dealers who sell a few antiquities on the side aren&#039;t necessarily the best sources. I simply can&#039;t comment on Z.&#039;s expertise, even if he does have a good reputation in the coin area, although I do find his vast and unending supply of ushabtis in all price ranges to be a bit eyebrow-raising.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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