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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3504931, member: 90666&quot;]Of course Naville name and the Ars Classica name are both properly owned by NAC - purchased from the original Naville Ars Classica in the 1980s and are thus a valid continuation of the 1920s business. <span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Just as the Seaby name is properly owned by CNG and still used in its UK business. </span></font></span>Naville continues since the 1920s as a publisher and newsagent in central Europe today and maintained control of the name and thus was able to sell it for numismatic purposes when NAC started up; presumably it was Roberto Russo&#039;s idea to found a firm with similar excellent credentials. NAC have certainly lived up to those aspirations. And yet their catalogues are soft cover - understated yet excellent. </p><p><br /></p><p>Glendinings numismatic business was I think taken over by Dix Noonan Webb and Sotheby&#039;s by Morton and Eden. I suspect either firm could probably come to some arrangement to use the older auctioneer names.</p><p><br /></p><p>The S.Pozzi thing was another thing that irritated me. Plainly intended to deceive as it was made to appear to be the collector of original Naville Ars Classica 1 sale in the early 1920s but is actually an entirely different person, which would have been plain if they had spelled the first name in full.</p><p><br /></p><p>What surprises me is that Bank Leu wasn&#039;t a trademarked name, still protected just as Seaby and Naville and Ars Classica were / are. When firms stop trading, usually their assets including their brand names are taken over by successors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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