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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4534756, member: 5833"]Good on them. Auction houses are not always so keen to know anything that might bring down the value of an item. Considering you wrote a whole dissertation on the topic, hope they & the seller appreciate it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did once get an auctioneer to reconsider a consigned cameo after pointing them to evidence that a supposedly 19th century piece was really commissioned in the later 20th. They initially protested that the consignor, 'an East coast collector', was highly respected, but had the sense & integrity to recognize what the evidence was telling them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4534756, member: 5833"]Good on them. Auction houses are not always so keen to know anything that might bring down the value of an item. Considering you wrote a whole dissertation on the topic, hope they & the seller appreciate it. I did once get an auctioneer to reconsider a consigned cameo after pointing them to evidence that a supposedly 19th century piece was really commissioned in the later 20th. They initially protested that the consignor, 'an East coast collector', was highly respected, but had the sense & integrity to recognize what the evidence was telling them.[/QUOTE]
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