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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 4284370, member: 5066&quot;]True! &amp; although I trash auction houses regularly and perhaps unfairly their function is really marketing, not scholarship. Add in time constraints, putting a catalog together, bla bla bla and it&#039;s easy to see how many details fall thru the cracks.</p><p>Another factor is that most of the researchers are kids, fresh out of school with an Arts History major with many working their first job.........stuff gets missed!</p><p>Plus, smaller houses do not have the resources that a Sotheby or Christie&#039;s have, where they can hire nationally known experts in furniture, silver, glass, etc on staff to oversee particular collecting categories.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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