Archive for the ‘Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues’ Category
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Dealer Dikman's Stock Returns to Cyprus
http://paul-barford.blogspot.nl/2013/03/dealer-dikmans-stock-returns-to-cyprus.html
March 19, 2013
Paul Barford
Samarcheolog notes that items seized in the investigation of smuggling in the 1990s have finally been returned to Cyprus by Germany ('Cyprus: return of tens of millions’ worth of conflict antiquities, looted from churches in occupied areas', Conflict Archaeology March 19th). Some 214 artefacts ...
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Friday, March 8th, 2013
Lots of Fakes on the Market
http://paul-barford.blogspot.nl/2013/03/lots-of-fakes-on-market.html
March 8, 2013
Paul Barford
Still on the subject of fakes, and the limitations of a collector merely 'trusting the dealer' in the case of 'paperless' objects, are also the subject of an interview published today with a dealer in Far Eastern art. According to dealer Michael ...
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Monday, June 4th, 2012
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
Focus on the Ka Nefer Nefer "Collection History" (1) ("Here Zakki, you can have this")
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2012/04/focus-on-ka-nefer-nefer-collection.html
April 8, 2012
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The collection history of the mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer currently in the St Louis Art Museum is crucial to the SLAM claim to the object. The mask was excavated by Muhammed Zakaria Goneim in 1952 in a ...
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
St Louis Art Museum "Looking After" Ka Nefer Nefer?
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2012/04/st-louis-art-museum-looking-after-ka.html
April 8, 2012
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Just how well-looked after is the Ka Nefer Nefer mummy mask in St Louis Art Museum? I was struck by an old photo of the object, which gave the face a very apprehensive look. I then tried to find out where ...
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