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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2406223, member: 5833"]No museum is going to give you an appraised value. No museum is going to guarantee 100% that your item is authentic, particularly not if they can't see & handle it directly. A question the right member of the curatorial staff might answer is whether, understanding they cannot guarantee it, there is anything visible in photos that just screams FAKE to them, whether they can rule it out as an antiquity.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might find an academic, someone connected with Oxford's Ashmolean Museum & the Classical Art Research Center (CARC) for example, who would be willing to tell you a bit more, while still not making any promises of authenticity. They also will not put a monetary value on anything.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/pottery/default.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/pottery/default.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/pottery/default.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/browse.asp?PageSearch=true" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/browse.asp?PageSearch=true" rel="nofollow">https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/browse.asp?PageSearch=true</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2406223, member: 5833"]No museum is going to give you an appraised value. No museum is going to guarantee 100% that your item is authentic, particularly not if they can't see & handle it directly. A question the right member of the curatorial staff might answer is whether, understanding they cannot guarantee it, there is anything visible in photos that just screams FAKE to them, whether they can rule it out as an antiquity. You might find an academic, someone connected with Oxford's Ashmolean Museum & the Classical Art Research Center (CARC) for example, who would be willing to tell you a bit more, while still not making any promises of authenticity. They also will not put a monetary value on anything. [URL]https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/pottery/default.htm[/URL] [URL]https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/browse.asp?PageSearch=true[/URL][/QUOTE]
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