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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 590002, member: 5833&quot;]I can see an auction house describing such things as &#039;From the estate of a lady&#039;.&nbsp; My other favorite is the use of &#039;estate&#039; in a manner that is supposed to be synonymous with &#039;high quality&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not too long ago I notified an auction house that one of the handful of pieces they were offering from &#039;a respected East Coast collector&#039;, this one described as 19th century, looked very much like the work of someone actively working now.&nbsp; Their initial response was to protest about how respectable the consignor was; in the end they withdrew the lot &amp; thanked me for tipping them off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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