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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 357539, member: 5066&quot;]There is a flip side to that scenario as well. Several years ago at a small auction house in Asheville NC there was a 17th century american blanket chest in very poor condition. The top was replaced, the feet were totally gone but, the front 3 carved panels? as soon as i saw them i realized this chest was carved by Thomas Dennis, America&#039;s most celebrated 17th century joiner. I contacted a dealer i know who deals in early stuff, no, not Dennis they said because of this, that &amp; the other thing.</p><p>Back to research i went, I was 99% sure it was Dennis but that still left 1% so at 5 a.m. that morning, i did a very stupid thing. I fired off an email to a leading scholar on Dennis and his work, 5 mins later i got an email back saying yes, it was in fact a piece built by Dennis, 5 mins after that he published it on his Blog! with pics, my research, the whole 9 yards!</p><p>So, after i in effect alerted every old furniture person in the entire nation, a beat up old chest, basically a fragment, at an obscure country auction that had an estimate of 1-3k sold on sale day for $23,000.00 USD</p><p>GOOD JOB JAMES! You IDIOT! You just threw away a Thomas Dennis chest![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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