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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 906465, member: 7724"]don't use Thieme - Becker. I once gave a collection 50 to 60 items - of paintings, aquarelle, graphics to be auctioned in Dresden because they were from the collection of an artist that fled to Switzerland in 1944. the auction house - all people brought up in the GDR - worked with it - complete pre-war krappo of the worst ! not brought up to today's informations, never updated during the GDR era. missing paintings of Dresden and Meissen artists I brought them were not known. </p><p>in the end I threw half of it in the dump because I was so fed up. </p><p>I made a substantial gain anyways because the artist's son knew nothing about art and tried to sell them via a friend of his in Northern Italy and was refused...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 906465, member: 7724"]don't use Thieme - Becker. I once gave a collection 50 to 60 items - of paintings, aquarelle, graphics to be auctioned in Dresden because they were from the collection of an artist that fled to Switzerland in 1944. the auction house - all people brought up in the GDR - worked with it - complete pre-war krappo of the worst ! not brought up to today's informations, never updated during the GDR era. missing paintings of Dresden and Meissen artists I brought them were not known. in the end I threw half of it in the dump because I was so fed up. I made a substantial gain anyways because the artist's son knew nothing about art and tried to sell them via a friend of his in Northern Italy and was refused...[/QUOTE]
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