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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 695216, member: 5066"]Absolutely, I agree 100%. Auction houses main function is selling & marketing, they are "generalists", they know a little about a lot and do not spend the time doing research so, stuff falls through the cracks when handling thousands of objects.</p><p>When they have an object that is "known" to be of great value, they call in a specialist in that particular field to do a write up/research paper on it but not for what they think is an everyday type object.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 695216, member: 5066"]Absolutely, I agree 100%. Auction houses main function is selling & marketing, they are "generalists", they know a little about a lot and do not spend the time doing research so, stuff falls through the cracks when handling thousands of objects. When they have an object that is "known" to be of great value, they call in a specialist in that particular field to do a write up/research paper on it but not for what they think is an everyday type object.[/QUOTE]
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