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""Buyers Beware: Surfacing Medici Material" warns David Gill. That's not so much a problem, it's the stuff foisted on the market by less noticeable dealers - like ("Greasy") Luigi Tagliatele and Kostas ("the Snake") Souvlaki in the 1970s - that are the bane of the responsible collector. You see, they never worked out how to operate a Kodak Snappie camera, so there are now no surviving photos of what passed through their filthy thieving hands. While collectors and auction houses can check if objects are like any in the archives of convicted dodgy dealer Medici, its not so easy with the other guys whose record-keeping was less meticulous. I guress that just leaves healthy scepticism towards the sales-spiel of dealers, and proper (responsible) collecting history verification to 'spot-the-dodgy'.
""Buyers Beware: Surfacing Medici Material" warns David Gill. That's not so much a problem, it's the stuff foisted on the market by less noticeable dealers - like ("Greasy") Luigi Tagliatele and Kostas ("the Snake") Souvlaki in the 1970s - that are the bane of the responsible collector. You see, they never worked out how to operate a Kodak Snappie camera, so there are now no surviving photos of what passed through their filthy thieving hands. While collectors and auction houses can check if objects are like any in the archives of convicted dodgy dealer Medici, its not so easy with the other guys whose record-keeping was less meticulous. I guress that just leaves healthy scepticism towards the sales-spiel of dealers, and proper (responsible) collecting history verification to 'spot-the-dodgy'.
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