tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post634917735947134326..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Is Provenance only for "Morons"?Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-58643835133658496042010-08-03T09:43:57.100-07:002010-08-03T09:43:57.100-07:00Those of psychological type ITLG (I think like a g...Those of psychological type ITLG (I think like a goldfish) will perhaps find informative a "reply" on Tim Haines' Yahoo Ancient Antiquities Discussion group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ancientartifacts/message/56748 The rest of us need not bother with it, it adds nothing to the discussion, but goes off on a complete tangent which makes further debate futile (I suspect that was the author's intention, collectors rarely address the actual points made in such debates but simply avoid the issue). <br /><br />Hooker cannot seem to grasp the idea of "provenance" (it is not a "sliding scale" nor a "religious tenet"). He clearly does not understand what is meant here by the no-questions-asked market, nor the point I was making about the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Or if he does, he is pretending not to. <br /><br />This obtuse avoiding of open and face-to-face discussion is totally typical of the approach of almost the entire collecting milieu to any attempt to discuss the issues surrounding no-questions-asked collecting. Ignoring the existence of these problems as they do will not, however, make them go away.Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com