Antique prices fall, buyers find new era of interest - could a time come when ancient heritage isn’t a trend?Vignette: hula hoop
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A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
About Me
- Paul Barford
- British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.
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- Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities Suffers Budget Cuts
- Statue Found in Dealer's House
- Black Market Antiquities are Fake
- Lenborough Farmer wants More Dosh
- Artefact Hunting Best Practice Thought for 2016
- A New Definition for "Nighthawking" in Britain?
- FLOs on Heritage Crime
- British tabloid and US dealer reveal the Truth abo...
- Telling it Like it is - Rarely
- "History" (artefacts) Found in Merthyr Tydfil
- Sad News from Texas Tragedy
- Stolen Paintings: Dutch Silent Embarrassed Foot Sh...
- Christmas, a Family Occasion
- "Detectorists" Christmas Special
- Ukraine "Stolen Dutch Paintings" Story Changed Again
- Incoherent FLO Interview
- Loopy Bonkers Treasure Boogaloo
- More Muddled Museums
- Is Antiquities Collecting a Fad?
- OMEX Morphs into MOS
- England December 2015
- Actor's Skull to return to Mongolian Government
- Is the German Cultural Property Protection Act to ...
- Lenborough Anglo Saxon coin hoard pledges reach £1...
- Soil Analysis and Artefacts
- Breakfast with Dorothy, Dealers, then the Dodgies
- Damaging the Archaeological Record: The Lenborough...
- False Collecting History Supplied by MD
- 'Culture Crime Watchers Worldwide' Launched
- Nepal Earthquake, no Opportunist Thieving of Cultu...
- "England's origins"
- Boris Johnson and Culture Crime
- Blogging Light
- Dealer goes to Prison
- Bulgarian Customs Prevent Smuggling of Ancient Art...
- Stolen relief of Seti I in London
- Tinfoil Hats ON (Dutch Painting Affair)
- Amineddoleh on Legal Issues in Cultural Heritage T...
- Illiterate Alert: Historiography an Alien Concept ...
- 13th December Martial law in Poland
- Ukrainians or Russians? (Dutch Painting Affair)
- Tekkie Anti-Conservationism
- Metal Detecting Clubs Running up a Huge Debt?
- Governments "have to give treasure-hunters an ince...
- Mr Geerdink, Please Explain (Dutch Painting Affair)
- CNN: "How ISIS sells antiquities to fund terror"
- Judge says BLM did not use excessive force in 2009...
- Oxfordshire, the Bottomless money Pit
- "Treasure trove: Honest hobbyists are winning batt...
- Prize for Nice Speech-reading
- Hidden History: Unrecorded Archaeological Context
- Treasure Acquisitions
- Where did that.... come from? Buying Antiquities
- Archaeology (not Metal Detecting) Changes Understa...
- Words and Illicit Antiquities Market Control
- How Difficult Was That?
- Another Year Gone By
- Nazi War Stuff Excites English Metal Detectorist
- Numismatic Supremecists Silent
- Beard on Archaeology
- Krazy, Krazy World of the Metal Detectorist
- Why ISIS Destroys Cultural Heritage Sites
- Public Perceptions?
- Debunking the ACCP Debunking of a Side-Issue
- "High Time for Europe... to take More Effective Ac...
- "STOP the Talk on Conflict Antiquities"
- Collectors and UNESCO
- Leonardo Patterson, "canny" Dealer Sentenced
- SAFE Founder Awarded
- Metal Detectives Commercial Rally Targets Known Site
- Partnership Goes Wrong?
- "You Boys, Get out your Exercise Books and Pay Att...
- Stolen Paintings and Ukrainian Paramilitaries
- "We encourage the sale of ethically‑acquired Nativ...
- Establishment Figure?
- Self-Absorbed Dealers and the place of coin collec...
- Disorientated Dealers in US Can't see Their Way "T...
- US Calls on Others to do Their Work for them
- French Finance Minister calls for Stricter Control...
- Ludicrous Lies and False Premises in New York 'Th...
- How Well do You Know Your Biblical Cultural Heritage?
- BBC comedy ends in tragedy
- Unprovenanced Artefact "examined recently, and dee...
- An FSA's Views on Archaeology
- Detectorists, Yep....
- Syrian artefacts openly on Sayles
- Who Does?
- Berks, Profits and Trashed History
- Christie's Trying to Get Collectors Interested in ...
- Brodie on Antiquities Supply and Demand
- Deadly Two Wrongs Argument
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A Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting in England and Wales (2018)
I started this counter at midnight of 15th July 2018. Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting.
Related sites
- David Gill - Looting matters
- ECHO Egyptian Cultural Heritage Orgnization
- Elginism
- Erik Nemeth et al. Art World Intelligence
- Ethical Antiquities Collecting: Ancient Heritage
- Global Heritage Fund
- Halte au pillage du Patrimoine Archéologique et Historique
- Heritage Action
- Heritage Key
- Heritage Watch
- Illicit Cultural Property
- It Surfaced Down Under!
- Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Loot blog (Nora Mattern)
- Looting History
- Michael McCullough LLC Blog
- Museum Security Network (Google)
- Nathan Elkins - Numismatics and Archaeology
- Nord on Art
- Pieces of the Past: Ethical Antiquities Collecting
- Protecting China's Archaeological Heritage
- René Teijgeler - Culture in Development
- Research into Crimes against Art Association
- Ricardo A. St. Hilaire - Cultural Heritage Lawyer
- SAFE - Saving Antiquities For EVERYONE
- SAFECorner
- Sam Hardy 'Conflict Antiqiuties'
- Stanford Archaeology Center, Cultural Heritage Resource
- Stanford Cultural Heritage Resource - Chronicle
- The Chasing Aphrodite Blog
- The Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog
- The heritage Journal (Heritage Action's blog)
- The Punching Bag Larry Rothfield
- Things You Can't Take Back
- Trafficking Culture (Glasgow)
- Tumblr - Cultural Security
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Further Information
- AAMD (Association of Art Museum Directors)
- CBA (UK) - current issues: Portable Antiquities
- Code of Practice for "Responsible Metal Detecting" in England and Wales
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer - Ricardo St. Hilaire
- Cultural Security
- European Heritage Network (HEREIN)
- Fighting the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property (ICOM)
- IFAR International Foundation for Art Research
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (UK) - now sadly closed
- International Cultural Property Protection (US Dept of State)
- Interpol - stolen art works
- Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide
- Museum Security Network
- Portable Antiquities Scheme (UK)
- The "Looting Question" Bibliography
- Treasure Trove Unit (UK - Scotland)
- UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
- UNESCO Website
- UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects
Apologists and Propagandists of the Current Form of the No-Questions-Asked Antiquities Trade etc.
- 2015 Petition: "Für den Erhalt des privaten Sammelns [sic]"
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of EGYPT (Docket DOS-2014-0008)
- Cultural Property Observer (Peter Tompa - lawyer)
- Moneta-L (coiney discussion list, mostly US and ancients- biased)
- Unidroit-L (rather moribund 'discussion' group)
- Yahoo Ancient Artifacts discussion group
- Uncleanedcoin Chat List
- The Ancient Art Market (blog, some "art consultant")
- Ancient Coin Coillectors' Guild (US lobby group)
- Ancient Coins & Cultural Heritage (blog, De La Fe - US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coins (Dave Welsh - US part-time coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Collecting (Wayne Sayles - US coin dealer)
- Ancient & World Coin Geek (blog, US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Trade (Jorg Lueke - US coin collector)
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of GREECE (Docket DOS-2010-0339)
- Past Times and Present tensions (John Hooker)
False "Barford" Blogs, Not Actually by Paul Barford
Abbreviations used in this blog
- "coiney" - a term I use for private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
- "heap-of-artefacts-on-a-table-collecting" the term rather speaks for itself, an accumulation of loose artefacts with no attempt to link each item with documented origins. Most often used to refer to metal detectorists (ice-cream tubs-full) and ancient coin collectors (Roman coins sold in aggregated bulk lots)
- "tekkie" - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
- ACCG - Ancient Coin Collectors' (sic) Guild
- CBA - Council for British Archaeology [UK]
- CCPIA (CPIA) - (Convention on) Cultural Property Implementation Act [US legislation]
- CDE - Collection-Driven Exploitation of archaeological sites
- CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
- FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
- HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
- IAPN - International Association of Professional Numismatists
- MENA - Middle East and North Africa
- PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
- PNG - Professional Numismatists' Guild
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNESCO 1970 Convention - Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
1 comment:
Or maybe buyers finally "get it" and stop collecting no questions asked antiquities because it's the right thing to do. Let's hope that is what becomes "the trend" in the future.
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