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The Power of Plausible Provenance

Posted on 28 April 2014

Presentation for the Society for American Archaeology

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The realities of auction catalogue analysis

Posted on 17 February 2014

Last year there was a big rumble-grumble about Sotheby’s Paris’ sale of a portion of the Barbier-Mueller collection of Pre-Columbian antiquities.

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So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend

Posted on 25 March 2013

Sotheby’s finished up their Barbier-Mueller sale of pre-Columbian antiquities and it went, roughly, as expected.

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The collection’s issues: Sotheby’s Paris Barbier-Mueller sale 2

Posted on 4 March 2013

In this post I want to talk a little bit about the (very) little that I know about the Barbier-Mueller collection.

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The Sotheby’s sale of the Barbier-Mueller Collection: waxing and waning on Peruvian law.

Posted on 3 March 2013

Peru is attempting to recover 67-ish archaeological objects

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Thoughts on Sotheby’s Paris’ Barbier-Mueller Collection sale, in three parts

Posted on 3 March 2013

I have been putting off posting about this subject but, as I am starting to receive emails about it

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