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In an apparent effort to show his "Cultural Property Observer" blog to be wholly irrelevant to the current situation on the US no-questions-asked antiquities market, the dealers' paid lobbyist breaks his silence to write about (in connection, his tag proclaims, with: "the Greek MOU") the fact that the Greeks might rent out the Athens Acropolis for commercial use (Tuesday, January 17, 2012, "Acropolis for Rent ). Wholly moronic is his opening line:
I would have thought the current situation threatening the whole US dugup coin market would be an ample reason for dealers' paid mouthpieces to stop talking of made-up problems, but addressing the real ones with which the US collector of dugup artefacts on his hands is likely to be faced in the coming year. It is not the "MOU" which is US dugup and undocumented coin collecting's greatest problem any more, when are the ACCG and its camp-followers going to admit that? Or do they believe that in this too, that an ignored problem will simply go away? Like toothache?![]()
In an apparent effort to show his "Cultural Property Observer" blog to be wholly irrelevant to the current situation on the US no-questions-asked antiquities market, the dealers' paid lobbyist breaks his silence to write about (in connection, his tag proclaims, with: "the Greek MOU") the fact that the Greeks might rent out the Athens Acropolis for commercial use (Tuesday, January 17, 2012, "Acropolis for Rent ). Wholly moronic is his opening line:
In a move that will no doubt leave archaeological purists aghast, [...]Who are these mythological "archaeological purists"? Do they really exist, or are they another of those coiney made-up bogeymen with which the coiney lobbyists aim to scare childlike and uncritical collectors? Are these US "archaeological purists" or "Yuropeen" ones?
I would have thought the current situation threatening the whole US dugup coin market would be an ample reason for dealers' paid mouthpieces to stop talking of made-up problems, but addressing the real ones with which the US collector of dugup artefacts on his hands is likely to be faced in the coming year. It is not the "MOU" which is US dugup and undocumented coin collecting's greatest problem any more, when are the ACCG and its camp-followers going to admit that? Or do they believe that in this too, that an ignored problem will simply go away? Like toothache?
