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Just curious, but how do you get in the loop on the ancient manuscript trade? It's not even an area of work I have ever thought about before.
by awhitty 12y ago
Just curious, but how do you get in the loop on the ancient manuscript trade? It's not even an area of work I have ever thought about before.
- existencebox 12y agoPotentially unrelated, but I had some very brief conversations with a paleontologist I worked for a while back (working for a very respectable public institution) about black market fossil trade; it's VERY common (and often fronted through "legitimate" fossil/mineral traders) and if you're at all in the academic side of obtaining these sorts of items, you very readily run into people obtaining them for many sources, and get a better view of the "flow" of these items. I would imagine similar fields (in terms of dealing with "historical" items of value) have similar black market systems.