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YOU ARE HERE:>>REAL or FAKE> Museums also make mistakes page 4

As I said on the previous page:

I certainly don't mean to carp about academic experts getting it so wrong now and then.

We all make mistakes. Every collector has bought fakes and every serious dealer has unknowingly sold fakes.

The point is, let's be open about this and try to share knowledge and learn from our mistakes! Don't hide them away!

Here is a really sad mistake.

Someone contacted me  (anonymously) to say that I had got it very wrong in showing images of this piece and saying it was not ancient.

Told me I didn't know what I was talking about because he or she had seen this ushabti in one of the Karpeles Museums.

The one in Buffalo I think.

http://coactivedreamsgallery.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/walk-like-egyptian.html

http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/

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Here it is.

It purports to be a stone ushabti for King Ahmose.

Shown next to it is the one in the British Museum.

Did they buy this direct from the well known expert and purveyor of fine antiquities in Manhattan, New York ?

$3500. But he is well known to be very generous with discounts.

Has surprsingly  missed the fact that it is meant to be for a specific person, a king and rather earlier than stated.

Several versions are avaiable!

They appear to have more than one.

Look at the inscriptions  too.

One wonders if they received the certificate of authenticity for this one !

Note what it states. "long before written history..." !

They could have saved themselves a lot of money by buying one on eBay!

But, as you will have seen if you visited those websites, it gets worse!>>>>>